Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern AfricaR. Carter, 1850 - 406 pages |
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... colonists -Awful retribution - Kafir mission abandoned CHAPTER III . Dr. Vanderkemp's mission commenced among the ... colony - Mr . Faure's affecting statement - Review of missions to the Bushmen -Plan recommended - The Bushmen and ...
... colonists -Awful retribution - Kafir mission abandoned CHAPTER III . Dr. Vanderkemp's mission commenced among the ... colony - Mr . Faure's affecting statement - Review of missions to the Bushmen -Plan recommended - The Bushmen and ...
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... colony -Cornelius Kok - Commencement of labours - First interview with Africaner - His ancestry - Oppressions - Revenge - The ca- tastrophe Africaner's escape to the Orange River - War with the Berends - A testimony - Africaner attacks ...
... colony -Cornelius Kok - Commencement of labours - First interview with Africaner - His ancestry - Oppressions - Revenge - The ca- tastrophe Africaner's escape to the Orange River - War with the Berends - A testimony - Africaner attacks ...
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... colony of the Cape of Good Hope . " The countries extending throughout by far the greater portion of the vast surface just mentioned , are , as regards soil and capabilities , among the finest in the world ; but the population of the ...
... colony of the Cape of Good Hope . " The countries extending throughout by far the greater portion of the vast surface just mentioned , are , as regards soil and capabilities , among the finest in the world ; but the population of the ...
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... colony , till prevented by a desert country , beyond which lay the Damaras ; and then again they proceeded from Little Namaqualand , eastward , along the cooling banks of the Gariep or Orange River , richly fringed with overhanging ...
... colony , till prevented by a desert country , beyond which lay the Damaras ; and then again they proceeded from Little Namaqualand , eastward , along the cooling banks of the Gariep or Orange River , richly fringed with overhanging ...
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... colony ; and from the oldest traditions we can find among the Corannas and Namaquas , who are the unmixed Hot- tentots , as also from the Bechuanas , it may be demonstrated , that they existed a wandering people without homes , or ...
... colony ; and from the oldest traditions we can find among the Corannas and Namaquas , who are the unmixed Hot- tentots , as also from the Bechuanas , it may be demonstrated , that they existed a wandering people without homes , or ...
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Africaner Africaner's animal appeared arrived attack Barolongs Batlapis Batlaros Bauangketsi Bechuanas Berend bushes Bushmen called Cape Town cattle character chief Christian clouds colony Corannas course dark desert distance Divine Dutch language enemy eyes father fearful feel fire frequently giraffe Gospel Graaff Reinet Griqua Town ground Hamilton hand hear heard heart heathen heavens hills horses Hottentots human hyenas inhabitants journey Kafirs killed king Kuruman River labours language leaving lion Lithako living London Missionary Society look Mahura Makaba Mantatees miles mind mission missionary Morimo morning Mothibi mountains Namaqua-land Namaquas natives neighbouring never night object obtain Orange River oxen party passed Philippolis plain present prey rain rain-maker reached reason remarked replied savage scarcely seen seized sent sionary soon soul spear spot station thing tion traveller tribes village wagon warriors Waterboer women Zak River
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Page 131 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand : for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 371 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone...
Page 183 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 31 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence ; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes." Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Page 95 - A region of drought, where no river glides, Nor rippling brook with osiered sides ; Where sedgy pool, nor bubbling fount, Nor tree, nor cloud, nor misty mount, Appears to refresh the aching eye : But the barren earth and the burning sky, And the blank horizon, round and round, Spread — void of living sight or sound.
Page 78 - In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Page 102 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings ; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 19 - ... advanced, romping and playing together, the children of nature, through the live-long day, become habituated to a language of their own. The more voluble condescend to the less precocious, and thus, from this infant Babel, proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases, joined together without rule, and in the course of a generation the entire character of the language is changed.
Page 203 - But in the whole previous and subsequent context the apostle is speaking of that ' preaching of the cross ' which was ' to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness...
Page 93 - Mid the desert brown and wide. Close beside the sedgy brim Couchant lurks the lion grim ; Watching till the close of day Brings the death-devoted prey. Heedless at the ambushed brink The tall giraffe stoops down to drink. Upon him straight the savage springs With cruel joy. The desert rings With clanging sound of desperate strife — The prey is strong and he strives for life.