Narrative of a Residence in South AfricaMoxon, 1835 - 356 páginas |
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... Herd of Elephants - Remarkable Escape of Lieutenant Moodie 106-131 CHAPTER VIII . Wars with the Wild Beasts ; Lion - hunting - Notices and Anecdotes of other Animals ; Leopards ; Hyænas ; the Hippopotamus and Rhinoceros ; the Buffalo ...
... Herd of Elephants - Remarkable Escape of Lieutenant Moodie 106-131 CHAPTER VIII . Wars with the Wild Beasts ; Lion - hunting - Notices and Anecdotes of other Animals ; Leopards ; Hyænas ; the Hippopotamus and Rhinoceros ; the Buffalo ...
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... herds of cattle and straggling flocks of sheep , tended by Hottentot herdsmen . These downs were bounded on the west by a range of low sterile - looking hills , and on the east by the banks of the Zwartkops river , covered with jungle ...
... herds of cattle and straggling flocks of sheep , tended by Hottentot herdsmen . These downs were bounded on the west by a range of low sterile - looking hills , and on the east by the banks of the Zwartkops river , covered with jungle ...
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... herds of wild animals - antelopes and quaggas - pasturing in undisturbed quietude . " Sae that's the lot o ' our inheritance , then ? " quoth one of the party , a Scottish agriculturist . " Aweel , now that we've really got till't , I ...
... herds of wild animals - antelopes and quaggas - pasturing in undisturbed quietude . " Sae that's the lot o ' our inheritance , then ? " quoth one of the party , a Scottish agriculturist . " Aweel , now that we've really got till't , I ...
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... herds of large game , chiefly of the antelope tribe ; and we found our highland valley to be pretty well stocked with the animals mentioned in the beginning of this chapter . But we had as yet seen none of the beasts of prey that ...
... herds of large game , chiefly of the antelope tribe ; and we found our highland valley to be pretty well stocked with the animals mentioned in the beginning of this chapter . But we had as yet seen none of the beasts of prey that ...
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... herds , has moved off ( perhaps from fear of the Bushmen ) to some other squatting place . Now our nearest neighbour down the valley is Groot Willem about twenty - five miles distant . Black William EXTRACT FROM THE AUTHOR'S DIARY . 43.
... herds , has moved off ( perhaps from fear of the Bushmen ) to some other squatting place . Now our nearest neighbour down the valley is Groot Willem about twenty - five miles distant . Black William EXTRACT FROM THE AUTHOR'S DIARY . 43.
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afterwards Albany Algoa Bay Amakosa animal appeared arms arrived assagais boors British Bushmen Caffer chiefs Cafferland Cape colony Cape Corps Cape Town Captain Stockenstrom cattle character circumstances clans Colonel Colonial Government colonists coloured command Commissioners district driven Dutch Dutch-African Earl Bathurst elephants emigrants England English Fairbairn favourable feet field-cornet fire Fish River flocks forest frontier boors functionaries Gaika glen Glen-Lynden Governor Graaf-Reinet Graham's Town ground herds Home Government horses Hottentots hyæna inhabitants jungle Kat River Koonap kraal labours land landdrost leopard lion Lord Charles Somerset Makanna Makomo ment miles mimosa missionary mountains Mulatto native neighbours occasion occupied officer party period persons possession Pringle quaggas race regard remarkable residence respectable Rufane Donkin sent settlement settlers sheep slaves South Africa spot Stuurman Tarka territory thicket tion trees tribes troops Uitenhage valley wagons whole wild Winterberg Zureberg Zureveld