Everard Tunstall, Volume 3; Volume 4251851 |
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Adrian advance Africander Amakosa Amatola Amatola mountains appeared arms Arneveld assegais attack band banks battalion of Hottentot bodies of Kaffirs Böers border chiefs British burghers bush camp Capetown carbine cattle close Clu Clu Colonel Smith Colonel Somerset's colonists colony command convoy Corps of Guides crossed dark defence detached duty enemy engaged English escort farm favour Fingoes firing ford forest Fort Beaufort frontier Gaika Governor Grahamstown guns halted hand head head-quarters heard herds hills Hintza horses invading Johanna Julia Kaffir war Kaffirland karosses Keiskamma kloofs kraal leave Macomo Marietjé ment miles mountains mounted Hottentots muskets night officers oxen party peace pickets plundering Port Elizabeth present rear rest river road rode Rosendal round scene seen sent shot side Sir Harry Smith Somerset spirit square of wagons Sundays River tents tribes troops Van Arneveld watch Winterberg woods wounded young
Popular passages
Page 133 - Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God : for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
Page 127 - Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand ; a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Page 133 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 165 - Have, then, thy wish!"— he whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe...
Page 133 - And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, And praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you : And my people shall never be ashamed.
Page 142 - You voluntarily placed yourself in our hands as a hostage ; you are, however, to look upon me as having full power over you, and if you attempt to escape, you will assuredly be shot. I consider my nation at peace with yours, and I shall not molest your subjects; provided they are peaceable. When they bring in the cattle according to your commands, I shall select the bullocks, and return the cows and calves to them.
Page 126 - Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
Page 141 - You have voluntarily placed yourself in our hands as a hostage; you are however to look upon me as having full power over you, and if you attempt to escape you will assuredly be shot. I consider my nation at peace with yours, and I shall not molest your subjects...
Page 128 - A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 127 - For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.