South AfricaChapman & Hall, 1879 - 389 pages |
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altogether annexation Australia Basutos become Bloemfontein British Kafraria Burgers called Cape Colony Capetown capital cattle certainly Cetywayo Chief claim coast Colonial Office coloured comfort course Delagoa Bay Diamond Fields Dingaan district doubt Durban Dutch Boers Dutchman East London England English European farm farmer feeling Fingos Galekas gold Government Governor Grahamstown Griqualand West hands horses idea inhabitants Kafir Kimberley Kreli labour land live look Lovedale matter miles Minister Natal Natives nature never Orange Free Orange River ostrich Parliament parliamentary perhaps Pieter Maritzburg population Port Elizabeth possession pound President Pretoria probably question railway Republic savage Secretary seems settled Sir Theophilus soldiers South Africa South African Republic sugar taken territory things tion told town Transvaal traveller tribe troops Vaal river Volksraad wages wheat wool young Zulu Zululand
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Page 324 - of any law which prevents any of His Majesty's subjects from leaving his dominions and settling in another country; and such a law, if it did exist, would be tyrannical and oppressive.
Page 210 - do .... proclaim and make known that from and after the publication hereof the territory heretofore known as the South African Republic .... shall be, and shall be taken to be, British territory.
Page 208 - unless you shall be satisfied that the inhabitants thereof, or a sufficient number of them, or the Legislature thereof* desire to become Our subjects, nor if any conditions unduly limiting Our power and authority
Page 208 - if the emergency should seem to you to be such as to render it necessary, in order to secure the peace and safety of Our said Colonies and of Our subjects elsewhere that the said territories, or any portion or portions of the same, should provisionally and pending the announcement of Our pleasure,* be administered in Our name and on Our behalf, then and in such case only* We—
Page 281 - any more demoralizing than this of perpetually turning over dirt in quest of a peculiar little stone which may turn up once a week or may not. I could not but think, as I watched the man, of the comparative nobility of the work of a shoemaker who by every pull at his thread is helping to keep some person's foot dry.
Page 303 - some other time of the year than that then present,—if I really wanted to see what flies and dust could do. I sometimes thought that the people of Kimberley were proud of their flies and their dust.
Page 303 - that the solid surface of the earth had risen diluted into the air, and when flies had rendered occupation altogether impossible, I would be told, when complaining, that I ought to be there, in December say, or
Page 58 - Lovedale is a place which has had and is having very great success. It has been established under Presbyterian auspices but is in truth altogether undenominational in the tuition which it gives. I do not say that religion is neglected, but religious teaching does not strike the visitors as the one great object of the Institution. The schools are conducted very much like English
Page 108 - his Excellency announced his intention of resuming military occupation of Port Natal by sending thither without delay a detachment of Her Majesty's forces.
Page 110 - no more savour of Holland than he has in London when he chances to meet a Dutchman there. And yet over the whole South African continent there is no portion of the land for which the Dutchman has fought and bled and dared and suffered as he has done for Natal.