Four Years in Southern AfricaH. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 - 308 páginas |
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amidst amusing animals appearance approaching asked assegais banks beads beasts beauty beneath bivouac boors bright bush calm Cape Corps Cape Town cattle chief cliffs Colony companion Conguar crossed dark deep described distant dogs dread Dutch elephants English excite feeling fire Fish River flowers foliage forests frequently give gleam gloom Goedendag green grey hand heard hills Hinza hippopotamus horses Hottentot hunter journey Kaffer Kafferland Kei River kloof kraal lady Landdrost laughed leaving light look mingled missionary mountains natives nature never night night-fire party passed preter quickly ravine reach rhinoceros rich riding rock rocky round rush savage scene scenery seen shadow shot shrubs side Skipper slave soldiers sound Southern Africa steep strange stream thing thought told traced travelling trees tribe trunk turned Uitenhage waggon wandering watch Wesleyville wild wind young
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Página 201 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Página 201 - With many of the feathered race, he pays the common tribute of a morning and an evening song ; and even when the meridian sun has shut in silence the mouths of almost the whole of animated nature, the campanero still cheers the forest. You hear his toll, and then a pause for a minute, then another toll, and then a pause again, and then a toll, and again a pause.
Página 284 - They moved in tracks of shining white; And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire — Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Página 200 - His note is loud and clear, like the sound of a bell, and may be heard at the distance of three miles. In the midst of these extensive wilds, generally on the dried top of an aged mora, almost out of gun reach, you will see the campanero. No sound or song from any of the winged inhabitants of the forest, not even the clearly pronounced ' Whip-poor- Will ' from the goatsucker, causes such astonishment as the toll of the campanero.
Página 58 - Here's a large mouth, indeed, That spits forth death and mountains, rocks and seas ; Talks as familiarly of roaring lions, As maids of thirteen do of puppy dogs...
Página 159 - OH, happy shades — to me unblest ! Friendly to peace, but not to me ! How ill the scene that offers rest, And heart that cannot rest, agree...
Página 199 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Página 95 - English have given him their protection, and with it their vices; and he is a sunk and degraded being — a wretched savage, despised and suspected by his tribe, continually intoxicated, and ever ready to sell his wives for brandy. — Such are the fruits of our protection ! such have ever been the effects on the savage, of the kindness of the civilized. If we find them simple and trusting, we leave them treacherous; if we find them temperate, we leave them drunkards; and in after-years, a plea for...