A History of South Africa: From the Earliest Days to UnionLongmans, Green and Company, 1915 - 327 pages |
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A History of South Africa: From the Earliest Days to Union William Charles Scully Affichage du livre entier - 1915 |
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Adam Kok afterwards annexed appointed arrived assembled attack Bantu Basuto Basutoland became Bloemfontein Boers border British Kaffraria burghers Bushmen Caledon Cape Colony Cape Town Captain cattle chief Church clans coast Colesberg Colonel command Company Council of Policy despatched Dingaan district Drakensberg Dutch East eastern eastward Emigrant Farmers England English established Europeans expedition favour Fingos Fish River fleet force frontier Gaika garrison Gcalekas Government Governor Graaff Reinet Grahamstown Griquas held High Commissioner Holland Hottentots hundred India Kaffir kraal land landdrost large number latter ment military missionaries Moshesh named Natal Natives Ndhlambi officers Orange Free Orange River Parliament party Port Potgieter President Pretorius proclamation Province raiding returned Sandile Secretary sent settlement ships Sir George Grey Sir Harry Smith slaves Somerset South Africa South African Republic Stellenbosch Swellendam Table Bay territory tion took place tract Transvaal treaty tribes troops Tulbagh Uitenhage Vaal vessels vicinity visited Volksraad wagons Xosas Zulus
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Page 187 - YOUR EXCELLENCY, — This day you have fought against my people and taken much cattle. As the object for which you have come is to have a compensation for Boers, I beg you will be satisfied with what you have taken. I entreat peace from you ; you have shown your power; you have chastised; let it be enough, I pray you, and let me be no longer considered an enemy of the Queen. I will try all I can to keep my people in order in the future. "Your humble servant, "MOSHESH.
Page 101 - Allow me, Sir, to recommend to your protection the inhabitants of this colony, whose happiness and welfare ever since I have been here were the chief objects of my care, and who conducted themselves during that period to my highest satisfaction. Give no credit in this respect to Mr. Barrow nor to the enemies of the inhabitants. They have their faults, but these are more than compensated by good qualities. Through lenity, through marks of affection, and benevolence, they may be conducted to any good.
Page 126 - On the whole, they formed a motley and rather unprepossessing collection of people. Guessing vaguely from my observations on this occasion, and on subsequent rambles through their locations, I should say that probably about a third part were persons of real respectability of character, and possessed of some worldly substance; but that the remaining twothirds were for the most part composed of individuals of a very unpromising description — persons who had hung loose upon society — low in morals...
Page 187 - Your Excellency, — This day you have fought against my people, and taken much cattle. As the object for which you have come is to have a compensation for the Boers, I beg you will be satisfied with what you have taken. I entreat peace from you...
Page 126 - ... in their demeanour. Lastly, there were parties of pauper agricultural labourers, sent out by the aid of their respective parishes, healthier perhaps than the class just mentioned but not apparently happier in mind, nor less generally demoralised by the untoward influence of their former social condition. On the whole, they formed a motley and rather unprepossessing collection of people.
Page 70 - ... man, to a certain degree, imitates the manners and customs of the nation with which he is chiefly concerned. The ladies, however, are so faithful to the mode of their country, that not one of them will stir without a chaudpied or chauffet, which is carried by a servant, that it may be ready to place under her feet whenever she shall sit down. This practice is the more remarkable, as very few of these chauffets have fire in them, which indeed the climate renders unnecessary. The women, in general,...
Page 147 - Urged to revenge and desperation by the systematic injustice of which they had been the victims, I am compelled to embrace, however reluctantly, the conclusion that they had a perfect right to hazard the experiment, however hopeless, of extorting by force that redress which they could not expect otherwise to obtain.
Page 126 - Camp. It consisted of several hundred tents, pitched in parallel rows or streets, and occupied by the middling and lower classes of emigrants. These consisted of various descriptions of people; and the air, aspect, and array of their persons and temporary residences were equally various. There were respectable tradesmen and jolly farmers, with every appearance of substance and snug English comfort about them. There were watermen, fishermen, and sailors from the Thames and English seaports, with the...
Page 126 - There were respectable tradesmen and jolly farmers, with every appearance of substance and snug English comfort about them. There were watermen, fishermen, and sailors, from the Thames and English sea-ports, with the reckless and weather-beaten look usual in persons of their perilous and precarious professions. There were numerous groups of palevisaged artisans and operative manufacturers, from London and other large towns, of whom doubtless a certain proportion were persons of highly reputable character...
Page 259 - We, the undersigned, colonists and inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, hereby solemnly declare and pledge our faith to each other, that we will not employ, or knowingly admit into our establishments or houses, work with or for, or associate with, any convicted felon or felons sent to this colony under sentence of transportation ; and that we will discountenance and drop connection with any person who may assist in landing, supporting, or employing such convicted felons.