Africa, Past and Present: A Concise AccountHodder & Stoughton, 1879 - 387 Seiten |
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afterwards appearance Arabs arrived Ashanti banks called canoes Cape Colony Cape Town Captain caravan Central Africa character chief Christian Church Church Missionary Society climate coast of Africa colony of Natal commenced considerable number continent cultivation desert distance districts Dutch Reformed church Eastern Egypt England English enterprise European expedition exploring extensive favourable fertile fever Fezzan frequently Gambia Gospel hope inhabitants island journey Kaffirs king labours lake land large number Livingstone Makololo miles mission schools mission stations Mohammedan mountains Mpwapwa N'yanza Namaqualand Natal native tribes navigation negroes neighbouring Niger party population Portuguese principal proceeded reached received regions residence respective river sailed season seen Senegal sent settlement settlers ships shore Sierra Leone slave trade slavery soon Southern Africa Timbuctu towns and villages travellers Ujiji various vessels visited Wesleyan Missionary Society Western Africa western coast whilst Zambezi Zanzibar Zulu
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Seite 28 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Seite 30 - ... though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I), who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image? — surely not ! Reflections like these, would not allow me to despair.
Seite 118 - But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Seite 376 - O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
Seite 120 - Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils ; but if God be for you who can be against you. Are all of them together stronger than God ? Oh ! be not weary of well-doing.
Seite 233 - For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater; so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth : it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Seite 34 - I shall only observe that no event which took place during the journey, ever threw the smallest gloom over my mind, till I laid Mr. Anderson in the grave. I then felt myself, as if left a second time lonely and friendless amidst the wilds of Africa.
Seite 138 - But history, in fixing these limits, does not take into account the indications furnished both by geography and by ethnography. At the north-east of the African Continent, from the sea to the equator, there extends an immense tract of country formed...
Seite 121 - God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade, and the reformation of manners," and when he wrote to his sister, " Be the love of Christ our talisman.
Seite 29 - I was anxiously looking around for the river, one of them called out, geo affili (see the water), and looking forwards, I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward.