Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern AfricaJ. Snow, 1842 - 624 pages |
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... darker - A trying crisis - Purposes overruled - Seasons changed - Scarcity of rain accounted for - Indications of former luxuri- ance - Diminution of fountains - The north winds - Instinct of animals -Atmospheric phenomena - Description ...
... darker - A trying crisis - Purposes overruled - Seasons changed - Scarcity of rain accounted for - Indications of former luxuri- ance - Diminution of fountains - The north winds - Instinct of animals -Atmospheric phenomena - Description ...
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... darkness and of terror to the most fearless and enterprising traveller . Although in no country has there been such a sacrifice of men to the enterprise of discovery - of men the most intel- ligent and undaunted , of men impelled not by ...
... darkness and of terror to the most fearless and enterprising traveller . Although in no country has there been such a sacrifice of men to the enterprise of discovery - of men the most intel- ligent and undaunted , of men impelled not by ...
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... darker in their com- plexion , as is the case with all the other tribes that inhabit , or have inhabited , the Torrid Zone . If they had been gipsies from Egypt , as some have thought , it is another singular circumstance , that they ...
... darker in their com- plexion , as is the case with all the other tribes that inhabit , or have inhabited , the Torrid Zone . If they had been gipsies from Egypt , as some have thought , it is another singular circumstance , that they ...
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... dark- coloured as slaves in general . This corroborates the statements of ancient authors , whose description of a people inhabiting the inte- rior regions of northern Africa , answers to that of the Hottentots and Bushmen . 6 ORIGIN OF ...
... dark- coloured as slaves in general . This corroborates the statements of ancient authors , whose description of a people inhabiting the inte- rior regions of northern Africa , answers to that of the Hottentots and Bushmen . 6 ORIGIN OF ...
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... dark green of the mimosas spreading along their banks . Excepting these , as far as the eye can reach , no tree or shrub is visible . Nowhere appear any signs of life , nor a point on which the eye can dwell with pleasure . The compass ...
... dark green of the mimosas spreading along their banks . Excepting these , as far as the eye can reach , no tree or shrub is visible . Nowhere appear any signs of life , nor a point on which the eye can dwell with pleasure . The compass ...
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Africaner Africaner's animal appeared arrived attack attendants Barolongs Basutos Batlapis Bauangketsi beasts Bechuanas Berend brethren bushes Bushmen called Cape Town cattle character chief Christian circumstances Colony compelled Corannas course dark desert distance Divine Divine grace Dutch language enemy eyes farmers feel fire giraffe Gospel Graaff Reinet Griqua Town hand hear heard heart heathen hills horses Hottentots human hyenas influence inhabitants journey Kafirs killed kind king Kuruman labours language leaving lion Lithako living London Missionary Society look Makaba Mantatees Matabele miles mind mission missionary Morimo morning Moselekatse Mothibi mountains Namaqua-land Namaquas natives never night object obtained Orange River oxen party passed Philippolis plain prey rain rain-maker reached reason remarked replied savage scarcely seen seized soon soul spear spot station thing thirst tion traveller tribes Vanderkemp village wagon Waterboer women Zak River
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Page 298 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 30 - There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon : and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Page 612 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 266 - 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 143 - 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 32 - 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 482 - Call upon me in the time of trouble, and I will deliver thee.
Page 106 - In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Page 187 - 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 537 - O king, afflict not my heart ! I have merited thy displeasure ; let me be slain like the warrior ; I cannot live with the poor." And, raising his hand to the ring he wore on his brow, he continued, " How can I live among the dogs of the king, and disgrace these badges of honour which I won among the spears and shields of the mighty?