Sporting Scenes Amongst the Kaffirs of South AfricaG. Routledge & Company, 1858 - 327 oldal |
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232. oldal - By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
135. oldal - In the course of the same work he gives many life-like illustrations of baboon habits, whether wild or tame. Of the daily life of the baboons, the following affords a graphic and amusing description. "During the shooting trip with the Boers, I awoke before daybreak, and as I felt very cold and not inclined to sleep, I got up, and taking my gun, walked to a little ravine, out of which a clear, murmuring stream flashed in the moonlight, and ran close past our outspan. A little distance up this kloof,...
137. oldal - ... and gave a sharp tug at his tail as he was about to turn. The old fellow seemed to treat it with the greatest indifference, scarcely turning round at the insult. Master Impudence was about repeating the performance, when the pater, showing that he was not such a fool as he looked, suddenly...
136. oldal - Back from the solitary world Which lay around ; and I obtained a view of the range of mountains gilded by the morning sun. 'A large party of the old gentleman's family were sitting up the ravine, and were evidently holding a debate as to the cause of my intrusion. I watched them through my glass, and was much amused at their grotesque and almost human movements. Some of the old ladies had their olive branches in their laps, and appeared to be "doing their hair...
135. oldal - Suddenly I heard a hoarse cough, and, on turning, saw indistinctly in the fog a queer little old man standing near and looking at me. I instinctively cocked my gun, as the idea of Bushmen and poisoned arrows flashed across my mind. The old man instantly dropped on his hands, 136 BABOONS AT HOME.
136. oldal - A large party of the old gentleman's family were sitting up the ravine, and were evidently holding a debate as to the cause of my intrusion. I watched them through my glass, and was much amused at their grotesque and almost human movements. Some of the old ladies had their olive branches in their laps, and appeared to be 'doing their hair," while a patriarchal-looking old fellow paced backwards and forwards with a fussy sort of look.
24. oldal - Hottentot compagnons d'armes dash into the dense thorny covert, and not wishing to be outdone by these little ' black fellows/ he sets its abrading properties at defiance, and boldly rushes in on their wake. His progress is, however, soon arrested ; an opposing branch knocks off the tall conical machine curiously balanced, like a milkmaid's pail, on the top of his head. He stoops down to recover his lost treasure; in so doing his ' pouch-box' goes over his head, his 'cross-belts
241. oldal - ... the motives which influence the conduct of the white man. But they are men in physical and mental powers ; men in the arts and usages of their nation, and the laws of their country ; and the great difficulty in governing them is, to treat them as men-children, teaching them that to submit and to obey are essential to their own welfare as well as to that of others.
25. oldal - Totties," as they briskly run past in their retreat, warn him that the enemy (who knows right well our bugle calls) is at their heels. Exhausted by his protracted struggle, breathless, torn and bleeding from hands...
280. oldal - I found that only three days' issue of meat remained. I therefore directed that such horses as were living might be killed, and made into biltong. We had hitherto been issuing biscuit dust, alternating with biscuit and rice, at half allowance. The horse-flesh, of which there was but little, we commenced using on the 22nd, and, by a rigid exactness in the issues, I calculated we might certainly hold out, although without meat, for nearly...