Scottish Geographical Magazine, Volumes 41 à 42Royal Scottish Geographical Society., 1925 |
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Page 289 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 219 - And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
Page 219 - In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness ; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness. 3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain ; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
Page 227 - I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and find it hard to believe. The names, the shapes of the woodlands, the courses of the roads and rivers, the prehistoric footsteps of man still distinctly traceable up hill and down dale, the mills and the ruins, the ponds and the ferries, perhaps the standing stone...
Page 333 - Peters escaped, glad to be elsewhere and questioning for the first time in his life the dictum that, if you want a thing well done, you must do it yourself.
Page 108 - Primarily Kenya is an African territory, and His Majesty's Government think it necessary definitely to record their considered opinion that the interests of the African Natives must be paramount, and that if and when those interests and the interests of the immigrant races should conflict, the former should prevail.
Page 271 - ... creation of large industrial centres with workers completely divorced from food production would be an entire innovation of very doubtful desirability; it appears most unlikely to occur. The African man, and still more the woman, is firmly attached to the soil, and the whole fabric of social organization is based upon the right to cultivate ; it thus seems probable that the native will always aim at having his own home among his own crops, whether in a distant village, or as a 'squatter
Page 219 - Ye looked for much, and lo it came to little ; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why ? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine House that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
Page 270 - African, since it has tended to regulate and equalise the extreme fluctuations resulting from the success or failure of the harvest. Whereas in former years a bad season might entail literal starvation for great numbers, it is now largely mitigated by the possibility of work on a property that provides foods as well as money ; while improved transport consequent upon economic development has also done much to ease the situation created by a bad harvest. ' In another direction the native benefits...
Page 263 - Africa we have a population of 12$ millions, as against over 220 millions in British India. Even in British West Africa, which has double the population for half the area of East Africa, the population is still sparse. The following table of population densities is taken from the Report of the East Africa Commission : (1) Transkei (Cape Colony Native Reserve) . . • • 59 per square mile. (2) Nigeria 53 (3) Gold Coast (Colony only) 50 „