The Annals of Natal: 1495 to 1845, Volumen1

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P. Davis & Sons, 1888

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Página 351 - That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Página 92 - ... were needed; but, as if bent on convincing their chief of their extreme grief, the multitude commenced a general massacre. Many of them received the blow of death while inflicting it on others, each taking the opportunity of revenging his injuries, real or imaginary.
Página 414 - Governor and Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's colony of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and of the territories and dependencies thereof, and vice-admiral of the same, and her Majesty's high commissioner, &c., &c., &c.
Página 72 - I am directed by his Excellency the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st instant, and to acquaint you that...
Página 375 - From the sole of his foot to the top of his head, he did not have a single flaw.
Página 31 - ... submissive to their king or chief; living in communities, in huts made of branches, wrought through with rushes and long grass and roofed like haystacks in Holland. In manners dress, and behaviour, they are much more orderly than the Cape Hottentots. The women attend to cultivation ; the men herd and milk the cows ; they do not eat poultry because these feed on filth; still less do they eat eggs, and it makes them sick to see Europeans eat them.
Página 280 - Dingarn seemed highly gratified at the well-merited encomiums which I paid to his taste, every one of these devices having originated in his fertile imagination. It was nearly dark before this extraordinary exhibition was ended, Dingarn, during the latter part, frequently turning round, and addressing me thus : — " Are we not a merry people? What black nations can vie with us? Who among them can dress as we do...
Página 612 - England, that it may graciously please Her Majesty to acknowledge and declare us a free and independent people (a right so dearly purchased with our blood), and to concede to us all those privileges which constitute the boast and greatness of the Nation which has the happiness to live under her noble Government ; and, to attain that object, the " Council of the People " have resolved that (should Your Excellency desire it) Two Commissioners shall be sent from hence to the Colony of the Cape of Good...
Página 692 - ... possess, we will with due submission acknowledge to have deserved it from Him, but not from men. We are aware of the power of Great Britain, and it is not our object to defy that power ; but at the same time we cannot allow that might instead of right shall triumph, without having employed all our means to oppose it.
Página 710 - I was forced to make the attack without the valuable assistance which a discharge of shells and shot from the howitzer would have afforded me. Giving the order to advance, therefore, the troops had just moved to where the termination of a range of mangrove bush opened to a level space in front of the Congella, when a heavy and well-directed fire from the bush was poured on them ; upon which they immediately formed and commenced a fire in return, while the two six-pounders were loading.

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