Oriental Herald and Colonial Review, Volume 12James Silk Buckingham J. M. Richardson, 1827 |
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... ; While Freedom's flame it doth impart , And bid it pant for Liberty ! To raise the eternal wish to be Ne'er from Thy blest obedience free ! S. E. H. THE CAFFER FRONTIER . No. I. [ THE following Article 10 Lines . - By Miss S. E. Hatfield .
... ; While Freedom's flame it doth impart , And bid it pant for Liberty ! To raise the eternal wish to be Ne'er from Thy blest obedience free ! S. E. H. THE CAFFER FRONTIER . No. I. [ THE following Article 10 Lines . - By Miss S. E. Hatfield .
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James Silk Buckingham. THE CAFFER FRONTIER . No. I. [ THE following Article was drawn up while the writer was residing on the frontier of Caffer - land in the early part of the present year ( 1826 ) ; and the whole of the facts detailed ...
James Silk Buckingham. THE CAFFER FRONTIER . No. I. [ THE following Article was drawn up while the writer was residing on the frontier of Caffer - land in the early part of the present year ( 1826 ) ; and the whole of the facts detailed ...
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... frontier . For a short period , however , the fatal consequences of this mea- sure were rather apprehended than felt . The Caffer tribes , who some years before had been driven out of the Zureveld , were at peace with the colony ; and ...
... frontier . For a short period , however , the fatal consequences of this mea- sure were rather apprehended than felt . The Caffer tribes , who some years before had been driven out of the Zureveld , were at peace with the colony ; and ...
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... company , and Harding In the time of the old Cape Regiment , the baggage and necessaries of the Commando were in general carried by a few pack oxen . retired as Deputy Landdrost of Cradock , vice Vandergraaff , The Caffer Frontier . 13.
... company , and Harding In the time of the old Cape Regiment , the baggage and necessaries of the Commando were in general carried by a few pack oxen . retired as Deputy Landdrost of Cradock , vice Vandergraaff , The Caffer Frontier . 13.
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... frontier , previous to Nor was even the re - establishment of the regiment 14 The Caffer Frontier .
... frontier , previous to Nor was even the re - establishment of the regiment 14 The Caffer Frontier .
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affairs appears appointed army Arracan authority Barrackpore Bengal Bhurtpoor Bombay British Burmese Burmese war Cadet Caffers Calcutta called Cape Cape Corps Capt Captain Chairman Chittagong circumstances coffee Colonel colony command Company's conduct corps Council Court of Directors daughter doubt duty East India Edward Paget England English Ensign favour feel friends frontier gallant gentleman give Government Governor Governor-General hear honour Hume judge July July 26 June June 22 June 30 jury justice lady landdrost late letter libel Lieut Lieut.-Col Lord Amherst Lord Charles Somerset Lord JUSTICE CLERK Lordship Madras Majesty's Major ment military motion never object occasion officers opinion Oriental Herald papers parties passed persons possession present proceedings Proprietors question Rangoon regiment regt regulation rendered respect Sept ships Simon's Town Sir David Ochterlony Somerset thing tion town troops vote of thanks whole wish
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Page 495 - Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own.
Page 495 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 292 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night, and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was : he replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.
Page 495 - Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Page 494 - The rats gnawed his feet and clothes while asleep, which obliged him to cherish the cats with his goats' flesh ; by which many of them became so tame, that they would lie about him in hundreds, and soon delivered him from the rats. He likewise tamed some kids, and to divert himself would now and then sing and dance with them and his cats: so that by the...
Page 292 - When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travel, coming towards him, who was an hundred years of age.
Page 292 - And Abraham answered and said, Lord, he would not worship thee, neither would he call upon thy name, therefore have I driven him out from before my face, into the wilderness.
Page 291 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of heaven and earth?
Page 265 - Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan : A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which Man hath abandoned from famine and fear ; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the...