The Mission: Or, Scenes in Africa : Written for Young People, Volumen1Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1845 |
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The Mission: Or, Scenes in Africa : Written for Young People Frederick Marryat Vista de fragmentos - 1845 |
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Página 247 - The day passed, and the night also, but the lion never moved from the spot. The sun rose again, and its intense heat soon rendered his feet past feeling. At noon the lion rose and walked to the water, only a few yards distant, looking behind as it went, lest the man should move, and seeing him stretch out his hand to take his gun, turned in a rage, and was on the point of springing upon him.
Página 153 - ... leopard and lion skins, ostrich eggs and feathers, strings of onions, rolls of tobacco, bamboos, &c. The house contained one large eating-room, a small private room, and two bedrooms. The windows were not glazed, but closed with skins every night. There was no chimney or stove in the house, all the cooking being carried on in a small outhouse. The furniture was not very considerable : a large table, a few chairs and stools, some iron pots and kettles, a set of Dutch teacups, a teapot, and a brass...
Página 86 - ... of our cattle into the colony. We plundered, and we fought for our lives. We found you weak; we destroyed your soldiers. We saw that we were strong; we attacked your head-quarters...
Página 152 - The old boor told them he had expected them, as he had been informed that they were to set out that day ; but he had concluded that they would arrive in the afternoon, and not so early. We may as well here give a description of a Dutch farmer's house at the Cape settlement. It was a large square building, the wall built up of clay, and then plastered with a composition made by the boors, which becomes excessively hard in time; after which it is whitewashed. The roof was thatched with a hard sort...
Página 87 - ... till the land. But your troops cover the plains, and swarm in the thickets, where they cannot distinguish the man from the woman, and shoot all. § " 'You want us to submit to Gaika. That man's face is fair to you, but his heart is false.
Página 85 - There we were circumcised ; there we married wives ; and there our children were born. The white men hated us, but could not drive us away. When there was war, we plundered you. When there was peace, some of our bad people stole ; but our chiefs forbade it. Your treacherous friend, Gaika, always had peace with you ; yet, when his people stole, he shared in the plunder.
Página 85 - We lived in peace. Some bad people stole, perhaps; but the nation was quiet — the chiefs were quiet. Gaika stole — his chiefs stole — his people stole. You sent him copper; you sent him beads; you sent him horses — on which he rode to steal more. To us you sent only commandoes ! " 'We quarrelled with Gaika about grass — no business of yours.
Página 188 - ... first preached by our Divine Master. The riches of a Caffre consist not only in his cattle, but in the number of his wives, who are all his slaves. To tell them that polygamy is unlawful and wrong, is therefore almost as much as to tell them that it is not right to hold a large herd of cattle; and as the chiefs are of course the opulent of the nation, they oppose us. You observe in Caffreland, as elsewhere, it is " hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
Página 86 - We saw that we were strong; we attacked your head-quarters:* — and if we had succeeded, our right was good, for you began the war. We failed — and you are here. " 'We wish for peace; we wish to rest in our huts; we wish to get milk for our children...
Página 251 - ... he will take a second rest, none of the others presuming to move. Having made a second gorge, he retires ; the others, watching his motions, rush on the remainder, and it is soon devoured. At other times, if a young lion seizes the prey, and an old one happens to come up, the younger retires till the elder has dined. This was what Africaner called better manners than those of the Namaquas.