Among the Zulus and Amatongas: With Sketches of the Natives, Their Language and Customs; and the Country, Products, Climate, Wild Animals, &c. Being Principally Contributions to Magazines and Newspapers |
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Page 402 - When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Page 195 - Amahlozi (spirits), the loss of which by death would be considered a token of desertion by the protecting spirits of her father's house, and the slaughter of which, in the event of any calamity (such as disease or barrenness), is an acceptable sacrifice.
Page 56 - I might receive some rambling statement with a considerable dash of truth — it being easy for anyone who knew anything of hunting to give a tolerably correct idea of their motions. However, I conceded this point also, and otherwise satisfied him. The Doctor then made eight little fires — that being the number of my hunters ; on each he cast some roots, which emitted a curious sickly odour and thick smoke ; into each he cast a small stone, shouting as he did so, the name to which the fire was...
Page 222 - The good old rule, The simple plan, That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can.
Page 56 - I did go. I stated what I wanted — information about my hunters — and I was met by a stern refusal. ' I cannot tell anything about white men,' said he, ' and I know nothing of their ways.' However, after some persuasion, and promise of liberal payment, impressing upon him the fact that it was not white men but Kaffirs I wanted to know about, he at last consented, saying ' he would open the gate of distance, and would travel through it, even although his body should lie before me.' " His first...
Page 57 - I was told where they were and what they were doing, and that in three months they would come out, but as they would not expect to find me waiting on them there so long after the time appointed, they would not pass that way. I took a particular note of all this information at the time, and to my utter amazement it turned out correct in every particular ! " It was scarcely within the bounds of possibility that this man could have had ordinary intelligence of the hunters. They were scattered about...
Page 194 - a mistake to imagine that a girl is sold by her father in the same manner, and with the same authority, with which he would dispose of a cow.
Page 146 - ... deviation from it for the simple reason that such a deviation is unusual. As Abraham Tucker observes, " it is a. constant argument among the common people, that a thing must be done, and ought to be done, because it always has been done.
Page 56 - This man" (correctly described) "has killed four elephants," and then he described the tusks. The next: "This man" (again describing him) "has been killed by an elephant, but your gun is coming home," and so on through the whole, the men being minutely and correctly described; their success or non-success being equally so. I was told where the survivors were, and what they were doing, and that in three months they would come out, but as they would not expect to find me waiting on them there so long...
Page 417 - The Government of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, and the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, deeming it advisable in the interests of both countries to regulate certain special matters of mutual concern, apart from the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, signed this day, have, through their respective plenipotentiaries...