Lake Ngami: Or, Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of Southwestern AfricaHarper & brothers, 1856 - 521 sider |
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... known , he has thought it advisable to enter largely into their habits , & c . , the rather as nat- ural history has from childhood been his favorite pur- suit , and is a subject on which he therefore feels con- versant ; and though ...
... known , he has thought it advisable to enter largely into their habits , & c . , the rather as nat- ural history has from childhood been his favorite pur- suit , and is a subject on which he therefore feels con- versant ; and though ...
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... known in Europe previous to the discovery of the Passage round the Cape of Good Hope . - Description of the Oryx . - Gregarious . - Speed.— Food . - Water not necessary to its existence . - Will face the Lion . -Formidable Horns ...
... known in Europe previous to the discovery of the Passage round the Cape of Good Hope . - Description of the Oryx . - Gregarious . - Speed.— Food . - Water not necessary to its existence . - Will face the Lion . -Formidable Horns ...
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... known to be infected by fevers fatal to Europeans ; while the latter presented , for a considerable distance northward , nothing but a sandy shore , destitute of fresh water and vegetation . The country inter- vening between the western ...
... known to be infected by fevers fatal to Europeans ; while the latter presented , for a considerable distance northward , nothing but a sandy shore , destitute of fresh water and vegetation . The country inter- vening between the western ...
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... known to Europeans , and was once hastily surveyed by Commodore Owen , of the Royal Navy . It is a very spacious , commodious , and comparatively safe harbor , being on three sides protected by a sandy shore . The only winds to which it ...
... known to Europeans , and was once hastily surveyed by Commodore Owen , of the Royal Navy . It is a very spacious , commodious , and comparatively safe harbor , being on three sides protected by a sandy shore . The only winds to which it ...
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... known by the name of " humpbacks , " which come here to breed . Sev- eral cargoes of oil , the produce of this fish , have been already exported . At the inner part of the harbor , a piece of shallow water extends nearly a mile into the ...
... known by the name of " humpbacks , " which come here to breed . Sev- eral cargoes of oil , the produce of this fish , have been already exported . At the inner part of the harbor , a piece of shallow water extends nearly a mile into the ...
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abundance Africa animals appearance approach arrival assegai Barmen beast became Bechuanas bird black rhinoceros bushes Bushmen Cape Cape Colony Cape-Town cattle cause chase chief course Damara-land Damaras death distance dogs Eikhams elephants encampment feet fire flesh Galton gemsbok giraffe gnoo grass Griqua ground habits Hahn head Hill-Damaras hippopotami horns horse Hottentot hundred hyænas Jonker Afrikaner journey Kahichenè killed kind kraal Lake Lake Ngami lion miles missionary moreover morning mountain Namaqua-land Namaquas Nangoro natives nearly never Ngami night obtained occasion Okamabuti Omanbondè once Ondara Orange River ostrich Ovambo oxen party piece rain rain-maker reached rhinoceros Richterfeldt river savage Scheppmansdorf Schmelen's Hope season seen short shot skin soon species spot stone suddenly Swakop thing Timbo tion told tree tribe unfrequently wagons Walfisch Bay werft white rhinoceros whole wild wounded Zwartbooi
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Side 269 - 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.
Side 47 - ... 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!
Side 239 - 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...
Side 235 - Finding that we were quickly gaining upon them, the male at once slackened his pace, and diverged somewhat from his course ; but seeing that we were not to be diverted from our purpose, he again increased his speed, and with wings drooping so as almost to touch the ground, he hovered round us, now in wide circles, and then decreasing the circumference till he came almost within pistol-shot, when he...
Side 238 - And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them.
Side 249 - The head and neck 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 arrows in his left. Such as the writer has seen were most perfect mimics of the ostrich, and at a few hundred yards...
Side 98 - ... every screw in our boxes had been drawn, and the horn handles of our instruments as well as our combs, were split into fine laminae. The lead dropped out of our pencils, our...
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