Lake Ngami: Or, Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of Southwestern AfricaHarper & brothers, 1856 - 521 páginas |
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... body crusted with dirt . I am not ashamed to confess that at one time I felt my own eyes moistened . Neither blows nor kind words were of any effect : they only served to irritate and infuriate him ; and I saw clearly that the only ...
... body crusted with dirt . I am not ashamed to confess that at one time I felt my own eyes moistened . Neither blows nor kind words were of any effect : they only served to irritate and infuriate him ; and I saw clearly that the only ...
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... body , which shortly became intolerable ; and , notwithstanding the night air was very sharp , and the dew heavy , I cast off all my clothes , and rolled on the icy- cold sand till the blood flowed freely from every pore . Strange as it ...
... body , which shortly became intolerable ; and , notwithstanding the night air was very sharp , and the dew heavy , I cast off all my clothes , and rolled on the icy- cold sand till the blood flowed freely from every pore . Strange as it ...
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... body , he is easily brought to the ground . This being once effected , the tail is passed between his legs and held forcibly down over his ribs , and the head is twisted on one side , with the horns fixed in the ground . A short ...
... body , he is easily brought to the ground . This being once effected , the tail is passed between his legs and held forcibly down over his ribs , and the head is twisted on one side , with the horns fixed in the ground . A short ...
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... the flesh , to ascertain if our prize was fat . But whether life was not altogether extinct , or that the sudden access of my weight caused a vibration in the lately - living body , certain it AN UNEXPECTED RIDE . 73 is that I felt the.
... the flesh , to ascertain if our prize was fat . But whether life was not altogether extinct , or that the sudden access of my weight caused a vibration in the lately - living body , certain it AN UNEXPECTED RIDE . 73 is that I felt the.
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... body , he started to his feet and made off at full speed . This action was so instantaneous as to prevent the man from dismounting , and the other Namaquas were par- alyzed with fear . Fortunately , however , after the beast had run ...
... body , he started to his feet and made off at full speed . This action was so instantaneous as to prevent the man from dismounting , and the other Namaquas were par- alyzed with fear . Fortunately , however , after the beast had run ...
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abundance Africa animals appearance approach arrival assegai Barmen beast became Bechuanas bird black rhinoceros bushes Bushmen Cape Cape Colony Cape-Town cattle cause chase chief course Damara-land Damaras death distance dogs Eikhams elephants encampment feet fire flesh Galton gemsbok giraffe gnoo grass Griqua ground habits Hahn head Hill-Damaras hippopotami horns horse Hottentot hundred hyænas Jonker Afrikaner journey Kahichenè killed kind kraal Lake Lake Ngami lion miles missionary moreover morning mountain Namaqua-land Namaquas Nangoro natives nearly never Ngami night obtained occasion Okamabuti Omanbondè once Ondara Orange River ostrich Ovambo oxen party piece rain rain-maker reached rhinoceros Richterfeldt river savage Scheppmansdorf Schmelen's Hope season seen short shot skin soon species spot stone suddenly Swakop thing Timbo tion told tree tribe unfrequently wagons Walfisch Bay werft white rhinoceros whole wild wounded Zwartbooi
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Página 326 - The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,
Página 269 - Onward they came, a dark continuous cloud Of congregated myriads numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of a broad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit; or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumn storm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks.
Página 47 - ... though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image? — surely not!
Página 239 - With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side : Away — away — in the Wilderness vast, Where the White Man's foot hath never passed, And the quivered Coranna or Bechuan Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan : A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which Man hath abandoned from famine and fear...
Página 235 - Finding that we were quickly gaining upon them, the male at once slackened his pace, and diverged somewhat from his course ; but seeing that we were not to be diverted from our purpose, he again increased his speed, and with wings drooping so as almost to touch the ground, he hovered round us, now in wide circles, and then decreasing the circumference till he came almost within pistol-shot, when he...
Página 238 - And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them.
Página 249 - The head and neck of an ostrich are stuffed, and a small rod introduced. The Bushman intending to attack game whitens his legs with any substance he can procure. He places the feathered saddle on his shoulders, takes the bottom part of the neck in his right hand, and his bow and poisoned arrows in his left. Such as the writer has seen were most perfect mimics of the ostrich, and at a few hundred yards...
Página 98 - ... every screw in our boxes had been drawn, and the horn handles of our instruments as well as our combs, were split into fine laminae. The lead dropped out of our pencils, our...
Página 511 - Yusef ; or, The Journey of the Frangi. A Crusade in the East.
Página 441 - ... proposal, when another peal of mirth ensued. Mahuto, who was a sensible and shrewd woman, stated that the plan, though hopeless, was a good one, as she often thought our custom was much better than theirs. It was reasonable that woman should attend to household affairs, and the lighter parts of...