Lake Ngami: Or Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of South Western Africa |
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abundance Africa amongst animals appearance arrival assegai Barmen beast became Bechuanas bird black rhinoceros bushes bushmen Cape Cape Colony Cape-Town cattle chase chief course Damara-land Damaras distance dogs eggs Eikhams elephants encampment feet fire flesh Fountain Galton gemsbok giraffe gnoo grass Griqua ground habits Hahn head herd Hill-Damaras hippopotamus horns horse Hottentot hundred hyaenas Jonker Jonker Afrikaner journey Kahichene killed kind koodoo kraal Lake Lake Ngami lion miles missionary moreover morning Namaqua-land Namaquas Nangoro natives never Ngami night obtained occasion Okamabuti Omanbonde once ONDARA Ondonga Orange river oryx ostrich Otjikoto Ovambo oxen paces party poison quadrupeds rain reached rhinoceros Richterfeldt river sand Scheppmansdorf Schmelen's Hope season seen shooting short shot soon species spot suddenly Swakop Timbo tion tree tribe unfrequently visited wagons Walfisch Bay werft whilst white rhinoceros wild wounded zebra
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Page 275 - Nay, not so." Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerly still; and said, "I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
Page 409 - ... bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
Page 199 - A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which Man hath abandoned from famine and fear; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the...
Page 373 - Notwithstanding the Bechuanas acknowledge us to be a superior race to themselves, they have no hesitation to pronounce many of our habits and customs both clumsy and troublesome. They laugh at us for putting our legs and arms into bags, and using buttons for the purpose of fastening bandages round our bodies, instead of suspending them as ornaments from the neck, or hair of the head. Once initiated in the use of these things, however, they are but too glad to benefit by them. To wash the body, instead...
Page 226 - 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.
Page 284 - Gan thunder, and both ends of Heaven ; the clouds., From many a horrid rift abortive pour'd Fierce rain with lightning mix'd, water with fire In ruin reconcil'd...
Page 25 - ... 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!
Page 408 - Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
Page 199 - 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...
Page 207 - A kind of flat double cushion is stuffed with straw, and formed something like a saddle. All, except the under part of this, is covered over with feathers attached to small pegs, and made so as to resemble the bird. The neck and head 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...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Lake Ngami: Or Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of South Western Africa |
| Author | Charles John Andersson |
| Contributor | John Charles Frémont |
| Publisher | Dix, Edwards & Company, 1857 |
| Length | 433 pages |
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