Tant' Alie of Transvaal: Her Diary 1880-1902 |
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... LANDDROST . - Magistrate or chief official of a town . LANDS . The cultivated portions of a Boer farm . MIST . - Dried cow - dung , much used as fuel in that treeless country . NACHTMAAL . - The Lord's Supper . Noor . - Kaffir term for ...
... LANDDROST . - Magistrate or chief official of a town . LANDS . The cultivated portions of a Boer farm . MIST . - Dried cow - dung , much used as fuel in that treeless country . NACHTMAAL . - The Lord's Supper . Noor . - Kaffir term for ...
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... Landdrost of Dordrecht reported that Friday night they were attacked by the enemy two thousand strong with four cannon and two Maxims . The fight lasted till dusk about ten minutes west of the town . Fighting - General du Toit reported ...
... Landdrost of Dordrecht reported that Friday night they were attacked by the enemy two thousand strong with four cannon and two Maxims . The fight lasted till dusk about ten minutes west of the town . Fighting - General du Toit reported ...
Page 125
... Landdrost at ten o'clock as soon as his office opened , and hear from his lips the truth . I no longer felt timid in going to the Landdrost's office ; because since Frikkie's departure I had done all the buying and selling , and also I ...
... Landdrost at ten o'clock as soon as his office opened , and hear from his lips the truth . I no longer felt timid in going to the Landdrost's office ; because since Frikkie's departure I had done all the buying and selling , and also I ...
Page 140
... Landdrost had already fled with the books . I was so startled . I went at once to the court - house which was open and there I found Landdrost Neethling sitting in his chair as usual ! I said : " And the forage ? " He answered that I ...
... Landdrost had already fled with the books . I was so startled . I went at once to the court - house which was open and there I found Landdrost Neethling sitting in his chair as usual ! I said : " And the forage ? " He answered that I ...
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... Landdrost was not in his office , so we had to go to the store without a permit . The store - keeper said he might not sell anything without a permit , so we must again return to the office . When we got there the Landdrost would not ...
... Landdrost was not in his office , so we had to go to the store without a permit . The store - keeper said he might not sell anything without a permit , so we must again return to the office . When we got there the Landdrost would not ...
Common terms and phrases
Alie amongst answered asked battle began Bettie Boers brother brother-in-law brought burghers camp cattle child coffee commando cried Cronje dead dear death Dirkie doctor Eeden enemy English F. J. BADENHORST farm father fear feel felt fight fire friends Frikkie Frikkie's gave glad greet hand Hartebeestfontein hear heard heart horses husband Jacobsdal Kaffir Kaffir boy killed Klerksdorp knew Krugersdorp laager Landdrost letter Lichtenburg Liebenberg live looked Lord Louis Botha loved Mafeking measles Mevrouw Modder River month morning mother never night o'clock once passed peace Piet Piet Cronje poor Potchefstroom prayed Pretoria prisoners prisoners of war rifle sent sick Simonstown Sister Hannie stood telegram tell tent things thought to-day told took town train Transvaal trekked Uitlanders veld Volksraad wagons watch wife wish women wounded write
Popular passages
Page 280 - Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Page 275 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Page 132 - For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Page 208 - Let Asher be blessed with children ; Let him be acceptable to his brethren, And let him dip his foot in oil. Thy shoes shall be iron and brass ; And as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
Page 65 - State, your Government will be left free to govern the country without interference and to conduct its diplomatic intercourse and shape its foreign policy, subject only to the requirement embodied in the fourth article of the new draft, that any treaty with a foreign State shall not have effect without the approval of the Queen.
Page 69 - I believe, generations would hardly be able to blot out ; and to go to war with President Kruger to enforce upon him reforms in the internal affairs of his State, in which Secretaries of State, standing in their place, have repudiated all right of interference, that would be a course of action which would be immoral.
Page 281 - Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Page 179 - Praise the Lord, 0 my soul : and all that is within me praise his holy Name.
Page 270 - I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Page 222 - But if these things are done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry...