The Okavango River: A Narrative of Travel, Exploration and AdventureHarper, 1861 - 414 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Africa afterward alluded Angra Pequena animal ant-hill antelope arrival assegai attack beast brute bullet bush Bushmen camp Cape caravan cattle chief Chikongo course Cunenè Damara Land discovered distance dogs dreadful eastward elephants escape evidently farther feet felt fire friends gemsbok giraffe Green ground herd hippopotami hour huge hunt journey killed knobkierie Koroinene Lake Ngami limestone lion look Makololo Matako miles morning natives nearly neighbor neighborhood nevertheless night Okavango Okavango River Omanbondè Omaruru River Omuramba U'Ovambo Omuramba Ua once Orange River Otjimbingué Ovaherero Ovambo Ovaquangari oxen paces party Pereira poor proceeded proved pursuit rain reached rhinoceros rifle river rock route savage scarcely seen short shot shoulder side soon South Africa species spoor spot springboks stalk suddenly thirst tion traveling tree tribe turned vley wagon werft wild wounded
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Página 327 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
Página 112 - Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my side : Away, away from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, and the buffalo's glen...
Página 112 - 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 113 - Where the zebra wantonly tosses his mane, With wild hoof scouring the desolate plain; And the fleet-footed ostrich over the waste Speeds like a horseman who travels in haste, Hieing away to the home of her rest, Where she and her mate have scooped their nest, Far hid from the pitiless plunderer's view In the pathless depths of the parched karroo.
Página 112 - In the fen where the wild ass is drinking his fill. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side: O'er the brown Karroo, where the bleating cry Of the springbok's fawn sounds plaintively; And the timorous quagga's shrill whistling neigh...
Página 314 - Now, if D had fired, in my present position I should have run great risk of being hit by the bullet; I hallooed out to him, therefore, to wait until I could veer my head a little. In time I succeeded, and the next instant I heard the click of a gun, but no report. Another moment, and a well-directed ball, taking effect in his forehead, laid the lion a corpse alongside my own bruised and mutilated body.
Página 154 - Can this be death ? then what is life or death ? Speak!" but he spoke not : "wake!" but still he slept : — " But yesterday and who had mightier breath ? A thousand warriors by his word were kept In awe : he said, as the centurion saith, ' Go,' and he goeth ; * come,
Página 327 - ... four hundred feet in height. I stood upon a cliff nearly level with the top of the fall, and directly in front of it. The beams of the evening sun fell full upon the cascade, and occasioned a most splendid rainbow ; while the vapoury mists arising from the broken waters, the bright green woods which hung...
Página 314 - In this he partially succeeded, tearing, in the attempt, my trousers and body-linen, and grazing the skin of my body. Knowing that if he got a firm hold of me here it would surely cost me my life, I quickly seized him by his two ears, and, with a desperate effort, managed to roll him over on his side, which gave me a moment's respite. He next laid hold of my left hand, which he bit through and through, smashing the wrist, and tearing my right hand seriously. I was now totally helpless, and must inevitably...
Página 76 - Textor erythrorhynchus — in the ignited trees looked like so many lamps suspended in designs at once natural, pleasing, and splendid. It was altogether a glorious illumination, worthy of Nature's palace with its innumerable windows and stately vaulted canopy. But the danger associated with the grand spectacle was too great and too imminent for us thoroughly to appreciate its magnificence. Indeed, we were really thankful when once our backs were turned on the awful scene. At break of day we halted...