Ten Years in South Africa: Including a Particular Description of the Wild Sports of that Country, Tom 1

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Richard Bentley, 1835 - 352

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Strona 120 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Strona 156 - We twa hae paidled in the burn," when we entered his shop. Observing the lusty customer who darkened his door, Jamie quitted his plane, and addressed him, with a sly twinkle, in a jargon in which Dutch and broad Scotch were curiously intermingled. " Goe'n dag, Mynheer Botha ; hoo faar you the day ? " — " I come," answered Botha in his own language,
Strona 154 - He was at this period beginning to feel some alarm at his increasing dimensions, and took from time to time a journey in his waggon to Swellendam to consult the medical practitioner on his case. On these occasions, he would call on his way at Groot Vaders Bosch; but the doctor, who had killed many men without intending it, could not succeed by any means in checking the growth of his unwieldy patient, who began to fancy that he was afflicted with dropsy ; and he was confirmed in the idea by the opinions...
Strona 157 - Jamie cast a sly look at me as he made this proposal ; for he knew it was easier said than done. However, with the assistance of his sons, the old farmer, who had seated himself on the side of the bed, was gradually lowered down on his back, to the great danger of the conscious bedstead, which uttered sundry discontented creaks at the unusual weight imposed on it, which seemed to excite Jamie's fears not a little for his hastily-constructed couch. Poor Botha's sufferings in this position were so...
Strona 156 - Jamie Learmouth, a little sly drunken body, was hard at work at his bench, and singing one of our favourite Scotch songs, in a manner that showed he was more occupied with the words and the recollections to which they gave rise than the modulation of his "notes. He had just come to " We twa hae paidled in the burn,
Strona 153 - I am rather inclined to think that he had a secret suspicion that he himself was the object of my frequent visits to his abode. He was one of those monsters of obesity who are so often to be seen in this colony, and of whose appearance we can form but a faint conception from any common instance of the kind in England. He was literally a martyr to corpulence, his prodigious powers of digestion having nearly destroyed the exercise of his mental faculties. ' For several years Martinus Botha had not...
Strona 169 - The perfect apathy and sang-froid with which these serious arrangements were made were highly characteristic of the people.' — vol. ip 152. Mr. Moodie says elsewhere, and we can well believe every word of it, — ' Of all people I have ever seen, the Cape-Dutch are the coarsest and least polished in their manners. The conversation of both sexes is marked by an almost total absence of common decency : the most disgusting oaths are used on all occasions by the men ; and the women do not even feel...
Strona 157 - I can shune do that for ye," replied Jamie: " but is't for yoursel' ?" — " Yes, certainly." — "Faith, ye'll need a gude big ane," said the carpenter ; " but if ye 11 joost lay yersel' oot on the bed there, I'll shune tak yer measure." ' Jamie cast a sly look at me as he made this proposal ; for he knew it was easier said than done. However, with the assistance of his sons, the old farmer, who had seated himself on the side of the bed, was gradually lowered down on his back, to the great danger...
Strona 155 - That's true, father, -what you say," replied one of the young men, without altering a muscle of his countenance. 'My brother had two carpenters in an adjoining outhouse employed in making up various articles of furniture for sale among the farmers ; and to their workshop I accompanied our visiter. Jamie...
Strona 222 - Hottentot women," says Moodie, " are distinguished for uniting in tlu-ir persons the vices of both races. In point of* understanding, they are superior to the Hottentots ; and, by what I have seen of them, I should think that, under other circumstances, many of them would show a decided superiority over the Dutch. They assume it over the Hottentots, with whom they live, and hate the white population, to whose society they can never aspire. They are also a taller and stouter race than the Hottentots,...

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