My Colonial Service in British Guiana, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Fiji, Australia, Newfoundland, and Hong Kong, with Interludes, 1. kötetJ. Murray, 1903 - 408 oldal |
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
My Colonial Service in British Guiana, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Fiji ..., 1. kötet Sir George William Des Vœux Nincs elérhető előnézet - 1903 |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
administration afterwards agreeable altogether ants appeared appointment arrived Barbados became birds boat hands British Guiana canoe carried Castries caused Charles Kingsley Chief Justice Christianburg circumstances coast colony coloured condition considerable coolies corvée Council court Demerara Demerara River dinner distance district doubt early effect England Essequebo evidently experience fact factory feet Fiji Fijian forest French Government House Governor ground hammock heard immigrants Indian island labour Lady letter Levuka Lord Lord Carnarvon Lucia magistrate Martinique ment mention miles months morning native never night obtained occasion occupied occurred officers once Ovalau owing paddling passed planters probably proved rapids Rawson reached recognised regarded rendered respect river scarcely Secretary seemed seen settlement Sir Arthur Gordon snakes Soufrière specially steamer tion told took town trees Trinidad tropical usually Viti Levu Walter Morrison weeks whole wife
Népszerű szakaszok
287. oldal - I do not know; If to the realms of peace and love, Farewell to happiness above; If to a place of lower level, I can't congratulate the Devil.
62. oldal - ... him, in a memorial sermon, " the Christ of Harrow " ; and there must be many a man now living who, as he looks back, feels that he owed the salvation of his soul to that Christlike character. During my first two years at Harrow, Dr. Westcott, afterwards Bishop of Durham, was one of the Masters, and it has always been a matter of deep regret to me that I had no opportunity of getting to know him. He was hardly visible in the common life of the School. He lived remote, aloof, apart, alone. It must...
199. oldal - I went this morning to the Thanksgiving Service at St Paul's for the recovery of the Prince of Wales. London was densely crowded, and even yesterday evening, when I went up, the line of procession from Buckingham Palace — by Pall Mall, The Strand, Fleet Street, and Ludgate Hill — was difficult of passage. Immense crowds of sightseers were reconnoitring the ground, and preparing themselves to enjoy...
137. oldal - ... doctors should be rendered independent of the estates and be made public officers ; when they showed how completely the state of the law put every indentured immigrant at the mercy of an unscrupulous employer; that there was "here and there excessive indulgence in the practice of arbitrary stoppage of wages"; that various arrangements necessary for the well-being of the coolies were in some cases extremely defective, and that when these defects were pointed out to the Executive, extreme weakness...
380. oldal - Ordinances enacted by the governor of the colony of Fiji with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, 1884. ntp [Suva, 1884.] f".
44. oldal - I think, about two miles in length and about half a mile in width, with the base on a river or creek.
261. oldal - Upon which little Pope Hennessey, who was sitting on the opposite side of the table, said even louder : " A much more extraordinary thing has happened to me, Sir George," and when asked what, replied : " / have been asked to dine neither with the Prime Minister nor with the Archbishop of Canterbury!
8. oldal - ... the baggage, the passing column jeering poor Sambo, and making the adjacent woodland echo with their loud guffaws at his helpless yet laughable condition. That was a noisy night, and it has always been a matter of wonder to me that we remained undisturbed, with the enemy less than three miles up the river, as General Birney, with whom we then were, has left on record. There was no stopping to wring out. But
363. oldal - ... To keep out all colored people." Now, sir, who was the man that offered me this indignity? It was Deputy-Marshal Jenkins, the notorious slave-catcher. And why did he do it? Because he had his orders from pious, praying, Christian Democrats, who hold and teach the damnable doctrine that the "black man has no rights that the white man is bound to respect.
352. oldal - A scene of treachery and bloodshed was exhibited in this very quarter, to which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the history of the greatest barbarians of any age or nation. About this time the governor of Pittsburg released those christian Indians who together with the missionary Shebosh had been taken prisoners by the Americans.