Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1827 - 493 páginas |
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Africa Algoa Bay animals appearance Arend assagais banks Bechuana boors Bushmen Caffer tribes called Cape Town capital Captain cattle chief circumstances clans coast colonists Colony considerable considered corn Cradock cultivation Delagoa Bay desert destitute distance districts Drostdy Dutch emigrants enemy English extent farm farmers farther favourable feet fire Fish River flocks frontier Gariep gemsbok Government Graaff-Reinet Griqua Town Hartebeest herds horde horses Hottentots hundred hyænas inhabitants journey Kamiesberg Korannas kraal Kuruman labour land Landdrost Lattakoo Mantatees Matclhapees Mateebè Melvill MELVILL'S miles Missionaries Moffat mountains Namaqualand Namaquas natives night ourselves party passed Pella plains plunder population possession present proceeded procure rains reached refresh residence respect River rix-dollars savage scarcely season seemed settlers sheep slaves Sneeuwberg soon southern spot springboks station sufficient Table Bay Tambookies Teysho travellers Uitenhage vicinity waggon warriors wild wine Witteboy women Zoolas
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Página 234 - The scorner's laugh, and the sufferer's tear, And malice, and meanness, and falsehood, and folly, Dispose me to musing and dark melancholy ; When my bosom is full, and my thoughts are high, And my soul is sick with the...
Página 471 - Lion as he approaches, sometimes up to the very horses' heels, couching every now and then, as if to measure the distance and strength of his enemies. This is the moment to shoot him fairly in the forehead, or some other mortal part. If they continue to wound him ineffectually till he waxes...
Página 474 - Tis vain ; the thirsty sands are drinking His streaming blood — his strength is sinking; The victor's fangs are in his veins— His flanks are streaked with sanguine stains — His panting breast in foam and gore Is bathed — he reels — his race is o'er: He falls — and, with convulsive throe, Resigns his throat to the ravening foe! — And lo! ere quivering life has fled, The vultures, wheeling overhead, Swoop down to watch, in gaunt array, Till the gorged tyrant quits his prey.
Página 236 - 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.
Página 235 - Where the elephant browses at peace in his wood, And the river-horse gambols unscared in the flood, And the mighty rhinoceros wallows at will In the fen where the wild ass is drinking his fill.
Página 234 - AFAR in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side: When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast, And, sick of the present, I cling to...
Página 471 - Finding that the few indifferent hounds which we had, made little impression on the enemy, they divided themselves into two or three parties, and rode round the jungle, firing into the spot where the dogs were barking round him, but without effect. At length, after some hours spent in thus beating about the bush, the Scottish blood of some of my countrymen began to get impatient ; and three of them announced their determination to march in and beard the lion in his den, provided three of the...
Página 236 - Spread — void of living sight or sound. And here, while the night-winds round me sigh, And the stars burn bright in the midnight sky. As I sit apart by the desert stone, Like Elijah at Horeb's cave alone, "A still small voice...
Página 234 - Attachments— by fate or by falsehood reft; Companions of early days— lost or left; And my Native Land— whose magical name Thrills to the heart like electric flame; The home of my childhood; the haunts of my prime...
Página 234 - Oh, then there is freedom, and joy, and pride, Afar in the desert alone to ride ! There is rapture to vault on the champing steed, And to bound away with the eagle's speed, With the death-fraught firelock...