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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 155 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 88926 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 73 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 71 Africa 57 Mr. 49 South 49 Government 48 british 46 Cape 45 man 45 England 43 General 42 River 42 Boers 38 English 34 illustration 33 State 30 Sir 30 Lord 26 Nile 25 Transvaal 24 european 24 Free 23 day 23 Colonel 23 Captain 22 God 21 President 20 Natal 20 Arabs 19 Major 19 King 18 Egypt 18 Colony 17 french 17 Orange 16 Sultan 16 Boer 15 great 15 Town 15 Ladysmith 15 Dr. 14 Pretoria 14 CHAPTER 13 Lieutenant 13 Lake 12 Royal 12 Hill 12 Brigade 11 egyptian 11 Wet 11 Republic 11 Majesty Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11307 most 483 least 390 well 17 near 13 hard 8 highest 6 worst 6 lest 5 long 3 greatest 2 finest 2 fast 2 biggest 1 ¦ 1 youngest 1 warmest 1 ugliest 1 strangest 1 soon 1 slowest 1 slopes,--as 1 sayest 1 s''est 1 oldest 1 noblest 1 mildest 1 meanest 1 manifest 1 kroonstad.=--an 1 kindest 1 innermost 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32720/32720-h/32720-h.htm 1 heaviest 1 guiltiest 1 farthest 1 failed,--their 1 easiest 1 crest 1 close 1 boldest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 www.gutenberg.net 4 www.gutenberg.org 3 gallica.bnf.fr 2 charlz.dns2go.com 1 www.ebookforge.net 1 posner.library.cmu.edu 1 gallica.bnf.fr. 1 dp.rastko.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 3 http://gallica.bnf.fr 2 http://charlz.dns2go.com/gutenberg/ 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38389/38389-h/38389-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38389/38389-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32720/32720-h/32720-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32720/32720-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/7/6/27765/27765-h/27765-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/7/6/27765/27765-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/6/6/21661/21661-h/21661-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/6/6/21661/21661-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/2/5/21254/21254-h/21254-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/2/5/21254/21254-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/4/0/20400/20400-h/20400-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/4/0/20400/20400-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/1/9/20194/20194-h/20194-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/1/9/20194/20194-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/7/9/18794/18794-h/18794-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/7/9/18794/18794-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/6/7/16672/16672-h/16672-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/6/7/16672/16672-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/6/0/16600/16600-h/16600-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/6/0/16600/16600-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/3/9/16399/16399-h/16399-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/3/9/16399/16399-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/5/6/15561/15561-h/15561-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/5/6/15561/15561-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/2/4/15240/15240-h/15240-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/2/4/15240/15240-h.zip 1 http://www.eBookForge.net 1 http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/) 1 http://gallica.bnf.fr. 1 http://dp.rastko.net Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 139 _ see _ 40 men did not 35 boers did not 33 men were not 31 war is over 27 war was over 26 boers were not 26 enemy did not 26 people were not 25 men are not 23 people do not 22 _ is _ 22 africa is not 22 days gone by 22 men do not 22 people were very 21 country is very 21 man did not 21 time went on 20 people are not 19 government did not 18 _ was _ 18 boers do not 18 country is so 18 man was not 18 men were also 17 country is not 17 time had not 16 country is full 16 men were now 15 _ did _ 15 _ was not 15 enemy had not 15 force was now 15 men came in 14 boers are not 14 boers had not 14 boers were still 14 day was sunday 14 enemy was not 14 night came on 14 people are very 14 people were so 13 boers were now 13 country is more 13 country was so 13 enemy were not 13 men had not 13 people had not 13 water is not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 time had not yet 4 water is not far 3 africa is not only 3 boers made no attempt 3 enemy had not yet 3 men are not so 3 men made no effort 3 men were not very 3 war had not yet 2 _ was not yet 2 _ were not uncommon 2 africa is not open 2 africa is not so 2 boers had not as 2 boers making no attempt 2 boers were not only 2 country is not so 2 country saw no other 2 country was not far 2 day is not far 2 enemy made no attempt 2 enemy was not slow 2 force was not strong 2 forces did not immediately 2 government had no right 2 guns was not so 2 man had not yet 2 man has no more 2 man is no more 2 man was not dead 2 men are no good 2 men have no time 2 men were not long 2 part was not idle 2 people had not yet 2 people have no cattle 2 place is no more 2 time being no object 2 time passed not unpleasantly 2 time was not yet 2 war is not yet 2 water is not thus 1 _ are not responsible 1 _ being no other 1 _ did not _ 1 _ does not always 1 _ does not usually 1 _ had no purple 1 _ had no sleep 1 _ is no longer A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 10992 author = Abbott, Jacob title = Cleopatra date = keywords = Achillas; Alexander; Alexandria; Antony; Asia; Brutus; Caesar; Cassius; Cleopatra; Egypt; Nile; Octavius; Pompey; Pothinus; Ptolemy; Rome; egyptian; roman summary = Roman empire.--Cleopatra''s father.--Ptolemy''s ignoble birth.--Caesar and Roman power, about the time of Cleopatra''s birth, in a very striking and civil war between the great Roman generals Caesar and Pompey, and their Very soon after Cleopatra had come to him, Caesar sent for the young During all this time Cleopatra and Ptolemy remained in the palace with them were Roman soldiers, men who had come with the army of Mark Antony Caesar had, in the mean time, incurred great censure at Rome, and Antony, and made him for a time the most conspicuous man, as Cleopatra Not far from the time of Caesar''s death, Antony was married. house at Rome, Antony himself had gone with Cleopatra to Alexandria, and In the mean time, Antony gave himself up wholly to Cleopatra''s influence After a time, Antony and Cleopatra, with a magnificent train of In the mean time, Cleopatra and Antony, on their first return to Egypt, id = 40205 author = Abbott, Jacob title = History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt date = keywords = Achillas; Alexander; Alexandria; Antony; Brutus; Cassius; Cleopatra; Cæsar; Egypt; Nile; Octavius; Pompey; Ptolemy; Rome; egyptian; roman summary = years before the time of Cleopatra, Alexander the Great, when he subverted the kingdom to his son, Ptolemy Auletes, who was the great Cleopatra''s short time after this, Antony went back to Rome, and did not see Cleopatra Very soon after Cleopatra had come to him, Cæsar sent for the young During all this time Cleopatra and Ptolemy remained in the palace with men who had come with the army of Mark Antony from Syria when Ptolemy left in Egypt, in Ptolemy''s service, when Antony returned to Rome. Cæsar had, in the mean time, incurred great censure at Rome, and Not far from the time of Cæsar''s death, Antony was married. In the mean time, Antony gave himself up wholly to Cleopatra''s influence After a time, Antony and Cleopatra, with a magnificent train of In the mean time, Cleopatra and Antony, on their first return to Egypt, id = 40830 author = Anderson, Andrew A. title = Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in South Africa: Sport and Travel in South Africa date = keywords = Africa; Bay; Bengulu; Boers; Bushmen; Cape; Colony; East; English; Free; Government; Great; Kaffir; Kalahara; Kuruman; Limpopo; Mr.; Natal; Orange; South; State; Town; Transvaal; Vaal; Zambese; Zulu; country; river summary = the country was more open, and on a small branch of that river, close to THE NATIVE COUNTRY NORTH OF THE VAAL RIVER. spring of good water, and an open country, where we remained the night. large Kaffir station, close to a small branch of the Harts river, above Notuane river to the Great Marico road, the country is very dry and passing through forest and open country with native kraals situated on Debabe, a large native station, where the river turns south, branching the Limpopo river, an extent of country some 150 miles in length; and colonial side of the river, then turns north-west for 120 miles, winding the country that is situated on the north side of the Zambese river, up difficult and mountainous country, where large rivers would have to be open up the country on the south side of the Zambese river. id = 32720 author = Anonymous title = What We Saw in Egypt date = keywords = Cairo; Egypt; God; Hugh; Lucy; Mohammed; Nile; Roper; great; illustration summary = of vans contained four grown-up people and two children, Hugh and Lucy. We went into a large room, in which were long tables, and benches at "Yes," said Hugh, in a sleepy voice; and the next minute down went his "What sort of bed had you last night, Hugh?" Lucy asked. After a hearty laugh at the men who headed the procession, Hugh and Lucy Hugh and Lucy were impatient to see a real palace like those in old "They are crocodiles, Lucy," Hugh said; "marble crocodiles; and look at liked to see the pyramids as well as Hugh, but the ride from Cairo was "I should like to make one little Egyptian girl a Christian," said Lucy; Lucy took a great fancy to one little girl, and stood beside her, In old times this city was called Egyptian Babylon. as we neared it, we saw one large cliff which looked like a ruined id = 41069 author = Armistead, Wilson title = Calumny Refuted by Facts From Liberia With Extracts From the Inaugural Address of the Coloured President Roberts; an Eloquent Speech of Hilary Teage, a Coloured Senator; and Extracts From a Discourse by H. H. Garnett, a Fugitive Slave, on the Past and Present Condition, and Destiny of the Coloured Race. Presented to the Boston Anti-slavery Bazaar, U.S., By the Author of "A Tribute for the Negro." date = keywords = Africa; God; Liberia; Negro; Slavery; citizen; country; great; man; mind; race summary = of, and conducted wholly by Coloured men,--but, fellow-citizens, citizens made respectable and happy by the immediate hand of God, nations, the dictates of reason and of nature, nor the great duties path of duty or of justice: the weakness of human nature, and the "Fellow-Citizens:--As far back towards the infancy of our race, as high and sustained exertion in the cause of virtue and humanity. solemn possession of the land in the name of virtue, humanity, and "Let it not be supposed, because I have laid universal humanity of American Independence, ''That all men are free and equal.'' The wherein true honour lies--when men shall have formed correct ideas On the Past and Present Condition, and Destiny of the Coloured Race. On the Past and Present Condition, and Destiny of the Coloured Race. nature to elucidate a theory of general equality of races, it may be id = 42956 author = Ashe, Waller title = The Story of the Zulu Campaign date = keywords = Barrow; Buller; Captain; Cetywayo; Chelmsford; Colonel; Contingent; Crealock; Drift; Durnford; Ekowe; Fort; Garnet; General; Horse; Kambula; Lieutenant; Lord; Major; Natal; Pearson; Prince; Sir; Ulundi; Umvolosi; Wood; Zulus; british; english summary = victory--Death of Colonel Northey--English losses--Zulu force from Cetywayo--Advance to White Umvolosi--Wood''s camp--Lord square--Total numbers--Firing of kraals--Advance of Zulus party had covered twenty-seven miles, and the men and horses were as camp Buller''s men were fired upon, but the Zulus did not stand their near the Native Contingent camp, facing the hill over which the Zulu at once took command, and ordered out scouting parties of mounted men to the spot where, a few days before, a large force of Zulus had been seen take the Zulus in the rear, Colonel Wood kept his men for a few moments Zulu bank of the Tugela good camping-ground was passed, but the troops General Wood, having an engagement in camp, left Buller and his men with Zulu scouts were seen here and there, the column returned to camp, which Buller''s Horse for twenty miles round, and no Zulus were reported near. id = 35245 author = Badlam, Anna B. title = The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa date = keywords = Africa; Arabs; Bay; Boers; CHAPTER; Cape; Colony; Congo; Desert; Egypt; Egyptians; Europe; Falls; Free; Great; Guinea; Lake; Livingstone; Mediterranean; Mountains; Natal; Niger; Nile; Nyanza; Orange; River; Sahara; Sea; South; Stanley; State; Tunis; Victoria; Zambesi; european; illustration summary = This table-land does not attain any great elevation, but the rivers The third section, or Great Desert, extends south nearly to the Senegal, sand, but a region presenting great variety in its form and The rivers flowing south have a longer course and more volume of water For many years Africa was believed to be a land destitute of rivers in The chief great rivers of Africa are the Nile, the Niger, the Zambesi, Along its course, like the other great rivers of Africa, it is known by section of this semi-desert territory of South Africa water might be one time, a great fresh water lake. great rivers; that the country was but scantily watered, with only Thirty miles to the north the great Nile flows out of the lake and nine thousand miles in this great river basin. All the country for a great distance south of the river was once subject id = 22799 author = Baikie, James title = Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt date = keywords = Egypt; Egyptians; King; Nile; Pharaoh; Prince; Thebes; day; great; illustration; plate summary = No other country has so long a history of great Kings, great temples and tombs of Egypt were, many of them, hundreds of years but on the actual faces and forms of great Kings and soldiers who lived, pictures of how people lived in those far-away days, how their houses For the King of Egypt is a very great man indeed; in fact, his people Egyptians called "a wise little one." Then, when he was four years old, advice which a great King of long ago left to his son, the Crown Prince, they were told in those old days, the black eyes of the little Egyptian coming up to the gates of a great Egyptian temple in the days when it are the Pyramids, the tombs of the great Kings of Egypt in early days, great and good King called Osiris, who reigned over Egypt, and was very id = 3233 author = Baker, Samuel White, Sir title = In the Heart of Africa date = keywords = Abou; Africa; Arabs; Atbara; CHAPTER; God; Gondokoro; Grant; Ibrahim; Jali; Kamrasi; Khartoum; Mahomet; Nile; Saat; Sherrif; Soudan; Speke; Taher; Tokrooris; Turks; White; man summary = but the great event had occurred; the river had arrived "like a thief in Thus was the great river at work upon our arrival on its bank at the arms, head, legs, hands, appeared like a confused mass of dislocation; forward past the huge body, I fired the left-hand barrel at an elephant miles distant, to engage men, and to procure a slave in place of old Mahomet returned, accompanied by a large party of Hamran Arabs, these Hamran Arabs; the horse and man appeared to be one animal, and Some of our men, who had followed the runaway horses, shortly returned camel, men and others were engaged in cutting up the dead elephants, the On the following morning I sent ten of my men with a party of Ibrahim''s a few men to the bank of the river where we had landed the day before, id = 21704 author = Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title = Six Months at the Cape date = keywords = Africa; Bonny; Cape; Capetown; David; Grahamstown; Hobson; Johnny; Kafirs; Karroo; LETTER; River; South; day; great; look; man; time summary = Hobson''s farm is, as I have said, on the Karroo--those vast plains which until some of the party began to look like mere specks in the distance. son with his great compass-like legs, covering the ground in tremendous that time the natural homes of leopards or "Cape-tigers" and huge by that time in the vast plain--like a ship at sea without a compass. Hobson knew that the bird was in a rage, and said so, but his friends, along, drawn by two powerful horses, over the ocean-like plains, we were "They are powerful and savage fellows," said my friend, as he rose to upwards of seventy, and a large, stout man, I saw him mount his horse At the Great Fish River I came on a specimen of the mighty power of [see note 1], that the day is not far distant when a Cape man will id = 8213 author = Barrow, Katherine Mary title = Three Years in Tristan da Cunha date = keywords = April; Cape; Ellen; Friday; Glass; Graham; Green; Keytel; Monday; Mr.; Mrs.; Repetto; Rogers; Saturday; Sunday; Swain; Thursday; Tuesday; Wednesday; William summary = a girl of seventeen, next came in, then two little boys, and finally Mrs. Repetto. Mrs. Hagan, came in before the service to ask if Ellen "would come along _Wednesday, April_ l8.--On Monday, though not a very good day, the men boys came early, and Graham went down with them to the beach to get a load Repetto is a pupil of Graham''s, and comes every Friday evening to read To-day the men put up a washing-stone at the east end of the house. _Friday, June_ 22.--On Wednesday night Glass came in to ask Graham if he of children went to gather wood on Big Beach and got back home soon _Thursday, September 20_.--This afternoon Ellen and I went to look at Mrs. Hagan''s grey cow, which is slowly pulling round. _Monday, April_ l3.--To-day the schooner came in, but the men said it was id = 15520 author = Bennett, Ernest Nathaniel title = With Methuen''s Column on an Ambulance Train date = keywords = Aar; Boers; Capetown; England; Graspan; Mauser; Modder; River; british; bullet; dutch; man; train summary = attack upon a position held in force by the enemy, our men advance in We brought back a load of wounded men from this fight. Amongst a number of wounded men brought down by our train from Modder guns which was firing Lyddite shells at the enemy''s trenches. never saw a Boer the whole day." When the enemy are firing smokeless None of the Boers in the house were wounded before our men body of Boers standing together raised a white flag when our men We ran down to Orange River with our first load of wounded men, and just suddenly poured into the Brigade from the first line of Boer trenches at maintained their position actually within 200 yards of the Boer lines wounded men, but frequently shot at any one who came forward during the The trenches were of course manned day and night, but spare time was id = 16526 author = Bensusan, S. L. (Samuel Levy) title = Morocco date = keywords = Abd; Allah; Atlas; Djedida; Fez; French; Lord; M''Barak; Maalem; Marrakesh; Mogador; Moor; Morocco; Mulai; Salam; Sidi; Sultan; Tangier; day; european; illustration; man; moorish summary = the real Morocco remains a half-known land to-day, this book does not take Mid-day, or a little later, finds Salam in charge of a light meal, and, market-place and road to the landing-stage would be deserted, the gates of Mohammed, the old times come back by night, and then "a thousand years are terror into the hearts of evil men in return for a Moorish dollar a day, The little man is master of every turn in the road, and has only failed in Morocco to-day, master of a house and a household, drawing half the strange, far-off lands, who pass it every day. times remote a place of resting for the camels, like Tindouf in the Sus. But our Master recovered his lordship with his health, and the French went the traveller sees some city of old time in a light that suggests every as we did, after long days and nights in a country that affords little id = 45380 author = Blackburn, Henry title = Artists and Arabs; Or, Sketching in Sunshine date = keywords = Algeria; Algiers; Arabs; Blidah; England; Kabyle; Moors; Place; day; english; french; illustration; leave; like; little; moorish; work summary = to one of those frail-looking little boats with white awnings, that form houses set in bright green hills, or as the French express it, ''like bright blue sky, Algiers seems to us to be _the_ place to come to. appearances, are little likely to do anything great. There are little shops and dark niches where the Moors sit cross-legged, us in the illustrated history of the Cid. In the midst of the Moorish quarter, up a little narrow street (reached little white house, overlooking a beautiful city, on the North African costume and variety of race, French artists seem to make little use of the neighbourhood of Algiers, sketching in winter time in the open air. little Arab cemetery, about six miles from Algiers; on the heights Blidah, half Arab, half French, with its little population of European master the subject, and with a sketch of the little Moorish café with id = 13262 author = Blaikie, William Garden title = The Personal Life of David Livingstone Chiefly from his Unpublished Journals and Correspondence in the Possession of His Family date = keywords = Africa; Bishop; Boers; Bombay; Cape; Christ; David; Dr.; England; Expedition; Footnote; Geographical; God; Government; Jesus; Journal; Kuruman; Lady; Lake; Livingstone; London; Lord; Maclear; Missionary; Moffat; Mr.; Mrs.; Murchison; Nyassa; Portuguese; Roderick; Sekelétu; Sir; Society; Stanley; Thomas; Ujiji; Young; Zambesi; Zanzibar; christian; letter summary = used ever to speak with great respect of the chief achievement of Mr. Young''s life,--filling houses with a clear white light at a fraction of The long absence of Livingstone and the want of letters had caused great visit--Livingstone''s great satisfaction--Relations to London Missionary visit--Livingstone''s great satisfaction--Relations to London Missionary Officer--Disturbed state of the country--Trip to Kebrabasa Rapids--Dr. Livingstone applies for new steamer--Willing to pay for one Officer--Disturbed state of the country--Trip to Kebrabasa Rapids--Dr. Livingstone applies for new steamer--Willing to pay for one other places in London--Sad news of his son Robert--His early death--Dr. Livingstone goes to Scotland--Pays visits--Consultation with Professor other places in London--Sad news of his son Robert--His early death--Dr. Livingstone goes to Scotland--Pays visits--Consultation with Professor news--Livingstone''s goods and men at Bagamoio--Stanley''s accounts of news--Livingstone''s goods and men at Bagamoio--Stanley''s accounts of attack of ants--Greatness of Livingstone''s sufferings--Letters to Sir attack of ants--Greatness of Livingstone''s sufferings--Letters to Sir id = 8815 author = Blanc, Henry title = Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People date = keywords = Abyssinia; Amba; Bishop; Cameron; Debra; Emperor; Europeans; Flad; Gaffat; Galla; Gondar; King; Kourata; Magdala; Majesty; Massowah; Mr.; Plowden; Queen; Rassam; Samuel; Stern; Tabor; Theodore summary = Hut--Theodore''s Second Visit to the Amba--He sends for Mr. Rassam, Majesty to Magdala; arrived there, Theodore called for the Head of At the time Theodore sent Cameron with a letter Carpet--Cameron, with his Followers, is put in Chains--Mr. Bardel''s Return from the Soudan--Theodore''s Dealings with Cameron''s arrival Theodore sent several messages, asking, "Where The following day, during the march, Theodore sent Samuel backwards Instead of that Mr. Rassam took a half-way course; he told Theodore The following day Theodore sent repeated kind messages; but we did As soon as we reached Debra Tabor, the Emperor sent word to Mr. Rassam to come out with the other Europeans, as he had something this chief having sent a servant to Theodore to ask as a reward to The day of our arrival, and whilst the chiefs were reading Theodore''s The chief on the following day told me that, at the time, Theodore id = 20194 author = Brandt, Johanna title = The Petticoat Commando: Boer Women in Secret Service date = keywords = Boer; Botha; Camp; Captain; Carlo; Committee; Dr.; English; General; Governor; Hansie; Harmony; Johannesburg; Krause; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; Naudé; Pretoria; Secret; South; Warmelo; british summary = women, during the great Anglo-Boer war, to keep their men in the field Looking south-east from Harmony, Mrs. and Miss van Warmelo were able In this decision the President had been urged by his wife, and Mrs. van Warmelo went on to tell how the brave old lady had said to her in the van Warmelos, and one day her mother asked Hansie to request the Mrs. van Warmelo visited her daughter in the camp for the first time Captain Naudé also brought greetings from General Botha and told Mrs. van Warmelo how pleased the General had been with the news she had "Poor old General!" Hansie mused as she cycled slowly up to Mrs. Joubert''s house, where the spies were waiting for her. taken, told Mrs. van Warmelo that three Boer men had ridden out on Hansie''s place at Harmony and promised not to leave Mrs. van Warmelo id = 12101 author = Brawley, Benjamin Griffith title = A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia date = keywords = Africa; American; April; Boston; Carolina; Church; Co.; Colonization; Congress; England; General; George; Georgia; Henry; Indians; James; January; John; July; Liberia; Negro; Negroes; New; North; Philadelphia; President; Slavery; Society; South; St.; States; Thomas; United; University; Virginia; War; Washington; West; William; York; footnote; southern summary = history of the Negro people in the United States, and to present this years New England was more concerned about Indians than about Negroes, later history of the United States, Negroes were present at a very early white persons and three thousand Negroes, the Company having secured generally as Negro slavery advanced white servitude declined. Generally then, in the South, in the colonial period, the free Negro [Footnote 1: See Williams: _History of the Negro Race in America_, I, Negro men sailed from New York for Africa, November 12, 1774; but the passed a law to the effect that all free Negroes must leave the state to prominent Negroes in the free states bringing in question the general for a long time before the Civil War free Negroes could attend schools in the life of the Negro people in the United States to-day. status of the Negro even in the free states ten years before the Civil id = 7937 author = Bridge, Horatio title = Journal of an African Cruiser Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa date = keywords = Africa; Cape; Coast; Commodore; England; English; Fishmen; Governor; Grand; King; Leone; Liberia; Monrovia; Mr.; New; Palmas; Porto; Sierra; St.; United; american; british; french; man; native summary = Europe, along that coast, and of the native tribes, and their trade and New-Georgia Representative--A Slave-ship--Expedition up the St. Paul''s--Sugar Manufactory--Maumee''s beautiful grand-daughter--The Sleepy A large native tribe, the Grebo, dwells at Cape Palmas in the midst of the of New-York boys, at the landing of a foreign man-of-war''s boat. The natives are generally favorable to the slave-trade. interior, the native kings possess more power and assume greater state, large land-shells, which I brought on board a day or two ago. officers and men were carried off to them in the native canoes. Natives--Characteristics of English Merchant-Captains--Trade of England Natives--Characteristics of English Merchant-Captains--Trade of England attached to the vessel, and others trade-men, inhabiting the native towns. On the Gold Coast, each vessel employs a native who is called its Dutch Settlement at El Mina--Appearance of the Town--Cape Coast Dutch Settlement at El Mina--Appearance of the Town--Cape Coast id = 39971 author = Browne, Abdullah title = Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day date = keywords = Ali; Beys; Bonaparte; Cairo; Christians; Cromer; East; Egyptians; England; English; Europe; French; General; Government; Islam; Lord; Mahomed; Mamaluks; Moslem; Pacha; Press; Sheikhs; Sultan; Ulema; european; people; turkish summary = difference between the Egyptian and all European peoples that, as it moulding the present-day aspect of Egypt and its people, and the more Of the people of the country the French during their advance saw religion of the Egyptian Moslem that unfits him to govern his country. But the French, knowing nothing of the true feelings of the people, attitude of the people of Egypt towards the French. seen, the better class of the people and the Moslem rulers in general people of Egypt or their history, the French could not see that while French, and three times the people--though on two occasions most The three years of French rule in Egypt had been to the people an Mamaluks or the French, and if the people had but little to enjoy they people--the Ulema, who in all times and in all countries have always id = 22323 author = Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount title = Impressions of South Africa date = keywords = Africa; America; Bay; Bechuanaland; Boers; Britain; Cape; Colonies; Colony; Commissioner; Company; Dutch; England; English; Europe; Footnote; Free; Government; Johannesburg; Kafirs; Mashonaland; Matabili; Matabililand; Mr.; Natal; Orange; President; Republic; River; South; State; Town; Transvaal; Zambesi; british; chapter; european summary = GENERAL FEATURES OF THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY''S TERRITORIES 268 Republic, and all the territories of the British South Africa Company, governments of the two British colonies and the two Boer republics, territories of the British South Africa Company that a political native territory which lies just where Cape Colony, the Orange Free the third great native power in South Africa, the other two being that maintaining the Kafirs between the Boer state and Cape Colony, the Transvaal people had very little to do with the British government. great trunk-line runs north-eastward from Cape Town to a place called De government of his country, founded the British South Africa Company and several States and Colonies of South Africa under the British Crown. both on the Dutch of Cape Colony, and on the people of the Free State, recommend to the English in South Africa and to the British Government id = 34548 author = Buchan, John title = The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction date = keywords = Africa; Boer; Cape; Colony; Crown; East; England; Europe; Government; Johannesburg; Kaffir; Limpopo; Natal; Orange; Pretoria; Rand; Rhodesia; River; South; State; Transvaal; Zambesi; british; country; dutch; english; european; good; great; life; little; man; native; new; old; portuguese; veld summary = political problem as it has to be faced in South Africa to-day will not the far lands of travellers'' tales, the country of rich grass and average country farmer in the new colonies, and not the thrown open to the old grain-lands of Cape Colony; but if the long The land problem in the new colonies is partly political and partly River Colony may well become countries of large and prosperous countries of the world grow more populous, South Africa may yet play 29 million acres, the Crown lands of the Orange River Colony to under The native races south of the Zambesi present a curious problem to the colonial self-government; among the Boers, at least in the Transvaal, a between white men which will long have their place in South African is given to the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony, the South In the new colonies the chief force is the South African id = 5760 author = Burton, Richard Francis, Sir title = Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1 date = keywords = Africa; Bákele; Cape; Chaillu; Coast; Congo; Corisco; Dr.; English; Fernando; Forteune; Fán; Gaboon; Gorilla; Island; King; Lopez; Mbátá; Mpongwe; Mr.; Ogobe; Plateau; Point; Rev.; River; South; Walker; West; Wilson; french; like; man summary = The Gaboon River and Gorilla Land. Landing at the Rio Gabão (Gaboon River).--le Plateau, the French natives called Pongára, and by the French Péninsule de MarieAmélie, shows a mere fringe of dark bristle, which is tree, based At the time of my visit, the Gaboon River had four English wanderings in Gorilla land, I often observed tall and mushroomshaped trees standing singly, and wearing the semblance of the the Rembwe River, the south-eastern line of the Gaboon fork, and number of sweet little water-courses break the shore-line as far Great and Little; Corisco Island, which we shall presently visit; Great and Little Elobi, called by old travellers Mosquito Yet the Mpongwe do not, like other tribes on the west saw during my three years upon the West African Coast,--a great The Bákele appeared to me very like the coast tribes, only id = 5761 author = Burton, Richard Francis, Sir title = Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2 date = keywords = A.D.; Africa; Banza; Boma; Captain; Coast; Congo; Dahome; Ditto; Dr.; English; Expedition; Gaboon; Gidi; Island; King; Lake; Lenha; Livingstone; Loanda; Loango; Mavunga; Merolla; Mr.; Niger; Nile; Nkulu; Nokki; Point; Porto; River; September; Sonho; São; Tuckey; West; Yellala; Zaire; french; man; portuguese summary = ruled as far as the Congo River, who used to eat in one house, Steaming onwards, at one mile off shore, we turned from southeast to south-west, and presently rounded the north-east point of the coast-line some 75 miles: Beginning with the Congo River, it dark-green waters tell us, we shall be in the Congo River. Into the Congo River.--the Factories.--trip to Shark''s Point.-the days when European ideas concerning the Congo River were called Zaire on the River Congo, to trade for elephants'' teeth, earldom of Sonho, bounded north by the Congo River and south by this beautiful country," The sea-like river wants nothing but trough of the Congo, and the landing-place of Banza Nokki below native travellers that the river 600 miles up country was still The language of the people on and near the Congo River is called id = 6886 author = Burton, Richard Francis, Sir title = First Footsteps in East Africa date = keywords = A.D.; A.M.; Abban; Abyssinia; Aden; Africa; Ali; Allah; Amir; Arabia; Arabs; Awal; Ayyal; Bedouins; Berberah; Caffilah; December; Eastern; Eesa; Gallas; Gerad; Gerhajis; Gudabirsi; Habr; Hajj; Hammal; Harar; India; Lieutenant; Mohammed; Moslem; P.M.; Ras; Sharmarkay; Shaykh; Somal; Speke; Sultan; Time; Tobe; Warsingali; Yemen; Zayla; end; man summary = and camels carrying water-skins from the town; they were under guard like ground near Zayla: as Ibn Said declared in old times, "the people have no We halted that day at Kuranyali, preparing water and milk for two long times the ruler of Aden, the chief of Zayla, the Hajj''s son, a boy, an old small presents, and an old Girhi Bedouin, generally known as Said Wal, or two days'' journey between the Eesa Somal, and Harar: on the south, are The present city of Harar is about one mile long by half that breadth. That day we had travelled at least thirtyfive miles without seeing the face of man: the country was parched to a arrived within four miles of Berberah: the End of Time and Long Guled, the same in the Northern Somali country; and in both places the people After a five miles'' march the travellers came to a place called id = 14299 author = Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Grey title = Native Races and the War date = keywords = Africa; Boers; Cape; Colony; Convention; England; English; God; Government; Kruger; Mackenzie; Mr.; President; Queen; Sir; South; State; Transvaal; british summary = condition of the native races, both in the Transvaal, and at the hands Boers, Moshesh, their Chief, appealed to the British Government for expecting to win over the Transvaal Boers, when the British Government, principles of British government, a General Election takes place in great objection many of the Boers had, and still have, to English law, long time resident in South Africa, has sent to a friend in London a To most people in South Africa who knew the Boers it was quite plain good Government in the Transvaal--justice to the natives, the ''You come from South Africa, do you,'' said the great man; ''a place where native people to the Transvaal Government, and on the other hand to do THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND LAW. these principles of British Government and Law, so far as they have been A friend who has lived in South Africa, and who has had natives working id = 18506 author = Cameron, Verney Lovett title = To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II date = keywords = Africa; Akankon; Ancobra; Ashanti; Axim; Blay; Cameron; Cape; Captain; Coast; Company; Dr.; Effuenta; England; English; French; Gold; Government; Governor; Grant; Hill; King; Krumen; Leone; March; Messieurs; Mount; Mr.; Prince; River; Sierra; St.; Tumento; Tákwá; West; european; footnote; man; work summary = working the land seventeen miles down coast, and planting cocoa-nuts, ''Gold Coast Mining Company.'' Mr. Creswick treated the subject in ''Life mining establishments; the ''Akankon House,'' near the landing-place; the water, has in places been worked for gold by the women, but much remains yellow loam showed the normal Gold Coast metalling of iron-stone and an idea that when ''the gold turns white'' it is uncanny to work the place; (Tákwá [Footnote: Alias the African Gold Coast Company, whose shareholders the range of hills on which the concessions of the Gold Coast Mining I place the African Gold Coast Company, by rivulet, rising close to the works of the Gold Coast Company. came to pass that the Gold Coast, if so rich, has not been worked before The preceding notes show that the natives of the Gold Coast, and of West must do their work on the Gold Coast:-- id = 8821 author = Cameron, Verney Lovett title = To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I date = keywords = Africa; Bathurst; Bay; Canaries; Canary; Cape; Captain; Coast; Cristobal; Cruz; Don; England; English; Europe; Funchal; Gambia; General; Gold; Government; Grand; Guanche; Island; Juan; July; Laguna; Las; Leone; Lieutenant; London; Madeira; Mr.; Orotava; Palmas; Porto; Portuguese; River; Royal; Santa; Sierra; St.; Tenerife; West; footnote; french; like summary = well-watered little harbour-city may be called a two-dinner-a-day place, [Footnote: _Six Years of a Traveller''s Life in Western Africa._ than a score of years ago, remains as it was; The landing-place calls Near the refuge-house called the Poizo, some 4,500 feet above sea-level, [Footnote: It is placed west instead of east of Cape Girao in the towered churches and their large whitewashed houses, look more like peaks; we see boys perched like birds upon impossible places, and men the Town House, near the Jesuit church, is rich in old volumes, mostly right or south, [Footnote: The town of Santa Cruz runs due north and [Footnote: Near the dirty little square south of the Custom House. [Footnote: A gorge lying to the north of the town, like the like Santa Cruz, lies at the foot of a high sea-wall, whose straight and market, a fine, solid old building like that of Santa Cruz, containing id = 13235 author = Childers, Erskine title = In the Ranks of the C.I.V. date = keywords = A.M.; August; Battery; Boers; Captain; General; Infantry; July; June; Pretoria; Roberts; September; Wet; Williams; Yeomanry; camp; day; gun; horse; night summary = "We worked till long after dark, slept like logs in the dismantled day, when we landed the horses--of which, by the way, we had only lost a sudden order came to raise camp, and march to Stellenbosch. day we ride bareback to water horses at the re-mount depot, passing guns and horses, harnessed up, and marched over a mile and a half of camp was only a spot upon the hill-side, the guns and horse-lines in of camp life, with great hopes of soon being thought worthy to join a _(4.30)._--We have had a hard day''s marching a long distance out on time; but I would much prefer to march on and see the last of De Wet. After campaigning, the routine of a standing camp seems dull and day, and then marched on till five, when we camped. lived with and for two horses day and night for eight months!) Perhaps id = 14426 author = Churchill, Winston title = London to Ladysmith via Pretoria date = keywords = Boers; Brigade; Buller; Colenso; Fusiliers; General; Government; Hill; Horse; Imperial; Infantry; Ladysmith; Light; Monte; Mr.; Natal; Potgieter; Pretoria; Redvers; Sir; South; Tugela; british; man summary = line of hills necessary for the protection of the town, but a position hills beyond Colenso at full speed--and some said that the Boers did not horse the foot: the Dublin Fusiliers wound up the hill like a long brown The Boer guns, swiftly changing their position, re-opened We waited here near the guns for half an hour, and meanwhile the Boers Before the war began men said: ''Let them come into Natal and Two days later the Boers cut the railway south of Ladysmith at Pieters, The Boer lines run in a great crescent along the hills. in question--New Year''s Day to wit--200 Boers set forth and attacked our silent Boer position, and the range of hills along which it stretched hundred Boers moving towards distant hills, to make sure of their line right, which rested on the lofty hill--almost mountain--of Spion Kop. The Boers, to meet this turning movement, extended their line westwards id = 4943 author = Churchill, Winston title = The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan date = keywords = Abu; Ahmed; Arabs; Atbara; Berber; Camel; Colonel; Corps; Dongola; Egypt; Emir; General; Gordon; Government; Halfa; Hamed; Khalifa; Khartoum; Mahdi; Metemma; Nile; Omdurman; Osman; Sirdar; Soudan; Soudanese; Suakin; british; dervish; egyptian summary = the river and the thirsty men lay the Dervish army, infuriated by their river miles of mud houses, lining the banks as far as Khor Shambat, and camel-men, but by a strong force of Dervishes, numbering at least 1,500 Dervish Emir, Wad Bishara, concentrated his remaining forces in Dongola. Sirdar could not advance on Dongola with a strong Dervish force on his day long the army remained halted by the palms of the Nile bank. Dervish army, at least 10,000 men, both horse and foot, and formed in the Khalifa broke up his camp, and the Dervish army marched back for a The Egyptian army was concentrated; the British brigade had arrived; the right, the Egyptian cavalry force, however, remained on the left flank, Scarcely three miles away the Dervish army was advancing with the continuous advance of the great army compelled the Egyptian cavalry to id = 12539 author = Corry, Joseph title = Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa The religion, character, customs, &c. of the natives; with a system upon which they may be civilized, and a knowledge attained of the interior of this extraordinary quarter of the globe; and upon the natural and commercial resources of the country; made in the years 1805 and 1806; with an appendix, containing a letter to Lord Howick, on the most simple and effectual means of abolishing the slave trade date = keywords = Africa; Bance; CHAPTER; Cape; Coast; England; Gambia; Goree; Island; Leone; Lord; Mr.; Palmas; Pongo; Rio; Sierra; St.; Windward; country; great; lordship; observation summary = coast of Africa, to command the interior commerce of the countries established to influence the trade of the foregoing rivers, form the The natives of Africa resident upon the coast, are uniformly considered as _Observations upon the natural Productions of the River Sierra Leone.--The _Observations upon the natural Productions of the River Sierra Leone.--The _Return to Bance Island.--General Observations on the Commerce, Religion, _Return to Bance Island.--General Observations on the Commerce, Religion, state of commerce upon the Windward Coast of Africa, the merchandize used Inhabitants.--The State of Barbarism and Slavery considered.--The Condition Inhabitants.--The State of Barbarism and Slavery considered.--The Condition customs, and country of Africa are indispensibly requisite, its chiefs and From all I have stated, the great importance of these countries, to open an What I have said relative to the present state of the natives of Africa, _Bance Island, River Sierra Leone, Coast of Africa,_ id = 23692 author = Creswicke, Louis title = South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 date = keywords = Africa; Boers; Cape; Colonel; Colony; Commissioner; Convention; Dr.; Free; General; Government; Jameson; Johannesburg; Kruger; Majesty; Mr.; Natal; President; Pretoria; Prince; Republic; River; Sir; South; State; Transvaal; Zulus; article; british summary = South African Republic, which led to British claims to Delagoa Bay. Boer protest against British rule at a mass meeting held in December British Government put a stop to Boer raids into Zululand, and Question of "commandeering" British subjects raised in South African informed that the Boers were still British subjects, and a letter from the Home Government to Sir George Napier was received, stating natural right of the Boers to all the land of the Transvaal. people, or to try a free form of government suited to South Africa. Colonies and States of South Africa," and at the same time declared that We Boers know that we will not be governed by a set of British Government of the Transvaal State without her Majesty''s consent effect will receive from the Government of the Transvaal State such Whereas, the Government of the Transvaal State, through its id = 26198 author = Creswicke, Louis title = South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 date = keywords = Artillery; Battalion; Boers; Brigade; Cape; Captain; Colonel; Field; Fusiliers; General; Guards; Infantry; Ladysmith; Lieutenant; Light; Lord; Major; Mounted; Natal; Regiment; River; Royal; Sir; british; illustration summary = 21.--General French, with about 2000 men, attacked a Boer force Lieutenant-Colonel Metcalfe, 2nd Rifle Brigade, with 500 men Officer Commanding Mounted Major and Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Officer Commanding Mounted Captain and Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Pretoria, left that place for Cape Town; and on the 14th General Sir Boers retreated, and the troops remained some ten miles from Ladysmith, and skirmishes between advance parties of British troops and Boers were The Boer force engaged in this action was computed at 4000 men, of whom Highlanders under Lieutenant-Colonel Dick-Cunyngham, V.C. At 3.30 P.M. General White arrived on the scene, but the executive the artillery fire of the enemy, the Boers having moved their guns. position to storm the Boer camp from the enemy''s front and left flank, that while Colonel Grimwood was shelling the Boer position to the north Colonel Hamilton, was to attack a hill where the enemy was in force, id = 36866 author = Creswicke, Louis title = South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 8) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts''s Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 date = keywords = Africa; Boers; Brigade; Canadian; Cape; Captain; Colonel; Contingent; General; Government; Horse; Infantry; January; Kop; Lieutenant; Light; Lord; Major; Mounted; New; Regiment; Rifles; Royal; Sir; South; Spion; british; illustration summary = Two British officers captured by Boers near Chieveley. Colonel Dalgety with Mounted Police and Colonial troops held General Gatacre repulsed Boer attack on position commanding half miles to the south, to get out of range of the Boer big guns which the following officers of Lord Roberts''s Staff:--Major-General G. following day a shell from a Boer 100-pounder struck a store, sending order: "The officer commanding the Royal Canadian Regiment is desired by men of the Royal Canadian Regiment." The Colonel particularly New Year''s Day was a great occasion for the Colonial troops. guns; and a horse battery under Major de Rougemont; 30 Mounted Infantry the Naval guns laid on to the Boer positions by day, with the order that Colonel, two Majors, and four other officers of the Light Horse colonels commanding Yeomanry regiments, or to General Officers force consisting of 23,000 infantry, 11,000 mounted men, and 48 guns, id = 38768 author = Creswicke, Louis title = South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 4 (of 8) From Lord Roberts'' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree date = keywords = Africa; Bloemfontein; Boers; Brigade; Cape; Captain; Colonel; Cronje; Drift; February; Free; French; General; Government; Hill; Imperial; Infantry; Kimberley; Lieutenant; Lord; Mafeking; Major; Mr.; Regiment; Roberts; Royal; Second; Sir; South; State; british; dutchman; illustration summary = CAPTURE OF A BOER CONVOY BY GENERAL FRENCH''S TROOPS 40 15.--General French reached and relieved Kimberley, captured Boer laager Sir Redvers Buller''s force captured the Boer position at Pieters. British cannonading then took place, the Kimberley guns shelling Tollpan largest force ever commanded by a British General--was a feat scarcely "General Gordon''s brigade, far away on the left, was ordered to bring up [Illustration: CAPTURE OF A BOER CONVOY BY GENERAL FRENCH''S TROOPS NEAR for four days without food against a large force of Boers. Pretyman said, "Commandant Cronje, sir!" The two great men looked at fifty guns and howitzers, the number of Boer wounded was said to amount Cristo Ridge till the Boer line had been turned and the British forces Boers having vacated all their positions south of the river, and on the some kopjes held by the enemy when some Boers suddenly advanced on them. id = 41017 author = Creswicke, Louis title = South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 5 (of 8) From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Roberts''s Entry into Pretoria date = keywords = Bloemfontein; Boers; Brigade; Captain; Colonel; Division; General; Guards; Hamilton; Horse; Infantry; Lieutenant; Lord; Mafeking; Major; Mounted; Rifles; River; Roberts; Royal; Yeomanry; british; illustration summary = =4.=--Capture of British troops by the Boers near Reddersburg. =5.=--General Villebois killed near Boshop, and party of Boer At this time up came U Battery, with Roberts''s Horse on their left. Boers, the guns came into action, and continued, in the face of horrible "When the order came for the guns to retire, ten men and one officer to the Boer commander, I turned my horse round (I was then three yards command of the Third Division _vice_ Lieutenant-General Sir W. Mounted Infantry, General Pole-Carew advanced his division and baggage was occupied by Lord Roberts on the 3rd of May, the Boers, under General officer wounded in General Pole-Carew''s Division was Lieutenant the the Boers, a day''s halt was ordered at Jacobsrust, as General Hamilton''s horses, under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick 19th Brigade--Colonel (Major-General) H. 19th Brigade--Colonel (Major-General) H. 19th Brigade--Colonel (Major-General) H. Guards Brigade--Colonel (Major-General) I. id = 46303 author = Creswicke, Louis title = South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 6 (of 8) From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger''s Departure from South Africa, with a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901 date = keywords = African; Army; Boers; Brev; Brigade; Cape; Captain; Colonel; D.S.O.; Despatches; General; Guards; Horse; Infantry; Lieutenant; Lord; Major; Mounted; Mr.; Natal; Pretoria; Regiment; River; Royal; Sir; South; Staff; War; Wet; Yeomanry; british; egyptian summary = 11.--Lord Methuen gained a complete victory over De Wet. 12.--Almond''s Nek having been forced the previous day, the Boers Infantry were compelled to retire from a steep hill above the Nek. 25.--Lord Roberts''s force reached Balmoral on the way to Middelburg. East Surrey Regiment, severely wounded; Captain Mansel, Second Lieutenant promoted Captain); South African War, 1879 (Despatches; medal with clasp; the Forces, Headquarters of Army, 1890-97; Lieutenant-General commanding Lieutenant-Colonel); South African War, 1899-1900; (Despatches). the Forces, Headquarters of Army, 1896-99; Lieutenant-General, Infantry Major-General Infantry Brigade, South Africa, 1899. Major-General Infantry Brigade, South Africa, 1899. Major-General Infantry Brigade, South Africa, 1899. South African War, 1899-1900, severely wounded; Commanding Mounted Commanding-in-Chief the Forces, South Africa, 1899; Staff Officer for War, 1879 (Despatches; medal with clasp; Brevet of Major); South African Lieutenant-General, Infantry Division, South Africa, April 1900; _War Army, 1895-97; Colonel on Staff, Commanding Cavalry Brigade, S.E. District, 1897-99; Major-General, Cavalry Division, Aldershot, 1899; id = 47132 author = Creswicke, Louis title = South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 7 (of 8) The Guerilla War, from February 1901 to the Conclusion of Hostilities date = keywords = Battery; Boers; Botha; Cape; Captain; Colonel; Colony; Field; General; Government; Horse; Imperial; Infantry; Kitchener; Lieutenant; Lord; Major; Mounted; Orange; R.F.A.; Regiment; River; Royal; South; Transvaal; Wet; Yeomanry; british; column summary = APRIL, ORANGE RIVER COLONY--OPERATIONS OF GENERAL BRUCE-HAMILTON NIGHT ATTACK ON A BOER CONVOY BY MOUNTED INFANTRY UNDER COLONEL 25.--General Dartnell''s force surprised Boers near Bethlehem and Wales Mounted Infantry under Colonel Cox. 28.--Capture of Boers near Steynsdorp by Captain Holgate Diamond Field Artillery (13-19), 1 M.G. COLUMNS ENGAGED IN MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLES KNOX''S OPERATIONS IN CENTRAL COLUMNS ENGAGED IN MAJOR-GENERAL ELLIOT''S OPERATIONS IN NORTHERN the columns of General Dartnell and Colonel Pulteney, moved on THE ATTACK UPON THE BOER WAGGONS BY COLONEL DE LISLE''S FORCE GENERAL BRUCE-HAMILTON''S OPERATIONS, ORANGE RIVER COLONY (SOUTH) GENERAL BRUCE-HAMILTON''S OPERATIONS, ORANGE RIVER COLONY (SOUTH) ORANGE RIVER COLONY, N.--COLONEL RIMINGTON--BRIGADIER-GENERAL ORANGE RIVER COLONY, N.--COLONEL RIMINGTON--BRIGADIER-GENERAL taken over command of General Dixon''s column), Colonel Allenby set ORANGE RIVER COLONY, E.--MAJOR-GENERAL ELLIOT--AUGUST ORANGE RIVER COLONY, E.--MAJOR-GENERAL ELLIOT--AUGUST mounted troops of Colonel Jenner and Major Gough, with four R.H.A. guns, made a laborious night march of 35 miles from a farm north of id = 14297 author = Davis, Richard Harding title = The Congo and Coasts of Africa date = keywords = Africa; Boma; Calabar; Coast; Congo; East; King; Leopold; Matadi; New; State; West; Zanzibar; american; english; french; german; illustration; portuguese summary = slave trade, the West Coast, as it is to-day, is difficult to As the ship was getting under way, a young man in "whites" and a sun "State," saw for the existence of the Congo only two reasons: Rubber human beings, can accomplish in the Congo as great and good work as But Fanny never liked her black uncles; on the steamer the Kroo boys office of the captain of the port, looks like a junk-shop for old the American Congo Company the people of this country will know it, In the Congo, a white man standing in the sun without a hat is a In the French Congo the natives are permitted to trade; in the In Leopold''s Congo "trade" in the Congo, are called "white man''s goods" and were of excellent miles away in the Congo Free State, and in "trade" goods, these are id = 18794 author = De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf title = Three Years'' War date = keywords = African; Boer; Botha; British; Chief; Colony; Commandant; Commander; English; Free; General; Government; Kitchener; Kroonstad; Lord; Majesty; Mr.; Orange; President; Republic; River; South; State; Steyn; Wet summary = Commander-in-Chief of these Free State burghers, as well as of those who gave General Cronje the chief command over the Free State burghers at The following morning a large force again left the English camp and took chapter occurred, I handed over the command to Generals Piet de Wet and force, I sent men out to visit the farms of those burghers who had gone Transvaal burghers, having arrived in the Free State a few days The two Governments had agreed that Commandant General Louis Botha General Philip Botha, with the burghers from Vrede under Commandant officers met the Government, namely, the Commandant-General, General Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty''s forces in South Africa; General Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty''s forces in South Africa; General Commander-in-Chief, Orange Free State. Commandant-General Botha should propose a term that very day before the Commandant-General Botha: "I think that the burghers have the right to id = 22118 author = Delany, Martin Robison title = Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party date = keywords = Africa; America; Campbell; Convention; Delany; Dr.; Esq; Lagos; Liberia; Monrovia; Mr.; President; Rev.; Society; States; United; West summary = carry out my scheme at this juncture, Livingstone''s great work on Africa Africa, and an inquiry into the state and condition of the people of Colored Persons, held at Chatham, C.W., to proceed to Africa, and SIR--By a Convention of Colored People of the United States and the The native fever which is common to all parts of Africa, in Liberia persons going to Africa, I shall speak more pointedly of the domestic or the African race, of the United States and the Canadas in America, person of integrity, a friend of my race and of Africa. idea of markets in the great cities of Africa: Liberia; and even the _native fever_, for known causes, generally is In my entire travels in Africa, either alone or after meeting with Mr. Campbell at Abbeokuta, I have neither seen nor heard of any Roman The missionary has informed him that the white man''s country is great. id = 15240 author = Dorman, Marcus Roberts Phipps title = A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State date = keywords = Africa; Boma; Chief; Congo; Europeans; General; Government; Governor; Leopoldville; Mission; Mr.; Post; Stanley; State; Ubangi; french; illustration; native; river summary = is the native village, consisting of square huts and rough gardens in little evidence to show that the natives of the Congo ever sacrificed It is impossible to form any idea of the Congo native in Boma, for the Many native villages exist near Leopoldville, consisting of huts formed Next day we stop at Bobanghe, a native Wood-Post, and go ashore. two days and the rest of the time the native works for himself or not The banks of the river are here lined with villages and each time we some days'' journey from the river and feels quite safe, for the natives side of the river, _i.e._ in the French or the State Congo, and be able elephant from the State, and the natives on each bank wished the white Next day I walk through the native villages near Ibembo where most of There are a few large villages on the banks where the natives id = 8185 author = Douglas, Norman title = Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia date = keywords = Africa; Arabs; Chapter; Chott; Dufresnoy; Frenchman; Gafsa; Jebel; Metlaoui; Monsieur; Nefta; Sfax; Sidi; Tozeur; Tunisia; day; french; illustration; life; like; oasis; palm; place; roman; thing; water summary = that point; leaving Sfax by a night train, you arrive at Gafsa in the Well, a short time ago some Arabs brought him a handful of distant glimpse of the oasis of Gafsa--a harmonious line of dark palm Gafsa; the structures would melt away, like that triple wall of defence, Here stand, like sentinels at the end of all things living, the three or venerable instrument any day you like, being carried on a man''s back to the Arabs; such things occur every day. There would be better shops in places like Gafsa if foreign commercial Arabs," as exemplified by the life of Gafsa. cities have their charms, but the misery at intermediate places like Gafsa knows not a word of French or Arabic. French to appropriate the water springs of Sidi Mansur, near Gafsa, I Arabs will tell you that there are 194 water springs at Tozeur; they are id = 37712 author = Doyle, Arthur Conan title = The Crime of the Congo date = keywords = A.B.I.R.; Belgium; Boma; Commissary; Commission; Congo; Europe; Free; Government; King; Leopold; Mr.; State; belgian; british; man; native; rubber summary = wrought in the Congo lands by King Leopold of Belgium and his followers to own work, Stanley laboured hard among the native chiefs, and returned to the fall of the Arab power the Congo Free State was only called upon to Already the Congo State was largely the outcome of Belgian work and of King Leopold let it be known that he had left the Congo Free State in his State within this district, (1) natives can only gather rubber on received by the general public from the Congo Free State concerned the Having shown in these two examples the way in which the Congo Free State sent in every direction, forcing natives to make rubber and to bring Congo Free State--rubber and murder, slavery in its worst form. rubber--said he had often told the sentinels not to kill the people. "The State soldiers brought in seven hands, and reported having shot id = 36324 author = Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni) title = Lost in the Jungle; Narrated for Young People date = keywords = Akenda; Apingi; Ashira; CHAPTER; Cloth; Gambo; Malaouen; Mbani; Mpomo; Olenda; Quengueza; Querlaouen; Remandji; come; gorilla; great; illustration; look summary = runs away.--The Man Gorilla shows fight.--He is killed.--His People are afraid.--Reach Akoonga''s Village.--King Olenda That evening I said, "Boys, let us go into the forest and look for us have a jolly good time in the woods, and kill as many gorillas, As I came near to look at my great prize, I felt that I would like to branches of a tree, not far from the dead body of the big gorilla. of the trees till we came near the female gorilla, which we saw just their young ones during the time I lived in the great forest of After a little while I came to look at the poor dead caterpillar, and "Akenda Mbani came to the king and said to him, ''I come to marry Arondo, when they came upon a huge elephant, who said, ''Let me pass, gorilla; people hollaing and shouting all the time, "The good spirit has come! id = 49591 author = Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni) title = In African Forest and Jungle date = keywords = Alapai; Andekko; Ndova; Oguizi; Rogala; Rotembo; Shinshooko; camp; chapter; illustration summary = ROGALA--ANDEKKO, THE DOG, THE SECOND GIFT--NDOVA, THE MONKEY, THE The next day Rogala came again, but this time with a monkey called "I will feed Ndova and Andekko often," said I to Rogala, "so that they "Ndova is calling the monkeys to come to him," said Rogala. "The monkeys are trying to make Ndova come to them," Rogala said. In the morning I said to Rogala, "Bring Ndova to look at the leopard." He went after the monkey and soon came back with Ndova in his arms. The next day I said to Rogala: "Let us go into the forest with Andekko. Rogala and Shinshooko said: "We must look out for her mate; the big The next morning Rogala and I took Ndova with us into the forest, and One day, not long after, Rogala said to me: "Oguizi, the boars are very monkeys, I said to Rogala: "Look at what Ndova has done for us. id = 52444 author = Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni) title = Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young People date = keywords = Aboko; Africa; Cape; Commi; Joe; King; Quengueza; Ranpano; Sangala; chapter; gorilla; great; hunting; illustration; leopard; look; man; time summary = of wild animals, and the manners and way of life of savage men; and The king looked at me for a long time without saying a word. had gone a long way up the river, and reached a Shekiani village. On we went, till finally we came to a place where a great number of I was sitting under a very large tree, when, suddenly looking up, I saw Presently came the king, a ferocious-looking fellow. that they do not sell the bodies of their chiefs, kings, or great men; The first day we went out, the people of half a dozen villages met like men of the woods, so very wild were their looks. while looking at the water, I suddenly saw something strange coming had arranged and lighted the fires, our camp looked quite like a little The old king charged the people to take great care of his white man, id = 35061 author = Du Moulin, Louis Eugène title = Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa date = keywords = Battalion; Bloemfontein; Boers; Brigade; Cape; Captain; Co.; Col; Colonel; Company; General; Gilbert; Hamilton; Infantry; Kop; Lieut; Lindley; Major; Moulin; Mounted; Nek; River; Royal; Sussex summary = receiving orders next day to camp on a hill about 2 miles south-east of these days of long range rifle fire unless it has mounted men? working our way in column of companies, extended, towards a low hill, an miles, and camped to the west of the town; they moved next day at five Our half battalion was on baggage and rear guard that day, H company our half battalion; in rear of them, in order of march, came F company, to these, a number of men of C, D and F companies were mounted, and left fifty men under Major Gilbert got into touch next day with 300 Boers On the following day the Boers were only 10 miles off; but the horses of During the next few days the other columns came into line, but the Boers The Company captured a number of Boers and wagons after a long gallop: id = 50384 author = Elmendorf, Dwight L. (Dwight Lathrop) title = The Mentor: Egypt, the Land of Mystery, Serial No. 42 date = keywords = Cairo; Egypt; MENTOR; Nile; illustration summary = Great Pyramid of Cheops is 480 feet high and covers an area of thirteen Great Pyramid, Sphinx, and Temple of Armachis.] the Nile, on the east bank, stand the ruins of Luxor and Karnak, and interesting in Egypt; though not so imposing as the Temples of Karnak. Egypt is a country of impressive temples and monuments, the interest of Since the building of the great dam at Assouan the temples of [Illustration: VIEW OF CAIRO, EGYPT] _EGYPT, THE LAND OF MYSTERY_ _Cairo_ Cairo is the capital of modern Egypt, and the most populous city in [Illustration: PYRAMIDS, EGYPT] _EGYPT, THE LAND OF MYSTERY_ _The Pyramids_ [Illustration: TEMPLE OF LUXOR, EGYPT] _EGYPT, THE LAND OF MYSTERY_ _The Temple of Luxor_ The great king of Egypt, Amenophis III, built the temple of Amun about Many of Egypt''s kings contributed to build the temple of Amun at Karnak. [Illustration: THE GREAT DAM, ASSOUAN, EGYPT] id = 17592 author = English, George Bethune title = A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy date = keywords = Abiud; Bahar; Berber; Dongola; Egypt; Footnote; Malek; Nile; Pasha; Safa; Sennaar; Shendi; river summary = hours in danger, the boat arrived at the west bank of the river, where About two hours after mid-day we arrived at a place where the river bank of the river, which threw the water of the Nile into small canals The country we saw this day, on both sides of the river, is a level and presents a great river winding in several branches through islands The river, in some places which we passed to-day, appeared country we passed to-day, for about ten miles on the eastern bank of the obliged to pass a great part of this day and all night by the shore. The same day I received an order from the Pasha to come to the camp with For this day our march lay near the bank of the river, and Six days before the army reached Sennaar, the Pasha was met by an id = 46483 author = Ennis, Luna May title = Our Little Boer Cousin date = keywords = Abraham; Aunt; Boer; Cousin=; Dirk; George; Koos; Mutla; Petrus; Transvaal; Uncle; Zulu; little summary = all the older boys--like their big cousin, Petrus Joubert--who had welcomed them to his great place, "Weltefreden," the only home Petrus "Oh, there''s Uncle Abraham coming now!" exclaimed Petrus, with a start, lieutenant himself, and his little son George, calling to them. "Oh, Uncle Abraham, here comes Lieutenant Wortley and George. "My dear Petrus, I think George prefers to remain with his father. of Petrus as any Britisher could be of the best of Boer boys. "Petrus, come, let''s look through the ''far-seer''!" exclaimed George, "Listen, George, don''t you like to hear it?" asked the Boer boy. "Petrus, here come two Kafirs now!" whispered George. All day long Great-grandfather Joubert sat there beside the open window Transvaal--from President Kruger and your Uncle Petrus down to little As Petrus'' and George''s ponies galloped up to the Chief''s kraal--or the Petrus and George had long heard of her id = 34245 author = Fenn, George Manville title = The Khedive''s Country date = keywords = CHAPTER; Cairo; Delta; Egypt; England; Khedive; Nile; November; Upper; crop; egyptian; great; pound; water summary = lands that are being made ready for the more ordinary grain crops--the But in such a splendid garden land as Egypt, where cultivated produce in Lower Egypt, and produce beautiful and profitable crops of fruit, as not requiring great care in cultivation, nor much water; while an thirty days after sowing, and the land ready for another crop, a fact Experience of long years employed in gardening and farming in Egypt planting was carried on in the rich lands of Upper Egypt bordering on turned Egypt into its present state as one of the great cotton-growing An average crop on good land may produce 1,890 pounds of raw cotton, Maize is a most important crop in Egypt, as upon this grain the natives In some parts of Upper Egypt a great deal of land is sown with the crop to grow on newly redeemed land, provided that water is abundant; id = 19895 author = Fisher, Sydney George title = The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal" date = keywords = Boers; England; Lee; South; Washington; british; man summary = scientific defeat in the Boer war I do not know why you should place it his life to a British man-of-war; and loyalists scarcely dared refer to During the seven years fighting of the revolution Great Britain sent out Boers are wrong in defending against England by guerilla methods an against that same country which it is said can rule any people better taken from British prisoners just as the Boers now use the Lee-Metford It was by this Boer method that all the armies of the rebel moral right of a naturally separated people to struggle for independence separated people to struggle without end for independence, you deny the whole country independent of England and with the north they had made With an independence loving people England has only two methods of right to their independence, that all men were politically equal and id = 16494 author = Fitzpatrick, Percy title = The Transvaal from Within: A Private Record of Public Affairs date = keywords = African; Boers; Cape; Commandant; Commissioner; Committee; Company; Council; Court; Cronjé; Dr.; English; Executive; General; Government; High; Jameson; January; Johannesburg; Kruger; Majesty; Mr.; President; Pretoria; Raad; Reform; Republic; Rhodes; Sir; South; State; Transvaal; Volksraad; british; uitlander summary = colonist said ''No.'' The English Government and the laws of the day The Government of the country was vested in a Triumvirate with Mr. Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger as Vice-President during the period Commandant-General of the South African Republic for the Government very large land-owner stated to the Government at the time, that if the Johannesburg Government organ, stated how he came to know of already been stated--the Government well knowing that Johannesburg I have received a letter from Government of South African Republic, Government invite President Kruger, in the interests of the South from Johannesburg, addressing President Kruger, stated in the course now President of the Transvaal State that, so far as burgher rights On the 8th day of August, 1881, the Government of the said State, receive from the Government of the Transvaal State such compensation Government of the Transvaal State. id = 45442 author = Gehrts, Meg title = A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematograph dramas date = keywords = Africa; Atakpame; Bafilo; Bassari; Europe; Government; Hodgson; Kamina; Konkombwa; Lome; London; Mangu; Messa; Mr.; Oti; Schomburgk; Sokode; Togo; Togoland; Tschokossi; chapter; european; german; illustration; native; woman summary = natives--We part with our "boys"--Good-bye to Africa-Major Schomburgk for some time previously, for we are both natives of time of day with the women and girls who came with huge calabashes on terms: "Master, two white men have arrived, and one of them looks like "Hullo!" remarked Lange to Schomburgk, "this looks like a white man''s reaching a little native village we called a short halt, in order to filmed a most curious native dance, performed entirely by women and the the men were away shooting, a native came from the village to By the way, some of the native cloth-work at Bafilo is exceedingly native rest-houses, as well as in regard to those used by the whites. After we had been here a short while, a little native boy came into Nearing Bassari, we came to a big native town, called id = 28158 author = Great Britain. War Office title = History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty''s Government date = keywords = Africa; Boer; Cape; Colonel; December; Field; Footnote; Fusiliers; General; Guards; Hill; Infantry; Ladysmith; Light; Lord; Major; Methuen; Natal; November; Orange; Rifles; Royal; Sir; South; State; Town; UNITS; british; sidenote summary = the 8th September, the General Officer Commanding in South Africa, Sir before the war, under the orders of the General Officer Commanding in [Footnote 28: Telegram General Officer Commanding South [Footnote 33: The General Officer Commanding South Africa had obtained by telegram from the General Officer Commanding South Africa, companies mounted infantry, and the 2nd brigade division of artillery. Cape Town, its commander, Lieut.-General French, who had been recalled line in rear of Methuen''s column, a 9th brigade, under Major-General three commanders in the field, Lieut.-Generals Lord Methuen, French, [Sidenote: Naval guns and field batteries shell the hills to drive out [Sidenote: 7 a.m. Guards attack east of railway bridge: 9th brigade Lord Methuen directed Major-General Colvile with the Guards'' brigade of crossing the line from east to west, the Boer guns opened upon them [Sidenote: 62nd battery with four guns arrives after forced march.] ORDERS BY LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR FRANCIS CLERY, K.C.B., COMMANDING SOUTH id = 17968 author = Guyot, Yves title = Boer Politics date = keywords = African; Boers; Chamberlain; Convention; Dr.; England; English; Government; Krüger; Kuyper; Mr.; President; Republic; South; State; Transvaal summary = the government of the South African Republic acted up to the convention The British Government left Mr. Krüger a free hand in the that the British Government left Boer Justice a free hand to deal with According to the Boers, they are briefly: (1) The Jameson Raid of Dec. 29th, 1895, gives the South African Republic the right in perpetuity to gives the Government of the South African Republic the right to treat Jameson Raid gives the Government of the South African Republic an State, and was re-elected President of the Transvaal, Krüger contenting English and foreign residents in the Transvaal, of the Boers who might Queen granted to the Transvaal the right of self-government under Government, police, justice and law do not exist in the Transvaal. government of Pretoria has the right to live, and to support the Boers. Krüger''s is, in the Transvaal, an act contrary to the Government. id = 44649 author = Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) title = The Last Boer War date = keywords = Africa; Boers; Cape; Commission; England; English; Government; Lord; Majesty; Mr.; Natal; President; Pretoria; Republic; Shepstone; Sir; South; State; Transvaal; annexation; british summary = Majuba on the Boers and English Government--Collapse of the territories of great native powers, on which the Government had not Africa, the Transvaal Boer, who resembles no other white man in the the Transvaal Boers, who vapour about their blood and their country and native tribes, the Boer Government carried it with a yet higher hand, character of the Transvaal Boer and his sentiments towards the native Transvaal Boers, that slavery existed in the Republic. the Boer as well as the English inhabitants of the country. _exposed the Boers to such an extent_, and the state of the country in Boers, English, and natives, and numerous addresses were presented to by the Boer Government to the Civil Commissioner, Major Clarke. Commissioner, and when the Resident and the Boer Government differ, the natives, and then probably the Boer Government intervenes "in the We Boers know that we will not be governed by a set of British id = 16131 author = Hales, A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) title = Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front date = keywords = Africa; Australians; Boer; Botha; Britain; Division; Driscoll; England; Free; General; God; Rundle; South; State; Tommy; british; day; enemy; hand; like; little; look; man; war summary = night, and got to Sunnyside Farm in good time Christmas Day. The Boers had For a day and a half I lay at that laager whilst our wounded men were Boer losses are generally estimated at something like five times that "Yes, the Boer thought himself as good a man as the Britishers he met out have never put your head inside a Boer laager in war time in your life. the Boer rifles spoke from a line of kopjes that lay behind the first. All that fateful day our wounded men lay close to the Boer lines under a those dead men looked as they lay face upward to the sky, with great hands farmers of British blood will rise like one man to defend the men and women Rifles spoke from the Boer lines, and men reeled a pace from the British id = 39348 author = Hamilton, A. (Angus) title = The Siege of Mafeking (1900) date = keywords = Africa; Baden; Bechuanaland; Boers; British; Cape; Captain; Colonel; Commandant; Eloff; Free; General; Government; Kimberley; Lieutenant; Mafeking; Major; Orange; Police; Powell; Protectorate; South; State; Town; Transvaal; imperial summary = Protectorate troops and the Boer forces investing Mafeking would have The Boer Commandant had evidently determined to shell Mafeking from Boers, who had been observed to place some guns in position upon the Boer proceedings in their investment of Mafeking, the enemy threw no the Boers brought their new siege guns once more into play. point the Boer advance was protected by the guns, the heavy artillery estimate of the men against him would place the Boer forces at no less their guns had thrown into the town during the days which the siege every moment that the enemy''s shell fire lapsed, the Boer marksmen the advanced trenches of the Boer position a short time before sunset, Boer trenches upon the east of the town earlier in the siege had Boers'' main trench--a point from which one may hear at times our enemy come and the Boers again make a serious attack upon the town. id = 42228 author = Hamilton-Browne, G. title = Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion date = keywords = Africa; Colonel; Conway; Hau; Haus; Hill; Kooti; Lower; Maori; Mike; Natal; New; Pierre; River; South; Taupo; Wanganui; Zealand; day; good; horse; man; old; time summary = "Then the white chief sent word: ''Save your women, let them come I have frequently talked to Maori warriors of their old-time wars, In those good old days, when the inmates of a pah or kainga saw a blood, shed in old-time wars, and on this island they determined, of either white man or Hau Hau, yet that said fighting must be enjoyed them good men, on the ridge to observe the enemy, mounted his horse white men rest, the Hau Haus, far away in the recesses of the bush, staff at that time consisted of six white men, all good and to be went up the hill after the white men, who, having heard the shots, We lost numbers of men this way; and although no officer or man was I had plenty of old hands among my men, both black and white, and on id = 15109 author = Hammond, Natalie Harris title = A Woman''s Part in a Revolution date = keywords = 8vo; Boers; Commissioner; Committee; Crown; Dr.; Edition; Government; Hammond; High; Illustrations; JOHN; Jameson; Johannesburg; Kruger; M.A.; Mr.; Mrs.; Plates; President; Pretoria; Reform; Rev.; Sir; Text; history summary = Reform Committee had been formed of the leading men of the city. the Government would meet the Reform Committee half-way--that the The Reform Committee, thus informed of Jameson''s coming, and knowing Jameson and his men are prisoners of war in Pretoria. Rhodes, Lionel Phillips, John Hays Hammond and George Farrar, inviting It was to be headed with my name, as wife of one of the leaders: Mrs. Lionel Phillips being in Europe, and Mrs. George Farrar at the Cape; visiting Dr. Jameson and his men imprisoned at Pretoria, nor did he Phillips, George Farrar, Colonel Rhodes, John Hays Hammond, and Percy Sir James Sivewright said, as I left my rooms for the President''s My husband would surely die if kept in Pretoria; the Government Letters came from friends in Johannesburg begging my husband not to The Government most generously allowed my husband to come to my Historic Towns.--Edited by E.A. FREEMAN, D.C.L. and Rev. WILLIAM id = 42737 author = Hansard, Réné title = The Cape Peninsula: Pen and Colour Sketches date = keywords = Anne; Bay; Cape; Castle; Commander; Company; Constantia; English; Marinus; Mountain; Paradise; River; Table; Town; Vaillant; Van; illustration; old summary = [Illustration: CAPE TOWN FROM TABLE BAY] the old Downs--now called Green Point Common--stood the little Bay of Storms, lay waiting for a good wind to sail away round the In the Museum at the top of the old Company''s gardens lies a little Square, where the flat-roofed houses and the old Slave-Market with a The blue shadow of Table Mountain falls straight across the ''Flats,'' flooding the green lands between the sea and the old Trek road to the In the old days, this beach between Salt River and Milnerton was the us lay the Bishopscourt woods--the old Company''s ''Forest lands'' hiding small stone walls, now moss-covered, past little garden paths running old-fashioned gardens in Sea Point and Cape Town. [Illustration: CONSTANTIA VALLEY AND FALSE BAY, WITH CAPE POINT] and looked down upon Cape Town--Lion''s Head far below us, the green But all the while the great blue shadow of Table Mountain crept over id = 35369 author = Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir title = The Highlands of Ethiopia date = keywords = Abyssinia; Adaiel; Adel; Aden; Africa; Ali; Allah; Amba; Amhara; Angollala; Ankober; Arabia; Aussa; Ayto; Bedouin; Chapter; Christianity; Danakil; Debra; Eesah; Efat; Embassy; Emperor; Ethiopia; Galla; Giddem; God; Gondar; Gurague; Hawash; Holy; Hurrur; Ibrahim; India; Izhak; Kafilah; King; Krapf; Lake; Majesty; Medoko; Michael; Mohammad; Moslem; Mudaito; Negoos; Nile; Prophet; Ras; Sahela; Saint; Selassie; Shoa; Somauli; Sultan; Tajura; Woema; Woosen; arab; british; christian; country; day; european; great; long; royal summary = The treaty concluded with the king of Shoa having now been placed by time; whilst, neither grass nor green food remaining near the sea-shore, return, passed the sultry day beneath the mock shelter afforded by a low missing man having been obtained to the present hour, he is believed by several days previously, of a large band of Eesah, the hot night passed water existed over the whole of the wide plain within a day''s journey, long in order that they may run away like poltroons in the day of danger wild Galla enters the scene of confusion, his long tresses streaming in white body and black head and neck, covered with hair, and having thick, Receiving a long shot through the thigh at the royal hands, whilst in the asserted fact of his having sailed seven days across a great sea, countries beyond the great sea, and must receive at my hands those id = 39615 author = Head, Francis Bond, Sir title = The Life and Adventures of Bruce, the African Traveller date = keywords = Abyssinia; Africa; Algiers; Arabs; Bruce; Cairo; Egypt; England; Esther; Fasil; Galla; God; Gondar; Jidda; King; Lord; Masuah; Michael; Mohammed; Mr.; Nile; Ozoro; Ras; Red; Salt; Sea; Sennaar; Tigré; Valentia; english; man summary = Cyprus; but, occupied with his great undertaking, Bruce naturally says "Dendera," says Bruce, "is a considerable town at this day, all covered "What is the reason," said this great man, very gravely, to Bruce, travellers have visited Abyssinia since the days of Bruce, we have [21] By a letter which Bruce addressed from London to his friend Mr. Wood, it appears that it was on the 16th of March he left Kenné for "At half past eight o''clock," says Bruce, "we encamped at a place called "One day," says Bruce, "when I was standing by the king in the palace, "I now," says Bruce, "for the first time since my arrival at Abyssinia, "Late in the evening," says Bruce, "Ozoro Esther came to the king''s king appeared affected by Bruce''s statement, and, with great kindness, "After travelling for nearly three days," says Bruce, "we had an "In that country," says Bruce, "it is not the value of the present, but id = 38389 author = Headley, Joel Tyler title = Stanley''s Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent date = keywords = Africa; Albert; Alice; Arabs; CHAPTER; Cameron; Congo; Emin; England; God; Lady; Lake; Livingstone; Mr.; Mtesa; Nile; Nyanza; Pasha; Pocoke; River; Shaw; Stanley; Tanganika; Ujiji; Uledi; Victoria; Zanzibar; day; illustration; man summary = Stanley halted three days to wait the return of his men. Stanley, and the natives took up the shout, till the hills and forest day fixed for Stanley to turn his face homeward and Livingstone his to "Doctor," said Stanley, "I will leave two men with you for a couple of although Stanley kept his little force marching all day, they made but day was a death-roll that could not be kept up long, and Stanley began Stanley sent the following letter home to the young man''s he had enough to last the expedition six days, Stanley next morning day the king came to Stanley''s tent with his chief counselor, and gave canoes to carry him as far as Usukuma, Stanley''s camp, but his people forcing his way, the very year Stanley started on his expedition. mountain had been so great, that Stanley felt that some days of rest id = 16462 author = Hillegas, Howard Clemens title = With the Boer Forces date = keywords = Boer; Botha; Commandant; Cronje; Free; General; Government; Joubert; Kruger; Ladysmith; Meyer; Natal; President; Pretoria; State; Transvaal; Wet; british summary = threshold--The low-veld or fever country--Old-time battlefields--The Boer fighting--Every burgher a general--The Boers'' mobility--The retreat of the BOER COMMANDANTS READING MESSAGE FROM BRITISH OFFICERS AFTER THE BATTLE OF The enemy and all other men called it war, but to the Boers it was merely Commandant-General, were the same men who ruled the country in times of firing line, but when British successes in the Free State placed the Boers In the Boer army the generals and commandants were of much In battle the Boer burgher was practically his own general. men time and again attacked thousands of British soldiers, and frequently Boers had more men engaged than the British, but in the majority of The day before the battle General De Wet and his men were in laager Boer general and said, "I will return to my men and will order them to The men who became the Boer generals gained their id = 41521 author = Hopkins, J. Castell (John Castell) title = South Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume I Comprising a History of South Africa and its people, including the war of 1899 and 1900 date = keywords = Africa; Battalion; Boers; Cape; Colonial; Colony; England; English; Free; Fusiliers; General; George; Government; Governor; Great; Kruger; Lord; Majesty; Mr.; Natal; Orange; President; Republic; Rifles; Royal; Sir; South; State; Town; Transvaal; british; dutch; sidenote summary = G.C.I.E., Commander-in-Chief British Forces, South Africa.] English--The Republic of Natalia Becomes a British Country--The Boers Rule--British Government in South Africa--Telling Statistics--A the general Dutch estimate of British Government, and into the further isolate the Boers from Cape Colony, and "buffer states" of Boers living beyond the Vaal," by which the British Government Cape Government, while branch lines in time connected the Free State Cape Colony remained High Commissioner in South Africa with the control came the Boer wars with the Zulus in Natal and a British effort to It was to a great extent forced upon the British authorities by Boer Governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner for South Africa. the general respect of Englishmen, Boers and natives, received a Royal The British force was so small in the Transvaal that the Boers had it [Sidenote: English Government in South Africa] The Boer States maintained their invasion of the British Colony of id = 12667 author = Huish, Robert title = Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa date = keywords = Adams; Adooley; Africa; Ali; Arabs; Badagry; Bambarra; Boossa; Bornou; Boy; Brass; Captain; Clapperton; Denham; Eboe; England; English; Fellatas; Fernando; Fezzan; Gambia; God; Houssa; Jenna; John; Kano; Katunga; Khaloom; King; Lake; Lander; Major; Moors; Mourzouk; Mr.; Niger; Park; Quorra; Richard; River; Sego; Sockatoo; Timbuctoo; Tripoli; Wowow; Youri; european; man summary = the following day Park reached Medina, the capital of the king of Having taken leave, he sent the king an order upon Dr. Laidley for three gallons of rum, and received in return a great great distance, Mr. Park proceeded to another watering place. white man had entered the king''s town, without having first paid the February, one of Ali''s slaves arrived, as he said, to conduct Mr. Park as far as Goomba, and demanded one garment of blue cotton cloth The next day, Mr. Park was conducted by the king''s order, to a hut On the following day, Mr. Park passed a town called Balaba, the chief men of the town gave them a small present, and every person of The following day, hoping to reach a town before night, they passed As soon as their canoe arrived at the landing place, the water king id = 32995 author = Jackson, Louis title = Our Caughnawagas in Egypt a narrative of what was seen and accomplished by the contingent of North American Indian voyageurs who led the British boat Expedition for the Relief of Khartoum up the Cataracts of the Nile. date = keywords = Alleyne; Col; Dal; Nile; boat; cataract summary = about half an inch of mud off our faces with Nile river water, went to Nile river water of good taste but muddy and we generally left it following morning were ordered to take the light boats up the cataract We walked back the three miles took another boat and tried the channel officers taking a boat each of different numbers, reached Sarras about 5 the river with the lesser current, the boats being such good travellers mile wide, and full of large rocks between which the water came down Dal cataract is said to be five miles long. the river, there being no place for the men to stand and pull, the water well as the cataracts, the sailing qualities of the boats were all Placing a captain in each boat we started, but were charge with my Iroquois in passing boats up the Dal cataract, until the id = 15972 author = Jacson, Mainwaring George title = The Record of a Regiment of the Line Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902 date = keywords = Boers; Brigade; Buller; Captain; Colonel; General; Hill; Kitchener; Ladysmith; Lieutenant; Lydenburg; Major; Regiment; Sir summary = p.m., and Colenso about 4 p.m., Ladysmith was reached at 6 p.m. Detraining took place at once, and the Regiment marched off to Tin Town, attack, the infantry to advance at 2 a.m. The Boer position as seen by the Regiment on the outpost line was some Brigade by an assault on Pepworth Hill, where the Boer big guns were Post on to the Boer guns newly placed on Umbrella Tree Hill, and as he Devon Regiment to meet General Hunter under Devon Post at 11.30 p.m. Shortly after this hour a force of Colonial mounted infantry, with Camp and Wagon Hill prior to the companies of the Regiment reaching the firing at some Boer guns mounted on the Amersfoort Hills. of General Buller''s camp, so that the road for the next day''s march The following day General Buller''s forces reached Helvetia Farm, where the Boers'' right, General Buller advanced the following day and found id = 20400 author = James, Lionel title = On the Heels of De Wet date = keywords = Aar; Africa; Boers; Brigade; Brigadier; Britstown; Cavalry; Intelligence; New; Officer; Orange; River; Road; South; Strydenburg; Tiger; Wet; british; man summary = 1. _To Intelligence, New Cavalry Brigade, Richmond Road, from "Order given, sir!" and the Intelligence officer touched his cap. "Good business!" said the brigadier, turning to his chief of staff. when the officer commanding the advance-guard, looking down the great British cavalry subalterns in general, and the officer in command of The Intelligence officer and the Tiger had not left the column a mile Intelligence Officer._) This man has evidently, sir, carried The Intelligence officer and the Tiger had arrived at a little cottage It is one thing for the mounted men of a column to come into camp, _B._ "Therefore the officer commanding the New Cavalry Brigade, having Come, sir, put your hand right here--it is a good day''s work to have "Well, young feller!" said the brigadier when the Intelligence officer The Intelligence officer led the man out to hand him over to the id = 37083 author = Kestell, J. D. (John Daniel) title = Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet date = keywords = Boers; Botha; British; Commandant; English; Free; General; Government; Harrismith; Kitchener; Kop; Lord; Mr.; People; President; River; State; Steyn; Transvaal; Villiers; Wet summary = On the same day a meeting of Free State officers was held in the tent of These men came in contact with the English on the following day, On the following day a meeting of Harrismith burghers was held at Molen The following day, being Sunday, I held a service in the house of Mr. David de Villiers, at Holspruit, and then rode to the commando to see if following day was passed as usual, and at three o''clock the General rode On the following day a Council of War was held, General de Wet command; but during the first days following, General de Wet had the Here on the following morning General de Wet called the burghers On the following day the President and General de Wet addressed the General Botha therefore sent a number of burghers to take up a position General Botha with a number of burghers took up positions. English drove General de Wet and a considerable number of burghers id = 48550 author = King, William Ross title = Campaigning in Kaffirland; Or, Scenes and Adventures in the Kaffir War of 1851-52 date = keywords = Beaufort; Blinkwater; Brigade; Cape; Captain; Chief; Colonel; Corps; Division; Excellency; Fingoes; Fort; General; Governor; Hottentots; Kaffirs; Levies; Major; Pass; Post; Rifles; River; Somerset; Town; Waterkloof; camp; day; fire; lieut.-col; man summary = Kaffirs--Porcupines--Blinkwater Camp--Bushneck Pass--Covering Rifle marched the following day, for twelve miles, in clouds of fine sand, Late in the day the General arrived in camp with an escort of Cape and baggage-waggons kept pouring into camp all day long; arms were heavy firing, about a mile distant on our right, announced that Col. Sutton''s column was engaged with the enemy in that direction; while having seen the body, sent me back with half a dozen men to bring it We were permitted to rest in camp next day, though parties of Fingoes At midnight we were joined by Lieut.-Col. Sutton and a party of Cape Corps and mounted Levies from Fort Beaufort, service was read by the officer-of-the-day, and large wood fires were The day following was Sunday, and a small party of us having got leave head-quarters, we marched from the Post at five o''clock, having a party id = 38870 author = Kingsley, Mary Henrietta title = West African studies date = keywords = Africa; Africans; Benin; Bonny; Brass; Calabar; Cape; Coast; Colony; Company; Congo; Crown; Ellis; England; English; Fetish; France; God; Gold; Government; Guinea; House; King; Lagos; Leone; Mr.; Negro; New; Niger; Old; Pepple; River; Sierra; Sir; South; West; Western; european; french; man; native; portuguese; trade summary = concerning the natives of West Africa in the minds of the general people at home who practically know no part of the West Coast names for one place in West Africa, because it leads people at home who moment he has time to think it over, what that white man''s thing really including man; but the African has not in West Africa, nor so far as I There is, as is in all things West African, a great deal of fetish known of cases of white men having small-pox in other West Coast places, Colonial Office does not know the natives nor the West African trade. on the natives, is a thing West Africa will not stand at all. three great riches of our West African possessions, the things that may rivers, about a day''s journey by canoe from the mouth of St. Bartholomew, is the chief town of a small tribe of people called the id = 5891 author = Kingsley, Mary Henrietta title = Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons date = keywords = Africa; Ajumba; Bantu; Bubi; Buea; CHAPTER; Calabar; Cameroon; Captain; Coast; Congo; Eclaireur; English; Fan; Fans; Fernando; Francais; Gaboon; Gold; Government; Igalwa; Island; Lagos; Lembarene; Leone; Mr.; Niger; Ogowe; Rembwe; River; Sierra; South; West; Xenia; come; european; french; great; man summary = in the true sense of the word, and form a great native-born white fish, for the great West African Bank, which fringes the coast in white man plantation-making, has come too close to him. leaving their gaunt roots exposed in midair." High-tide or lowtide, there is little difference in the water; the river, be it far great, broad, business-like-looking river entrances open on and of course this state of affairs is most common in nonslaveholding tribes like the Fan. Mission work was first opened upon the Ogowe by Dr. Nassau, the down river in a canoe and gave me good advice in Fan, and I got him Fan town called Efoua, where no white man or black trader had yet white men come to the bank, on the other side of the river, and call of the things a man, black or white, fails to do, whether for good id = 21391 author = Kingston, William Henry Giles title = Great African Travellers: From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley date = keywords = Africa; Ali; Arabs; Baker; Bombay; Bornou; Captain; Clapperton; Denham; England; English; Gana; Grant; Kamrasi; Khaloum; King; Lake; Lander; Livingstone; Makololo; Niger; Nile; Park; Speke; Stanley; Zambesi; arrive; expedition; man; reach; receive; return summary = The king having provided a guide, Park took his departure, reaching Daisy presented him with food, and sent a party of horse men to conduct At length the king''s tent was reached, where a number of men and women Next day his fellow-travellers, having better horses, went on ahead, and canoe returned Park went over, and, having dressed his wounds with Travelling sixty days, he reached Wassanah, a place twice as large as led the way down the river, followed by the King of the Dark Water, and continued their voyage down the river, passing through a large lake-like brother and his men at the town, set off, in King Boy''s canoe, to go his tent, the head man of the village arrived, followed by a number of It took the travellers four days to reach Kasenge, a town inhabited by He one day received a present of a little slave boy from an Arab id = 1039 author = Livingstone, David title = Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa date = keywords = Africa; Angola; Bakwains; Balonda; Barotse; Batoka; Bechuanas; Boers; Bushmen; Cape; Cassange; Chobe; Coanza; Deg; Desert; England; God; Kalahari; Kasai; Katema; Kilimane; Kolobeng; Kuruman; Lake; Leeambye; Leeba; Linyanti; Livingstone; Loanda; Makololo; Mambari; Manenko; Masiko; Matiamvo; Mr.; Ngami; Oswell; Portuguese; Quango; River; Sebituane; Sechele; Sekeletu; Shinte; South; Tete; Zambesi; Zouga; country; english; european; man; village; water summary = water, which in the countries farther north produces inundation, comes My chief object in coming to the lake was to visit Sebituane, the great the entire country; and as it usually issues at a temperature of 72 Deg. Fahr., it probably comes from the old silurian schists, which formed the "we had it long before white men came into the country, we and our practiced by some Griquas and others who came into the country after Mr. Cumming, and fired away indiscriminately, great numbers of animals are head men of the Makololo came down from Linyanti, with a large party different spots all over the country, or is presented by the head men of great chief, who had such stores of white men''s goods at hand that he It is remarkable how little people living in a flat forest country like his country to the east coast by means of the great river Zambesi or id = 16672 author = Livingstone, David title = The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 date = keywords = Africa; Arabs; Bangweolo; Casembe; Chambezé; December; Dr.; February; Habib; July; June; Lake; Livingstone; Loangwa; Makondé; Manganja; Mataka; Mazitu; Moero; Mohamad; Nsama; Nyassa; October; River; Rovuma; September; Syde; Tanganyika; Ujiji; Waiyau; Zanzibar; man; people summary = We left a village, called Mekosi, and goon came to a slaving party by heard the country people remark, "These are the slaves of the party." people had great abundance of food, and gave large presents of it if Description of the people and country on the west of the Lake. Description of the people and country on the west of the Lake. The chief said that no Arabs ever came his way, nor Portuguese native water sand from 20 to 30 yards wide; it is said by the people to flow He sent a party of men to ask if we should remain next day: an old, _19th March, 1867._--A party of young men came out of the village near men, Arabs it was said, came to Chibué''s and were there killed, and a lake or river ten miles broad is reached; it is said to be called id = 2519 author = Livingstone, David title = A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone''s Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 date = keywords = Africa; Ajawa; Batoka; Bishop; Cape; Chibisa; Coast; Dr.; England; English; Expedition; Falls; Kebrabasa; Kirk; Kongone; Lake; Livingstone; Makololo; Manganja; Mazitu; Mission; Mr.; Nyassa; Pioneer; Rovuma; Sekeletu; Senna; Shire; Shupanga; Tette; Zambesi; man; portuguese summary = in large canoes, and thence carried six miles across the country on men''s know the people of this country;" but the young men set out and visited the river; afterwards the young men went to Bonga, son of another halfcaste chief, who bade defiance to the Tette authorities, and had a native Portuguese and his men and a dozen Makololo, who carried our the west, and comes into the river a little beyond a lofty hill called men and boys remain by their respective trees day and night; the nuts, white men came to his village; washed themselves at the place where his The chief of the village near the confluence of the Lake and River Shire, By day the canoe-men are accustomed to keep close under the river''s bank path, and fled to the hills: and a large body of armed men came running id = 1436 author = Lobo, Jerónimo title = A Voyage to Abyssinia date = keywords = Abyssinia; Emperor; Galles; God; Indies; King; Moors; Nile; Portuguese; Red; Sea; Turks; abyssin; great summary = and soon afterwards left Pate to return to the Indies, and in nine-andtwenty days arrived at the famous fortress of Diou. account of the coast of the Red Sea. The patriarch having met with many obstacles and disappointments in his of land, which came out a great way into the sea, we found ourselves in welcomed by great numbers of Catholics, both Portuguese and Abyssins, who having taken his haunt near the place where I lived, killed all the oxen way, we were in great perplexity a long time what measures to take; at AEthiopia, lived on the top of a mountain, received us with very great left the place, and went to another mountain, higher and better peopled. in a short time great numbers whom we thought capable of being admitted scarce had I left the place before the viceroy came in person to put me id = 16859 author = Luckhoff, A. D. (August D.) title = Woman''s Endurance date = keywords = Becker; Camp; Footnote; God; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; September; Superintendent; Van; child; day; die summary = Neglected to visit 486 and mothers of yesterday''s dying children. 485; Van Heerde; mother and tentful of sick children; pitiable; 80; Mrs. Van der Merwe died to-day; old lady, Mrs. Pienaar, ill in Monday, August 26.--That imbecile boy died to-day; the old mother Yes, 35 (21 years) passed away last night, and so did 415 (Mrs. Meintjes), whom I visited late last evening. Mrs. De Lint''s children are all sick; baby very bad; poor woman; am Busy day; new tents 63, 552a, 50, 40, all with sick children except Visited tent to which I sent little brandy yesterday; found child Old Mr. Van Heerde, whom I visited two days ago, died in night. Sad; mother died some days ago; then young wife, and yesterday 518, little child (mother dead two days ago) died this after noon. Called at hospital again before afternoon visits to find out tent id = 21661 author = Lynch, George title = Impressions of a War Correspondent date = keywords = Boer; China; City; Elandslaagte; Germans; Japanese; Ladysmith; London; New; Pekin; York; chinese; day; great; illustration; like; look; man; pass; time summary = and the men who _do_ things, and shove these life-wheels round, warms stayed just a little too long, and had not time to get to his horse, rending sound of the shells in the air like the tearing of a great in a long snake-like column of men that winds along the road through at what looks like a man but may be a tree-trunk, and then stops again I looked forward to seeing great things from the Germans. I wonder what that other city looked like from the of Coal Hill, I have looked down on at night, but none of them is like people who were men in their day and did things, palatial buildings, the increase, and for young business men who have little time for The general rule that the men are at work all day has its effect in id = 20987 author = Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) title = Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900 date = keywords = Boers; Buller; Cape; Cronje; Free; General; Hill; Kimberley; Ladysmith; Modder; Natal; October; Orange; River; Roberts; Sir; South; State; british summary = Boers'' original plan of campaign was to force the British out of general officer killed in the war), considered that with the force British military situation in Natal when the campaign opened; namely, British forces in South Africa, including the reinforcements so far force crossed the Buffalo River at Landman''s Drift, ten miles east of the Boers, chiefly a body of Free State men, evacuated their positions Cape Town to take chief command of the British forces in South Africa. NOTE.--The effective British force shut up in Ladysmith on contemplated by the Boers, a very strong British force; incapable, River sixty miles away, with 2,500 men (British) holding the opposing forces places the Boers at 15,000, the British at 11,000. this began the general advance of the British forces in Natal, which a Major-General Hart, forming the left flank of the British line. A line of hills between these and the British force id = 21280 author = Makins, George Henry title = Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre date = keywords = Base; England; Entry; FIG; FRACTURE; Henry; Hospital; Lee; Magersfontein; Martini; Mauser; Metford; Modder; Mr.; Paardeberg; River; bone; bullet; case; exit; field; general; illustration; injury; patient; wound summary = GENERAL CHARACTERS OF WOUNDS INFLICTED BY BULLETS OF SMALL CALIBRE In this case the primary injury was a shell wound of the thigh, and the wounding power in the Lee-Metford bullet are some injuries to bone. GENERAL CHARACTERS OF WOUNDS PRODUCED BY BULLETS OF SMALL CALIBRE starred wounds resulting from perforations by large leaden bullets. flesh wound a severe bone fracture or injury to any part of the nervous In a patient wounded at Paardeberg, a Mauser bullet entered by the left all the cases that I saw the exit wound was dressed, but left freely may say at once that I saw no case of wound from a bullet of small In some cases of gutter fracture the wounds of entry were large and INJURIES TO THE SPINAL CORD ACCOMPANYING SMALL-CALIBRE BULLET WOUNDS OF a case is likely to be met with, as the result of a wound from a bullet id = 15561 author = Mann, Arthur M. title = The Boer in Peace and War date = keywords = Boer; English; Englishman; Free; Piet; State; Transvaal; illustration summary = The Boer did not like his English neighbours from the start; there was During the Boer War of 1880 merchants in the Free State had a bad time The Boers were, of course, very much excited, and the English This Boer had made some money, and contact with English people in the For instance, a merchant will approach a Boer respecting an time he will ask the Boer if he wants to sell any cattle or produce, The Boer would like to lay hands on the man who invented ploughs. hard work, and the countries would surprise several people--the Boers, The great thing with the Boer The great thing with the Boer Wool is the current coin of the country with the Boer farmers, and the time hold his own against any Boer. The feelings of the Free State Boers towards their English By the way, every Boer in id = 46705 author = Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco) title = In the Land of Mosques & Minarets date = keywords = Africa; Algeria; Algiers; Berber; Bey; Biskra; Blida; Cairo; Constantine; France; God; Habib; Jews; Kabyle; Mediterranean; Mohammed; Morocco; Mosque; Mussulman; North; Oran; Paris; Prophet; Sidi; Tlemcen; Tozeur; Tunis; Tunisia; arab; carthage; day; european; french; great; illustration; moorish; roman summary = mosque-like tombs distributed throughout the Arab peopled lands, which The Arab of the town apparently spends a good part of his time in a With all his faults and virtues the Arab of to-day is not a great government by the Arab population, asking that the great trading-route The Arab''s French is much like our own--queer at times, but it is real head of the Arabs in Algeria, and the Tunisian French saved the day for France in Algeria, and perhaps by the time these lines The Algiers of to-day is a great and populous city. _patois_ something like the following,--it''s a queer thing, Arab-French, The Arab of Algeria to-day still looks forward to the time when he may The great gates of the inner Arab city of Tunis are most fascinating, great size of the many apartments of this Moorish-Arab house; but like id = 44456 author = Martin, Minnie title = Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs date = keywords = Basuto; Basutoland; CHAPTER; Chief; Government; Khosi; Masilo; Mokete; Mosheshue; Mosuto; Siloane; Takane; european; man; time summary = APPEARANCE OF BASUTO--ALBINOS--CHARACTER--NATIVE VILLAGES--HUTS-In the time of the old chief Molapo, women invariably went to the top of APPEARANCE OF BASUTO--ALBINOS--NATIVE VILLAGES--HUTS--MANNER OF time he was an old man, almost completely under the influence of his son outside her hut, two old men came up and asked for food. the north of Basutoland there still live two old people, a man and a baby is a month old, the wife returns to her husband, bringing the child One day, Takane''s little brother followed Masilo when he took the cattle When two moons had come and gone, the old chief saw that the time to the beautiful daughters of the great chief to wife, not even when, after there lived across the mountains, many days'' journey, a great chief, who that for many years these people had had no chief, but the spirits had the rivers two chiefs, who governed their people wisely and with great id = 14400 author = Maspero, G. (Gaston) title = Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt date = keywords = Abydos; Amenhotep; Beni; Dynasty; Egypt; Eighteenth; Empire; Gizeh; Habû; Hasan; III; Karnak; Medinet; Museum; Nile; Queen; Rameses; Sakkarah; Seti; Theban; Thebes; Twelfth; egyptian; fig; illustration; note summary = [Illustration: Fig. 1.--Brickmaking, from Eighteenth Dynasty tomb-painting, [Illustration: Fig. 8.--Restoration of the hall in a Twelfth Dynasty house. [Illustration: Fig. 10.--Wall-painting in a Twelfth Dynasty house. [Illustration: Fig. 33.--Plan of walled city at Kom Ombo.] [Illustration: Fig. 53.--Temple wall with cornice.] [Illustration: Fig. 120.--Plan of chapel in mastaba of Ti, Fifth Dynasty.] [Illustration: Fig. 127.--Wall scene of funerary offerings, from mastaba of [Illustration: Fig. 135.--Wall painting of funerary offerings, from mastaba [Illustration: Fig. 148.--Theban tomb with pyramidion, from wall-painting.] [Illustration: Fig. 155.--Funeral processions and ceremonies from wallpainting in tomb of Manna, Thebes, Nineteenth Dynasty.] [Illustration: Fig. 159.--Wall-painting of the Fields of Aalû, tomb of [Illustration: Fig. 168.--From a wall-painting, Thebes, Ramesside period.] [Illustration: Fig. 169.--From wall-scene in tomb of Horemheb.] [Illustration: Fig. 174.--Pond and palm-trees, from wall painting in tomb [Illustration: Fig. 175.--Scene from tomb of Rekhmara, Eighteenth Dynasty.] [Illustration: Fig. 199.--Head of a Queen, Eighteenth Dynasty.] id = 16463 author = Mc Donald, R. D. (Roelof Daniel) title = In the Shadow of Death date = keywords = Africa; Boer; Cape; Colony; Commandant; English; Free; General; Government; Kritzinger; Orange; Republics; River; South; State; Wet; british summary = followed me either in thought or deed during the Anglo-Boer War. My ancestors were Germans; my grandfather was born in the South. The Cape Colonist Boers began to come in, and my forces 1900, the Boer commandos, under General De Wet, retreated to the On Monday, 23rd July, the enemy made a general attack on all the Boer far the saddest, phase of the South African War. Another dark day, and the curtain drops. or Orange River Colony, and all prisoners of war at present outside Among the English we found five Boer prisoners-of-war, who were likewise of the Boer families in meeting relatives and burghers was indeed great. Boer commandoes and British columns with provisions, especially when some of the charges brought against Boer officers and burghers when Before the war the very men who fought against the British would When the Boers, on the declaration of war, crossed the colonial id = 21254 author = McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney) title = In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country date = keywords = Africa; Akeley; Athi; Boyce; Colonel; Dog; East; Elgon; Kenia; Little; Mombasa; Mount; Mr.; Nairobi; River; Roosevelt; Stephenson; Tana; W.D.; Wanderobo; chapter; day; drawing; elephant; lion; photograph; time summary = should begin my real hunting in a lion and elephant country. away and native villages with ant-like people moving about appeared in Away below, the crowd of people looked like little As a form of pleasant excitement, we began to photograph rhinos, Mr. Akeley took out his moving-picture machine, advanced it cautiously to My second lion experience came three days later. in the valley another large male lion appeared and moved slowly away A week later, while marching from the Tana River to the Zeka River, Mr. and Mrs. Akeley and I came across a large lion, accompanied by a lion, rhino, buffalo, and elephant--the four groups of animals that are Many African hunters consider elephant hunting more dangerous than lion, elephant far off, and while the porters made camp we went on for a mile dark day came when I saw Little Wanderobo Dog for the last time. id = 18764 author = Meakin, Budgett title = Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond date = keywords = Abd; Algeria; Arabic; Barbary; Berbers; Court; Empire; England; English; Europe; Fez; France; God; Government; Granáda; Interpreter; Jews; Lord; Majesty; Marrákesh; Minister; Mohammed; Moors; Morocco; Mulai; Proverb; Spain; Sultan; Tangier; Tunisia; british; european; french; illustration; moorish; spanish summary = practically every other oriental country, each fresh visit to Morocco encouraged, till the Berber Empire of Spain and Morocco took a troubles than the general trade of a land like Morocco, in which men What passes as Moorish money to-day has been coined in France for many Of late years, however, a great change has come over the Moors of the little in the way of progress till a radical change takes place in God-sent power of my lord Slave-of-the-Able [Mulai Abd el Káder]. Presently the European stays them a second time; the man is Morocco to France had for some time filled the air, but in face of a foot of Moorish soil--Morocco lies at the feet of France. The houses and shops are much like those of Morocco, so far as town of four centuries ago, on every hand the names are Moorish. id = 47273 author = Moldenke, Charles E. title = The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra''s Needle With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks date = keywords = CENT; Det; EAST; Egypt; Heliopolis; Horus; III; Lower; NORTH; Obelisk; Pharaoh; Pron; Ramses; Rome; Sun; Thebes; Thothmes; Upper; egyptian; roman summary = preëminently called the "City of Obelisks" in Lower Egypt, the Heliopolis under the Pharaohs, was called Syêné by the Romans, and [glyphs] _Sun-t_ by front of the temple of the sun in Heliopolis or the Egyptian [glyphs], AN. _glorious bull_ [king] _in Thebes, the Sun''s offspring, Thothmes III_". III., the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, beloved of the great god Tum and {86}UPPER EGYPT, called by the Egyptians [glyphs] PA TA RES "_the land of LOWER EGYPT, called by the Egyptians [glyphs] TA MEHηT, "_the land of the Upper Egypt, whose Egyptian name was [glyphs] HA-SEBEK, "_the home of the the obelisks erected by the emperor Domitian is [glyphs] BENEMTHESTI. called in Egyptian [glyphs] PER-KHEM·T, "_the city of the temple of (the A name of the sun-god, written in Egyptian [glyphs] or Upper Egypt, and called [glyphs] {149}SUN·T by the Egyptians. was [glyphs] SUTEN-KAUT?, "_the king of Upper and Lower Egypt_". id = 16603 author = Nevinson, Henry Woodd title = Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege date = keywords = Boers; Buller; Bulwan; Camp; Colonel; December; General; Hill; Horse; January; Kaffir; Ladysmith; Long; Major; Natal; November; Post; Tom; british; manchester summary = guns, which the Boers had posted on a hill about 2,500 yards beyond the officers were killed and wounded there, and next day the killed men lay gun on the kopje close to the Newcastle road, a shell came right night before from the Boer camp behind "Long Tom." He had been ill with In the Boer camp behind Pepworth Hill he had seen the men Suddenly the Boer guns began firing from Surprise Both yesterday and to-day the Boers on Bulwan spent much time and money The great event of the day was the firing of the new "Long Tom." The The Boer guns fired now and then, but did little damage. the hill where many Boers spend the night, probably to protect the gun. day, the Bulwan gun firing right over Convent Hill and plunging shells No shells were bursting on it to-day, and the sound of guns id = 14900 author = Nielsen, Peter, active 1922-1937 title = The Black Man''s Place in South Africa date = keywords = Africa; America; Bantu; Europe; Natives; South; european; human; man; people; race; white; woman summary = Is the African Native equal to the European in mental white man will answer, without hesitation, that it is because the Native present generation of educated Europeans are descended from people who It must be borne in mind that before the white man came the Natives, people think that although the average Native mother is capable of the people still think that the white race is gifted with a special faculty The Natives, like most of the white people, prefer not to think overmuch says that the white people do well in that the man and his wife grow old reason for thinking that the mind of the two people differs in any way There are, I know, some white men who talk knowingly about a Native mind The difference between the mental status of the white man and the Native the whites, like the human nature of all races that have been id = 38447 author = O''Neil, Owen Rowe title = Adventures in Swaziland: The Story of a South African Boer date = keywords = Boers; Buno; King; L''Tunga; Labotsibeni; Lebombo; Lomwazi; Nkoos; Oom; Queen; Rietvlei; Sebuza; Sibijaan; Sugden; Swaziland; Swazis; Tuys; Tzaneen; Umzulek; Zombode; illustration; tuy summary = Oom Tuys Grobler, known as "The White King of Swaziland," I was Tuys Grobler tells of Swaziland and King Buno, "The Terrible." Tuys Grobler tells of Swaziland and King Buno, "The Terrible." visit Swaziland and see the great King Buno, and I asked Oom Tuys to Tuys--Why the Boers paid tribute to King Buno--Queen Labotsibeni, the Tuys--Why the Boers paid tribute to King Buno--Queen Labotsibeni, the A short time before our visit to Swaziland, King Buno had gone to kraal of Queen Labotsibeni--Common and royal ground--We reach King kraal of Queen Labotsibeni--Common and royal ground--We reach King "Queen Labotsibeni, his royal widow, lives there now," Tuys told me. "Oom Tuys and the king plan great things for the people of Swaziland," race against death--Umzulek meets us--The dying king--Buno makes Tuys race against death--Umzulek meets us--The dying king--Buno makes Tuys death-dealing puff-adder--Buno dies like a true savage king--Tzaneen, death-dealing puff-adder--Buno dies like a true savage king--Tzaneen, id = 8564 author = Park, Mungo title = Life and Travels of Mungo Park date = keywords = Africa; Ali; Bambarra; CHAPTER; Daisy; Desert; Dooty; Dr.; England; Foulahs; Gambia; Jarra; Kaarta; Kamalia; Karfa; Kasson; King; Laidley; Major; Mandingo; Mansong; Moors; Mr.; Negroes; Niger; Park; Sego; Senegal; Slatees; author; moorish; negro summary = arrival in Africa, "to pass on to the river Niger, either by the way of Desert, and receive in return corn, cotton cloth, and slaves. water was at no great distance, I ordered the Negroes to unload the asses After a long day''s journey, in the course of which I observed a number of two miles farther to the eastward, we passed a large town called Madina; travelling to Tisheet (a place near the salt pits in the Great Desert, morning following, we proceeded to Deena, a large town, and, like Jarra, before day; and having passed a small village called Wassalita, I came watering-place in the woods, and another time at the ruins of a town town in which the king resides, we found a great number waiting for a We passed, in the course of the day, a great many villages, inhabited three years, in the countries of the Gambia, great numbers of people id = 16466 author = Pearse, Henry H. S. title = Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith date = keywords = Boers; Buller; Bulwaan; Colonel; General; George; Hill; Horse; Imperial; Ladysmith; Light; Long; Major; Mr.; Pearse; Royal; Sir; Tom; Waggon; White; british summary = could watch Boers hard at work preparing positions near Lombard''s Kop, throwing shells over the town, to burst very near Sir George White''s in khaki--The Boer search-light--Shelling of the hospital--General if we could attack one point at a time, seize the Boer gun there, and our troops withdrew they were shelled right and left by Boer guns that _November 23._--Notwithstanding Sir George White''s protest, Boer guns Middle Hill opened to-day, shelling first the Rifle Brigade piquets on positions may be captured at night, and Boer siege guns silenced for attack on the enemy''s gun positions coincided with General Sir until nearly dark from Boer guns all round our positions. the Boers have mounted another howitzer on Surprise Hill to-day, and Boer guns do not fire many shrapnel, nor do the shells burst always in Hill--both Boer positions having guns of long range mounted on them; and id = 12561 author = Pfeiffer, Ida title = A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy date = keywords = Alexandria; Arabs; Bedouins; Beyrout; CHAPTER; Cairo; Constantinople; Damascus; Danube; Herr; Holy; Jerusalem; Lebanon; Mount; Naples; Nile; Rome; Sea; St.; Sultan; Syria; Turks; Vienna; european; find; house; town; turkish summary = continual necessity to climb up and down steep places in the badlypaved roads, soon render the stranger weary of a residence in this half an hour through long empty streets, then out at the town-gate, large open place near a river, where the camels rest, and where they Burnaba, a place lying on the sea-coast not far from the town, and country looks like an Arabian desert, and a few unfruitful datepalms rise beside the roofless stone houses. Near places of this description a great number of people are always About an hour''s journey from Jerusalem the valley opens, and little The little convent and church are both situated near the town, and I happened one day to pass a house, from within which a great An hour and a half before we reached the goal of this day''s journey, sea of sand surrounding the town; but soon we reached the beautiful id = 13777 author = Phelan, T. title = The Siege of Kimberley Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902); Eighteen Weeks in Eighteen Chapters date = keywords = Boers; Cape; Cecil; Christmas; Colonel; Column; Diamond; Guard; Kekewich; Kimberley; Law; Mafeking; Magersfontein; Martial; Methuen; Modder; Monday; Mr.; Rhodes; River; Saturday; Siege; Sunday; Town; british; chapter; man; military summary = the exact day and hour of the entrance into Kimberley of the British Later in the day an express rider made his way through the Boer lines. people in Kimberley who asserted that the gentle Boer knew not how to the enemy was a thought which had long exercised the mind of Colonel Another letter in the afternoon; from the Boer General to Colonel were engrossed in the news when the Boer guns began to play. siege truism, that the Boers could not long stand up to a British day, we felt, would end the Siege of Kimberley, and bring again into enemy (the Colonel, not the Boer) personally supervised the despatch of reminded one of a good time coming when the horse would be locally The whirligig of the enemy (time, not the Boer, not the "Law") had again Long Cecil was a surprise to the Boers; they had heard of the gun, and id = 15131 author = Phillipps, L. March (Lisle March) title = With Rimington date = keywords = Bloemfontein; Boers; Hamilton; LETTER; Modder; River; South; Tommy; british; day; fire; gun; hill; like; little; look; man; time; way summary = ruined Boer laager, rose the hill, the position we had carried, grim and guns are at work, you will see the Boer shells bursting close to or over hard at work now bombarding the enemy''s big gun by the river. middle of the day we were sent down to the river on the Boer right, as When we were camped a day''s march south of this, two Boers brought in a times that when you get rather close to the hill the rise comes to look know why the guns didn''t come up, but was told that they didn''t like to The Boer hill was four or five miles distant, north across the plain. venomous guns are left crouching like toads, looking towards the enemy; a little to the right to get away from that long-range gun. almost like the old Modder days, for a time; guns hard at it, and id = 15224 author = Pienaar, F. F. (Filippus Fourie) title = With Steyn and De Wet date = keywords = Boers; Botha; English; Free; General; Government; Heilbron; Ladysmith; President; Steyn; Wet; british; man summary = In the morning came the news that the enemy had again surprised and thence exiled to civilisation, _viâ_ Delagoa Bay. On the same day we captured three natives bearing British despatches. For a couple of days my office was under a waggon, then my tent arrived, Our guns were rapidly trained on the spot, our men placed in position, We went down to the laager, found the line in order, and wired the news for two days, when the enemy retired, whereupon we again took possession left for Frankfort, following the road taken by the President the night Scheepers had sent a couple of men on ahead a few days before in order had followed the enemy''s movements throughout the day, and that the line and then our men charged with such good effect that the British were town and retreating as soon as the enemy came out to give battle. id = 16600 author = Radziwill, Catherine, Princess title = Cecil Rhodes, Man and Empire-Maker date = keywords = Africa; Alfred; Boer; Cape; Cecil; Colony; England; English; Government; Milner; Mr.; Raid; Rhodes; Sir; South; Transvaal; british summary = Boer War. It was with these people that Sir Alfred Milner found himself out of pities that when Sir Alfred Milner took office in South Africa the influence of Cecil Rhodes, at one time politically dominant, had so remarkable, took such a long time to work their way in South Africa. Sir Alfred meant South Africa to become a member of the British Empire, to It is impossible to speak of South Africa without awarding to Cecil Rhodes possessed in the few years which preceded, and covered, the Boer War. Rhodes'' was the mind which, after bringing about the famous Amalgamation When later on, at the time of the Boer War, Rhodes made attempts to In the question of restoring peace to South Africa Rhodes most certainly parties in the Colony--the South African League, with Rhodes as President, Believing Sir Alfred to be the confederate of Rhodes, the Boers, too, id = 39881 author = Ralph, Julian title = War''s Brighter Side The Story of The Friend Newspaper Edited by the Correspondents with Lord Roberts''s Forces, March-April, 1900 date = keywords = Africa; Army; Bloemfontein; Boers; Brigade; Chief; Colonel; England; English; FRIEND; Field; Force; Free; General; Government; Gwynne; Kipling; Landon; Lord; Major; March; Marshal; Military; Miss; Mr.; Orange; Roberts; Sir; South; Stanley; State; Tommy; War; british; horse; man summary = Field Marshal and Commanding-in-Chief the British forces in South The force which, under the command of Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, left Mr. Landon reminds me that within an hour of Mr. Kipling''s arrival in Bloemfontein he went to him and said (with The committee of war correspondents with Lord Roberts'' army, war correspondents worked before--all day for THE FRIEND and far into it out as the news of the day that "officers of the English Army were "The Great Boer War," had recently arrived in Bloemfontein, and (_Edited by the War Correspondents with Lord Roberts'' Force._) (_Edited by the War Correspondents with Lord Roberts'' Force._) (_Edited by the War Correspondents with Lord Roberts'' Force._) (_Edited by the War Correspondents with Lord Roberts'' Force._) (_Edited by the War Correspondents with Lord Roberts'' Force._) (_Edited by the War Correspondents with Lord Roberts'' Force._) (_Edited by the War Correspondents with Lord Roberts'' Force._) id = 48598 author = Rayne, Henry A. title = Sun, Sand and Somals Leaves from the note-book of a District Commissioner in British Somaliland date = keywords = Adan; Arab; Berbera; Buralli; God; Mahomed; Mullah; Sahib; Sheikh; Somal; Somaliland; Yibir; Zeila; chapter; european; french; man summary = the month is pay day, and as I dole the wages out, an old man, who rupees to the poor fund, a good way of ending the old year. "Once upon a time," said Mahomed, "a man came to a Somal encampment, "''Have you not heard,'' said the old man, ''what I have sworn to do "So the old man was interested, and said to himself, ''I wonder if "The old man had three camels laden with mats and rich presents, and "On the morning of the fourth day the party came to the old man''s "One day, after the evening prayer, the old man said: ''My son, it away I believe belongs to God, even as I told you my life is His. Once when my brothers and I were rich two poor men came to our camp by mounted police, shall follow on riding camels two days later and id = 10355 author = Richardson, James title = Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. date = keywords = Africa; Barbary; Christians; Emperor; England; English; French; Gibraltar; God; Governor; Imperial; Jews; Maroquine; Mogador; Moors; Morocco; Mr.; Spain; Sultan; Tangier; european; moorish summary = once far-famed and dreaded Rovers.--Disembarkation at Mogador.--Mr. Phillips, Captain of the Port.--Rumours amongst the People about my obtained from the Emperor permission for Europeans "to travel in Morocco English Government had instructed the Consul to address the Emperor on Slave Trade in Morocco.--Benoliel as English Cicerone.--Departure from Slave Trade in Morocco.--Benoliel as English Cicerone.--Departure from He says:--"The Morocco Moors like the English very much, and better than Morocco with all the principal merchants of Mogador, to pay a visit to remarked, "The Christian has come to buy all the slaves of the country, A few years ago, a governor of Mogador presented himself to the Sultan arrival of the Governor of Mogador from Morocco, in order to have a Influence of French Consuls.--Arrival of the Governor of Mogador from Influence of French Consuls.--Arrival of the Governor of Mogador from ago, the Emperor gave orders that Jews coming from European countries id = 10356 author = Richardson, James title = Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. date = keywords = Africa; Arabs; Atlas; Barbary; Berbers; Bey; Emperor; Fez; Jereed; Jews; Mogador; Moors; Morocco; Mr.; Muley; North; Shereefs; Sidi; Spain; Sultan; Tafilett; Tunis; european; moorish summary = relations of the Emperor of Morocco with European Powers.--Muley Ismael relations of the Emperor of Morocco with European Powers.--Muley Ismael of the towns and cities are called generally after the names of these we should find all the large towns and cities of North Africa, where the people; Berbers, Arabs, Moors, Jews and Negroes. Morocco, and do not come so far west; but sons of Turks by Moorish women The Moors are the inhabitants of towns and cities, consisting of a empire of Morocco, states the number of the inhabitants of the town of flourishing place was a long time called Tafilett, but is now according Dubdu, called also Doubouton, is an ancient, large city, of the district finest cities in Morocco, in a most romantic situation, placed on a rock river Omm-Erbegh, along the route from Fez to Morocco, is a small town, Jereed, Tafilett, in Morocco, is a great date-country. id = 27765 author = Ross, P. T. title = A Yeoman''s Letters Third Edition date = keywords = Army; Boers; Christmas; Clements; England; Fife; Friday; I.Y.; Imperial; Monday; Mr.; Nek; October; Pretoria; Rietfontein; September; Sergeant; Sunday; Sussex; Wet; Yeomanry; british; come; good; horse; illustration summary = The battalion sergeant-major came round a few days ago with "Now, Every night we do guard on two of the near kopjes, and every other day I On that day, forming No. 3 Troop of the Fife Light Horse, we marched out the laager came the leading groups of the Fife Light Horse and soon the Of course, I was "footslogging," but this day, having no horse to drag horseless men having left by rail the previous day in trucks drawn by good day''s rest, as we heard that Clements was waiting for Ridley to Come away, men!" We then moved the poor fellow little way up which we found one of our Sussex men, with his horse Rough come into camp after a good day''s scouting on the farmhouse side In a few days all the men marked for home will be leaving, and to those id = 41744 author = Royle, Charles title = The Egyptian campaigns, 1882 to 1885 date = keywords = Admiral; Alexandria; Arabi; Berber; Brigade; Cairo; Canal; Colonel; Dongola; Egypt; England; English; General; Gordon; Government; Halfa; Infantry; Khalifa; Khartoum; Khedive; Lord; Mahdi; Majesty; Nile; Omdurman; Osman; Pasha; Royal; Sir; Sirdar; Souakim; Soudan; Sultan; Wady; Wolseley; british; dervish; egyptian summary = force of Arabi''s cavalry, followed by infantry, advanced towards the What had been taking place at Suez was reported in a letter from Mr. West, the British Consul, to Lord Granville, from which the following command of the troops in the Eastern Soudan, left Souakim with 550 men had attacked Gordon''s force at Omdurman opposite Khartoum, a few days British and Egyptian troops, was formed, and placed under the command of Dervish force attacked with men, mounted and on foot, and one gun. enemy were seen advancing, and H.M.S. _Dolphin_ opened fire at 10 a.m. The Egyptian forces, to the number of 450 men, advanced to endeavour to force up to 750 British troops, 2,000 Egyptians, and 2,000 Soudanese. cleared of the Dervish force, which left some 900 men killed in and occupied in force, but as the troops advanced the enemy, who had id = 28016 author = Savory, Isabel title = In the Tail of the Peacock date = keywords = Arabic; Arabs; Banks; Bewicke; City; England; Fez; God; Government; Hadj; Jew; Jews; Marrakesh; Miss; Mogador; Mohammed; Moor; Morocco; Mr.; Omar; Riff; Sultan; Tahara; Tangier; Tetuan; Z----; day; european; illustration; man; moorish summary = FRENCH CONSUL''S GARDEN-HOUSE--JEWS IN MOROCCO--EUROPEAN called Tetuan, only two days'' journey from Tangier, camping out as long home to Cadour, and we turned back, skirted the white city wall, reached At the time we arrived in Tetuan--early December--not a garden-house but Morocco City hung on an eyelash: the great man galloped in from Mazagan, SAFFI--A WALK OUTSIDE TETUAN--THE FRENCH CONSUL''S GARDEN-HOUSE--JEWS IN city on men''s backs, set down, and picked up in time by mules. and New Year''s Day, 1902, found us living in a whitewashed garden-house Fine days were never long enough in the little garden-house facing the good mules, nor induce any one but a Jew to leave Tetuan at such a time. Morocco City, ten or twelve days being the time they would take to arrive day, and the world in general, have little interest for the time being, best house in Morocco City, over-looking one of the many market-places, id = 23638 author = Scully, W. C. (William Charles) title = Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer date = keywords = Africa; Cape; Country; Garstin; John; Kimberley; King; Low; Mac; Mr.; Mulcahy; Pilgrim; Rest; Rhodes; River; South; Town; William; Wolff; camp; day; find; game; know; man; time summary = William and Ray, father had been great friends in the old days. early in the morning, and that if I would come down some day at 5 a.m. he would have a game with me. A well-known man at Du Toit''s Pan in the early days was "Old Moore." I pitched a tent a few yards away, and messed for a time with Garstin and In the days I write of Cecil and Herbert Rhodes were working a claim Early that day I found my friends, some men I had known at Kimberley. living in this tent for more than ten days when a man, who was about to Pilgrim''s Rest in early days--The prison--The stocks--No color line--John Pilgrim''s Rest in early days--The prison--The stocks--No color line--John Massacres of natives in old days--Kameel--His expressions--Life on the Massacres of natives in old days--Kameel--His expressions--Life on the id = 36422 author = Scully, W. C. (William Charles) title = Lodges in the Wilderness date = keywords = Africa; Andries; Bushmanland; CHAPTER; Gamoep; Hendrick; Kanya; Noona; Orange; Piet; Prince; Richtersveld; River; South; Typhon; course; day; desert; find; lie; like; long; water summary = desert fled before us like thistledown borne on an eddying wind. SAND-GROUSE--OUR HORSES--KANXAS--NIGHT IN THE DESERT--DAWN--HEAT--THE reach it involved a long day''s trek, for the route was through soft the desert towards our camp; they should arrive the following night. Kanya-veld shewed like a darker wrinkle on the desert''s brown face, for desert often voluntarily refrain from drinking water for several days at There is not a watering place in the Bushmanland desert which has not trace of day, that the desert''s inhabiting soul came forth and bounded away for a few hundred yards on a course curved like the blade night''s wind, still lay upon the grateful desert. several miles away, on our left front as we turned and faced the camp, their usual time throughout the western desert and the mountain tract. uncertain water-place a few miles over the edge of the desert and a id = 16460 author = Sellers, William E. title = From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa date = keywords = Africa; Boers; Christ; Church; England; General; God; Ladysmith; Lord; Mr.; Rev.; Soldiers; South; Sunday; Wesleyan; british; christian; home; man summary = A Story of Christian Work among our Troops in South Africa men, and the work of God went on, comrade winning comrade to Christ, so The soldiers and man-of-war''s men of John Wesley''s time came in large In a nullah in far-away South Africa lay about a dozen wounded men. all sorts of good things for the men who had to travel on Christmas Day. Another gentleman accidentally heard that a certain train was going to These tents became the Soldiers'' Homes, and are free to men of all That night, so far as possible, the chaplains gathered their men round But Lord Roberts is not only a Christian man, he is a great soldier. said, "God bless you dear men for coming out here to care for us, and to work, for at no other time can he get so many of his men around him; and id = 37264 author = Sheldon, Louise Vescelius title = Yankee Girls in Zulu Land date = keywords = Africa; Boers; CHAPTER; Cape; Free; Kafir; Kimberley; London; Natal; River; South; Town; Transvaal; Zulu; country; day; dutch; english summary = nights and hot, sunny days, where health and new life blood have filled in this region, at times making the whole mountain-side look like a For some time after leaving the town our way lay over a long level plain fine-looking men usually filled the long, low dining-room at meal-times, The men themselves look like so many flies as they dig away at the blue These Kafirs are continually arriving, coming from long distances, Malays from Cape Town and Kafirs and the imported coolies from Natal. and taking a last look at the beautiful orchard-like village, so soon to long train of sixteen oxen into a slow walk along, the town road. the house, she did not look much like one to live where wild monkeys good-by to friends around us, and flew away the same night to the sea at town is in a region of country where there have been many Kafir wars. id = 41035 author = Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von title = Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 date = keywords = Abdullahi; Abu; Ahmed; Ali; Anga; Arabs; Bey; Dara; Darfur; Egypt; Emirs; Fasher; General; God; Gordon; Government; Governor; Khaled; Khalifa; Khartum; Kordofan; Madibbo; Mahdi; Mohammed; Nile; Obeid; Omdurman; Pasha; Shakka; Sheikh; Sudan; Suleiman; Sultan; Wad; Zubeir summary = On our return to Niurnia I gave orders to start back the following day, Said Pasha himself was called upon by Ahmed Wad Suleiman, the Mahdi''s The day after my return to Dara, I sent orders to Omar Wad Darho to go The next day, the Khalifa summoned us, and asked if we wished to return that at noon-day prayers he would present Hussein Khalifa to the Mahdi, daily, in order to secure the good-will of the Mahdi and Khalifa, hoping "You heard the Mahdi''s words," continued the Khalifa, "when he said to "Perhaps later," said the Khalifa; "for the present, I have ordered him ordered the two Khalifas and all the Mahdi''s relatives to come to his return with them in order, he said, to give the Khalifa a verbal account Khalifa''s house, and had orders to leave the same day for Gallabat. Khalifa orders all letters that arrive to be handed over to his id = 15175 author = Smuts, Jan Christiaan title = A Century of Wrong date = keywords = African; Boers; Cape; Convention; England; English; Free; Government; Majesty; Mr.; Republic; River; Sir; South; State; Transvaal; british; sidenote summary = "South African Republic." All articles in the Pretoria Convention which May, 1897, the Government of the South African Republic dispatched a given:--[36] "Finally, the Government of the South African Republic In making this proposal the Government of the South African Republic Majesty and the right of the South African Republic to self-government The Government and Volksraad of the South African Republic adopted the The answer of the Government of the South African Republic was:--[46] The answer of the Government of the South African Republic was:--[46] That the British Government invites the South African Republic to a =Transvaal State= _South African Republic_ within =three= _six_ months The Government of the South African Republic has the honour to which may be due by the Transvaal State to Her Majesty''s Government, as Government of the South African Republic will appoint Commissioners upon receive from the Government of the South African Republic such id = 3284 author = Speke, John Hanning title = The Discovery of the Source of the Nile date = keywords = Africa; Arabs; Bana; Baraka; Bombay; Budja; England; Gani; Grant; Kamrasi; Kamraviona; Karague; Kaze; Kidi; Lumeresi; Mahamed; Manua; Maula; Mtesa; Musa; Nile; Petherick; Rumanika; Sera; Suwarora; Uganda; Unyoro; Usui; Waganda; Wahuma; Wakungu; Wanguana; Watuta; Zanzibar; king summary = Having gone to work again, I found that Sheikh Said had brought ten men, slave for each, and told Sheikh said to look out for some men at once, As nearly all the men had now returned, Grant and I spent New Year''s Day men, this time really provoked, said they would fight it out;--a king To do royal honours to the king of this charming land, I ordered my men out of the lake, and said, if I liked to ask the king''s leave to visit even Bombay, should come near me; for the king had caused my men to your dinner." My men n''yanzigged--the king walked away, giving orders Bombay did not return within four days, Kamrasi would send other men men, who came with Bombay, said they would escort us to their country, king''s orders for escorting us to Gani; but now they sent the men, the id = 8417 author = Speke, John Hanning title = What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile date = keywords = A.M.; Abban; Aden; Africa; Arabs; Beluches; Berbera; Bombay; Bunder; Burton; Captain; Dulbahantas; English; Gori; Habr; India; Kazé; Lake; Lieutenant; Nile; Sheikh; Somali; Sultan; Sumunter; Tanganyika; Ujiji; Warsingali; Zanzibar; man summary = country--a large tract of land lying due south of Aden, and separated winds two days, during which time I went on shore and paid my respects me to return; they said the sultan was on his way, and would arrive in the interior journey to the great lake, Captain Burton bethought arrival, came down the hill of which this island is formed, in great succeeding sunny day, and, making good our time, reached the old tree On coming up the lake, we travelled the first half up the east coast, the time in taking notes from the travelled Arabs of all the countries fortunate that the sultan was a good man, and was present at the time the place a day or two on my return from the Lake, as they expressed Mansur has all this time been living, like the slaves of the country, id = 32913 author = Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton) title = Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal date = keywords = Africa; Boers; Bulawayo; Cape; Colony; England; Government; Johannesburg; Kruger; President; Republic; Rhodesia; South; State; Town; Transvaal summary = several new lands like the South African interior, and I have lived long passengers there were Boers from Pretoria and Cape Colony, British in South Africa, that in some things the country is far behind New Cape Town, but that the railway limit should be fixed at Bulawayo, a serve for many years, I hope, to connect Bulawayo with Cape Town. so surprised at the railway, as at the length of time people in South railway 500 miles to reach a town of 3000 people. Bulawayo is 1360 miles from Cape Town, That is the position acquired by Bulawayo by the railway from Cape Town. railway will run west to Salisbury, and thence south to Bulawayo and the Cape Colony may learn a good deal from this new railway. his country would be the premier State in South Africa, and he might those five thousand English people to South-East Africa in the early id = 43654 author = Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton) title = In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria date = keywords = Africa; Albert; August; Barttelot; Bonny; Captain; Congo; Dr.; Egypt; Emin; Expedition; Falls; Fort; Gordon; Government; Ipoto; Ituri; Jameson; Jephson; Khartoum; Lake; Major; Manyuema; Mr.; Nelson; Nyanza; P.M.; Parke; Pasha; Sir; Soudanese; Stairs; Stanley; Tib; Tippu; Ugarrowwa; Yambuya; Zanzibaris; illustration summary = The Sultan of Zanzibar--Tippu-Tib and Stanley Falls--On board s.s. _Madura_--"Shindy" between the Zanzibaris and Soudanese--Sketches of my Rear Column--Major Barttelot''s doubts as to Tippu-Tib''s good faith--A of pigmies, and description of the same--We cross the Ituri River--Dr. Parke''s delight on leaving the forest--Camp at Bessé--Zanzibari wit--At native land and tribe; but a day or two after reaching Yambuya he altered day, I sent 200 men back to the villages to procure each a load of river party on this day numbered forty men; but, as we landed, we were The day previous the Zanzibari head men, urged by their friends, had reach Lake Albert, how can Major Barttelot with 250 men make his way your old road a day''s march from the Arab camp. said was only two days'' good marching--say forty miles--the grass-land The next day the chief returned two more rifles, but all my men being id = 5157 author = Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton) title = How I Found Livingstone Travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months'' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley date = keywords = A.M.; Abdullah; Africa; Arabs; Bagamoyo; Bombay; Burton; Cape; Central; Doctor; Dr.; Expedition; Hamed; Lake; Livingstone; Mabruki; Makata; Mirambo; Mr.; Musungu; Nile; P.M.; River; Rusizi; Sayd; Shaw; Sheikh; Speke; Sultan; Tabora; Tanganika; Thani; Ugogo; Uhha; Ujiji; Unyanyembe; Wagogo; Wangwana; Wanyamwezi; Zanzibar; american; man summary = to chiefs of caravans of tents, guns, red broad cloth, in presents to To the men this first day''s march through the mountain region of Usagara reach Unyanyembe in time to sell his cloths before other Arabs came with cloth as tribute from one man, that no Arab caravan shall go to Ujiji, I was told to-day by a man that when Livingstone was coming from Nyassa "Ah, but it is good," said I, "a little of it makes men feel strong, and said the Sultan at parting, ''these white men know everything, the Arabs of the great white man who was said to be with a large force of men at "Doctor," said I, "I will leave two men with you, who will stop to-day passed any men coming along the road for him, and I thought as each day The next day I collected the men of the new Livingstone Expedition id = 16337 author = Steevens, G. W. (George Warrington) title = From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War date = keywords = Africa; Boer; Capetown; England; Free; Hill; Ladysmith; November; South; State; Steevens; british; day; gun; half; man summary = Presently I came into it, and began to wonder what it looked like. A Boer force, reported to be 350 strong, shifted camp to-day to within _Thin-faced man._ But I want to know why the Boers are armed and we waggons, men gathered round the guns like the groups round a patient in As they moved the Boer gun opened again--Lord, but the German balloon just over the place the Boer shell came from. guns; Tom on the 7th made a day''s lovely practice all round our battery. It must be said that the Boers made war like gentlemen of leisure; they "Left-hand Gun Hill fired, sir," said a bluejacket, with his eyes glued "Right-hand Gun Hill fired, sir," came the even voice of the bluejacket. "Left-hand Gun Hill fired, sir," said the bluejacket to the captain. if he were not commanding big men round a big gun in a big war, might id = 15106 author = Thomas, C. H. title = Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked date = keywords = Africa; Afrikaner; Boer; Bond; Cape; Dutch; England; English; Free; Government; Holland; Krüger; Orange; President; Republics; South; State; Transvaal; british; uitlander summary = of Belfast Transvaal formerly Orange Free State Burgher delusive aims of the Afrikaner Bond combination, to which the Anglo-Boer British colonies, and a large number of Boers combined with the the independent Orange Free State and Transvaal Republics. British Government and the English people in South Africa. Orange Free State and Transvaal Republics was marked with much progress Boer Government posed as innocent; the designs of the Afrikaner Bond England towards both the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republics. Dutch nation, who renounce all claim in favour of the Afrikaner or Boer Boer people, assuming that a Government majority allows itself to be From 1881 every Transvaal and Orange Free State Boer without exception among the Cape Colonial and Orange Free State Boers, the declension the Transvaal, while the Colonial Boers on the whole have had no such Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Free State, and Transvaal have been id = 41373 author = Urabi, Ahmad title = Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events date = keywords = Alexandria; Ali; Arabi; Cairo; Chamber; Colvin; Constantinople; Egypt; England; English; Europe; Foreign; Gladstone; Government; Granville; Ismaïl; Khedive; London; Lord; Malet; Minister; Ministry; Mohammed; Mr.; National; Office; Pasha; Riaz; Sami; Sheykh; Sir; Sultan; Tewfik; egyptian; french summary = English military hands as Egypt is to-day, or that our Foreign Office the great news of the day in Egypt, the deposition of the Khedive With regard to the Sultan and the connection of Egypt with Turkey, Arabi On the first day of the New Year the National Program I had sent to Mr. Gladstone was published in the "Times," with a leading article and against the new Egyptian ministry, telling me "that Arabi''s government estimating Arabi''s growing position of political power in Egypt superior "To Arabi Pasha, Minister of War. Lord Granville states in Parliament written a number of powerful letters in support of Arabi in the "Times," from a Bedouin, who has just come on from Egypt, that Arabi Pasha has Arabi''s right-hand man at the War Office, as always a Khedive''s man "Nor could the English Government, having handed Arabi to the id = 15160 author = Van Warmelo, Dietlof title = On Commando date = keywords = Commandant; General; Ladysmith; President; Pretoria; Rey; River; Rustenburg; Steyn; enemy; mountain summary = behind us, where some of our burghers lay firing at the enemy. already seen many such bullets taken from the enemy by our burghers in days after the enemy had tried to force their way through to the right day long the enemy fired at us from the smaller positions facing us, at Our burghers had already taken two of the enemy''s guns. men could not surround the enemy or attack them in the rear; and as enemy on the white kopje, one of our men went by himself to see if there When the enemy, a few days later, drove us from Olifantsnek, General de the first time saw a farm-house burnt down by the enemy. enemy advanced towards us on the day following, General De la Rey had General Beyers, with 400 or 500 men, passed to the rear of the enemy to id = 27529 author = Velden, D. E. van title = The peace negotiations between the governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the representatives of the British government, which terminated in the peace concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902 date = keywords = British; Commandant; Free; General; Government; Kitchener; Lord; Majesty; President; South; State summary = The Commandant General of the South African Republic said, that after The Acting State President of the South African Republic said the war A meeting then took place between Lord Kitchener and Generals Botha, copy of the Peace proposals made by Lord Kitchener to General Botha in _representing the British Government, and_ Commandant-General Louis the same time the British Government said: "We are desirous of peace; consideration: (1) A proposal that will meet the British Government in Lord MILNER: The proposal is, in fact, that the British Government Lord MILNER: We can refer this to our Government; but your proposal is General BOTHA: No. Lord KITCHENER: Would £2,000,000 or £3,000,000 meet you? General SMUTS: If the Government is prepared to meet this difficulty Lord KITCHENER: That will be referred to the British Government. (2) Accept the proposal of the British Government and conclude peace proposals of the British Government, or whether we shall surrender id = 41976 author = Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title = Mpuke, Our Little African Cousin date = keywords = CHAPTER; COLONEL; Cousin=; Mark; Mpuke; Trade; african; boy; little summary = We need not go so far away from home, indeed, to see little black white traders, and when Mpuke is a good boy he is allowed to take it and The black people know that the elephant''s sleeping time is from about With our little Mpuke, a day and a night pass and his headache grows Mpuke''s mother has wrapped up her little son, and placed him on his mat, thing as Mpuke''s home must not be allowed to stand in their way, so they we wish to follow Mpuke, whose mother has sent him a long way from home "HOW do these queer little people sleep?" asks Mpuke, as Gombo stops for Mpuke has watched the ways of spiders many times before, but always at a Many little gray spiders spin their webs in Mpuke''s home, but his mother =THE LITTLE COLONEL GOOD TIMES BOOK= id = 32908 author = Walmsley, Hugh Mulleneux title = The Ruined Cities of Zululand date = keywords = Amatonga; Bay; Captain; Dom; Dona; English; Enrico; Halcyon; Hughes; Isabel; Lowe; Luji; Masheesh; Matabele; Maxara; Mozelkatse; Sir; Umhleswa; Weber; Wyzinski; Zambesi; man summary = "You are an old hand, Hughes," said the Ensign, after a short pause. "Sail ho!" shouted the look-out, and Captain Weber stopped suddenly in Blount," said Captain Weber, after he had looked long and attentively in "See," said Captain Weber, pointing with his hand, "the boats have been To Captain Hughes, the long cloud-like line of the coast was "How strange," said Hughes, breaking a long silence, "that a land so "Good," said Umhleswa, rising; "and now let the white men sleep in said Hughes again, speaking aloud, "it is Captain Weber, and Masheesh Captain Weber, the missionary, and Hughes had watched through the night, "The boats are alongside, and the men on deck, Captain Weber," said Mr "See," said Captain Weber, laying his hand on Hughes'' shoulder, pointing Captain Weber grasped Hughes by the hand, looking into his face, and A wave of the hand came back for all reply, as Hughes passed his arm id = 35308 author = Ward, Mrs. title = The Cape and the Kaffirs: A Diary of Five Years'' Residence in Kaffirland date = keywords = Africa; Bay; Cape; Captain; Colonel; Colony; England; Fingoes; Fort; General; Governor; Graham; Hare; Harry; Kaffirland; Kaffirs; Kei; Lieutenant; Pato; Peddie; River; Sandilla; Sir; Smith; Somerset; Town; british summary = until Sir Harry Smith came among them, at the close of the Kaffir war, pretended Kaffir prophet, a witch-doctor, Colonel, now Major-General Sir the colony remained in this unsettled state, the Kaffir and Fingo women "thousands of Kaffirs." On the 29th of April, Colonel Somerset arrived Kaffir war of 1835, was riding with a body of troops across the country, state of anxiety, the Kaffirs having carried off their cattle, amounting known till the next day that Colonel Somerset had encountered the enemy. war of 1834-5, Sir Harry Smith, the present Governor of the Cape, met round the cattle, little rest could be obtained; the Kaffirs shouted and On the day that Colonel Hare left Fort Beaufort, the 26th of July, Sir rendered them by Colonel Somerset during the Kaffir war, by his rapid a Kaffir kraal in that neighbourhood, the enemy fired on our troops, and id = 16160 author = Weigall, Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) title = The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology date = keywords = Akhnaton; Amon; Asia; Aton; Dynasty; Egypt; Horemheb; III; King; Nile; Pharaoh; Photo; Queen; Syria; Thebes; Tiy; Wenamon; egyptian; find; illustration; man; past; time; tomb summary = ancient Egyptian history brought the culture of that country to the our life and the centuries of time." Let us give history and archæology town of Damanhur in Lower Egypt is said to be the place at which a great the Egyptians held Syria for some years, though little is now known of attention of the Anglo-Egyptian officials, and placed Egypt before their you study history." These words hold good when we deal with Egyptian of Egypt may be read upon the walls of her ancient temples and tombs. "When Death comes," says a certain sage of ancient Egypt, "it seizes the countries, and in Egypt it exists at the present day in more than one great nobles: in Upper Egypt, Herhor, High Priest of Amon-Ra, was ''Life and Times of Akhnaton, Pharaoh of Egypt.'' The home of Egyptian antiquities is Egypt, a fact which will Egypt itself is the true museum for Egyptian antiquities. id = 11104 author = Wharton, Edith title = In Morocco date = keywords = Africa; Arts; Atlas; Fez; Footnote; France; General; Idriss; Ismaël; Marrakech; Meknez; Morocco; Moslem; Moulay; Rabat; Salé; Spain; Sultan; arab; european; french; illustration; moroccan summary = the Arab house, built about one or more arcaded courts, with long narrow General Lyautey came to Morocco; but ferocious old Salé, Phenician Near the tower, the red-brown walls and huge piers of the mosque built At that hour the old Moroccan cities look like the between Rabat and Fez is travelled not only by French government motors ruined tombs of the Merinid Sultans look down over the city they made point from which to look down at Fez. There it lies, outspread in golden light, roofs, terraces, and towers for the long tunnel-like street that leads down the hill to the Fez One is told that in cities like Fez and Marrakech the Hebrew quarter offices to be built within the walls of Moroccan towns, and this house fortified mountains which stand about Fez like prison-walls. was under the Merinid Sultans that Fez became the centre of Moroccan palace-making Sultans whose walled cities of splendid mosques and towers id = 39042 author = Wharton, Edith title = In Morocco date = keywords = Africa; Arts; Atlas; Fez; France; General; Idriss; Ismaël; Lyautey; Marrakech; Meknez; Morocco; Moslem; Moulay; Rabat; Salé; Spain; Sultan; arab; european; french; illustration; moroccan summary = the Arab house, built about one or more arcaded courts, with long narrow General Lyautey came to Morocco; but ferocious old Salé, Phenician Near the tower, the red-brown walls and huge piers of the mosque built At that hour the old Moroccan cities look like the between Rabat and Fez is travelled not only by French government motors ruined tombs of the Merinid Sultans look down over the city they made for the long tunnel-like street that leads down the hill to the Fez One is told that in cities like Fez and Marrakech the Hebrew quarter offices to be built within the walls of Moroccan towns, and this house fortified mountains which stand about Fez like prison-walls. Kairouan, the walls of Marrakech, the Medersas of Fez--influences that was under the Merinid Sultans that Fez became the centre of Moroccan palace-making Sultans whose walled cities of splendid mosques and towers id = 14451 author = White, Stewart Edward title = African Camp Fires date = keywords = Africa; East; Hill; Kongoni; Masai; Memba; Nairobi; Narossara; Sasa; Tsavo; country; day; footnote; german; good; great; like; little; long; look; man; time; way; white summary = things; but sat there in meek little rows like mannikins until the boat Small boys, like little black imps, clung naked fine-looking black man in white robe and cap; the driver of a high cart little stream; the civil service and bigger business men among the hills wound on for good; and must be worn day and night and all the time, a In the nesting time, then, the Hills went out over the open country, sometimes for days at a time, armed with long high-power telescopes. The poor pups had had a long day with little water, "I''m going to give the old man a good time," said he. marches is likely to be almost any time of the day or night, N''gombe Next day I left Kongoni and one porter at the old camp, loaded my men shape of little cylinders, so that at a short distance they look like id = 15110 author = Wilkinson, Spenser title = Lessons of the War: Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith date = keywords = Boer; Buller; George; Government; Ladysmith; Lord; Natal; Redvers; Sir; White; british summary = estimate the British force necessary to disarm the Boer States at over attack Sir George White, whose forces a few days ago were divided Sir George White with a force outnumbering the British by something like If before the arrival of Sir Redvers Buller and his men the Boers could On Saturday morning Sir George White sent a small force of cavalry and George White, finding a large Boer force in front of him at Ladysmith, Cabinet''s decisions involved that Sir George White with his small force position of Sir George White''s force--has, perhaps, led General the British force reached Bloemfontein the Boer army might leave Natal, Ladysmith''s force will not be idle, but will attack the Boers who are Redvers Buller could not advance along them with the Boer forces force at Ladysmith; it would mean that Sir Redvers Buller''s Army in its id = 14466 author = Wilson, Sarah Isabella Augusta, Lady title = South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time date = keywords = Africa; Baden; Boers; Cape; Colonel; England; English; General; Government; Jameson; Johannesburg; Keeley; Kruger; Lady; Lord; Mafeking; Major; Mr.; Mrs.; Powell; President; Pretoria; Rhodes; South; Town; Transvaal; dutch summary = Cape Colony, at the time of the Great Trek, in long lines of The day following our drive to Krugersdorp we left for Cape Town and appeared so exceedingly likely, that we decided to return to Cape Town, and the fact that nearly five miles of road between Cape Town and Groot from Mafeking, having been given leave from the town guard to look after aching eyes, which had looked all day for Boers, and above all for news, Cronje and a great number of Boers had left Mafeking and trekked South. induce the Boer General to pass me into Mafeking. of rifle-pits, which gave the Boers no peace day or night, and from out of good feeling, the Boers did not shell at all that day till late town--a handful of English men and women surrounded by enemies, with appeared to be having almost as bad a time as in the old days before the id = 30581 author = Windham, W. G. title = Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia date = keywords = Algeria; Algiers; Angelo; Arabs; B----; Bey; Blidah; Bona; CHAPTER; English; Hôtel; Nero; Tunis; day; french; horse summary = ON TO TUNIS:--Algeria in General--The Arabs and their the French occupation, the Algerian ladies, like the females in all Arab having killed a Frenchman there the day before. In the course of the day the Arabs brought in a boar which they had chatted away gaily in Arabic and French throughout the whole passage. Angelo''s Horsemanship.--The Bey''s Palace at Marsa.--The Arabs and sang_ horses, as the Arabs are afraid of the Bey''s taking a fancy to This Goulette appears to be the chief place for the Arab At one time the man and the lion were great friends, and the Arabs about some ruin, when another came up and said, "Why do you with his horse; and some Arabs, coming up, at the cries of the officer There are two ways of hunting the lion, by day and by night. Caid''s house at Solyman (about twenty miles from Tunis), an old Arab id = 32875 author = Wingate, F. R. (Francis Reginald), Sir title = Ten Years'' Captivity in the Mahdi''s Camp 1882-1892 date = keywords = Abdullah; Abu; Ahmed; Anga; Arabs; Baggara; Berber; Bey; Bonomi; Darfur; Dongola; Egypt; God; Gordon; Government; Hicks; Khalifa; Khartum; Kordofan; Mahdi; Nile; Obeid; Omdurman; Osman; Pasha; Sudan; Wad; dervish; egyptian summary = During all this time the number of the Mahdi''s followers was continually Dervishes live a life of ease in El Obeid--The Mahdi makes laws--He On their arrival near the town, Khalifa Abdullah went out with a large Before his death, the Mahdi had nominated the Khalifa Abdullah as his Immediately after the Mahdi''s death, the Khalifa Abdullah summoned a Meanwhile Khalifa Abdullah had sent an order from Omdurman to Mahmud, Khalifa Abdullah now sent instructions to Abu Anga to return to Abu Anga received great praise at the hands of the Khalifa, and many On the same day of its arrival, the Khalifa ordered the King''s head to as it was with the Mahdi, so it is with the Khalifa--at first orders are not the Khalifa of the Mahdi called Abdullah?" to which he replied, interest in the Mahdi and his Khalifa, he was taken over to Khartum and id = 26490 author = Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil) title = Lord Milner''s Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 date = keywords = Africa; Afrikander; Bloemfontein; Boer; Bond; Cape; Chamberlain; Colony; Commissioner; Dutch; England; Footnote; Free; General; Government; High; Imperial; Lord; Milner; Mr.; President; Pretoria; Republic; Schreiner; Sir; South; State; Transvaal; british; sidenote summary = twenty years later, in the great South African War. The military power the Boers and their colonial kinsmen in the South African War, it may South African Republic, the Free State, and the Cape Colony were each "turning-point" in the Transvaal; while in the Cape Colony Lord Milner raise the British forces in the Cape Colony and Natal to a point with Mr. Fischer himself as well as from Mr. Schreiner and Mr. Hofmeyr--Lord Milner placed the British Government code at the Government of Natal--the loyal colony which, as Lord Milner had Government, Lord Milner telegraphed to warn the British authorities in British forces in South Africa from the commencement of the war up to Of the general attitude of the Cape Dutch at this time Lord Milner actual number of British troops in South Africa under Lord Roberts''s as in the Cape Colony Lord Milner had seen that the Boers and id = 16399 author = Young, Frederick title = A Winter Tour in South Africa date = keywords = Africa; Cape; Colonial; Colony; Government; Kimberley; Mr.; Sir; South; Town; Transvaal; Young; british; decorative; illustration summary = The growth of the great Colonies of the British Empire is so phenomenal, entertained by large classes of Her Majesty''s subjects in South Africa. PORT ELIZABETH TO CAPE TOWN.--Scenery--Hex River Pass--Arrival at Africa," by Sir Frederick Young, at the Royal Colonial [Illustration: GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CAPE TOWN.] A visit of great interest to me was to the South African Public Library, unique collection of works relating to South Africa generally. my having come from England to South Africa to learn. the cleanest, and most well-ordered towns I have seen in South Africa. The Government of this country (Cape Colony) have come to the of great national moment of recent years in South Africa. "The present attitude of even British South Africa, is one, not of the great public mountain roads in Cape Colony have thus been interesting country, and since he landed in Cape Town, on the 24th id = 15699 author = nan title = A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans date = keywords = Army; Bloemfontein; Boers; Botha; Buller; Colony; Delarey; Drift; February; Free; French; Hill; Kimberley; Kitchener; Kop; Ladysmith; Lord; Natal; Nek; Orange; River; Roberts; State; Transvaal; Wet; british summary = Boer line, and having seized Nicholson''s Nek due north of Ladysmith The force of nearly 10,000 men under Lord Methuen detailed by Buller for Next day the British troops took up a position north of the river. Modder River Camp, where he received orders from Buller either to attack towards a higher hill overhanging Stormberg Junction called Rooi Kop. Gatacre had originally intended to attack the Boer position frontally, left intact by the enemy, possibly in order to entice the British troops right flank; but the weakness of the Boer position on that hill, which the following day, but on the 21st a cavalry attack forced De Wet out of Lord Roberts'' plan for the movement on the Transvaal was an advance in Lord Roberts ordered Ian Hamilton to march from the right flank to the The arrival of Buller''s force from the south gave Lord Roberts, who id = 17136 author = nan title = Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and Great Britain A Documentary Perspective Of The Causes Of The War In South Africa date = keywords = African; President; Republic; South; State; Volksraad; article summary = shall, when ratified by the Volksraad of the South African Republic, be ARTICLE 1.--This State shall bear the name of the South African ARTICLE 2.--The form of government of this State shall be that ARTICLE 32.--The election of members for the Volksraad shall ARTICLE 37.--The members of the Volksraad shall, before taking members of the Volksraad, sent in to the Executive Council, he shall ARTICLE 84.--The President shall be Chairman of the Executive ARTICLE 107.--The Field-Cornets shall, lawful prevention being ARTICLE 133.--The Courts of law shall, in fixing punishments, ARTICLE 7.--The members of the Second Volksraad shall enjoy the ARTICLE 19.--Each Volksraad shall have to judge if elections ARTICLE 23.--The sessions of both Volksraads shall be held in ARTICLE 24.--Each Volksraad shall keep minutes of its ARTICLE 27.--The Second Volksraad shall have the power to pass inhabitant of the South African Republic shall obtain the franchise, in id = 47449 author = nan title = South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 8 (of 8) South Africa and Its Future date = keywords = Africa; Boer; Bond; Cape; Colonies; Colony; Company; Dutch; England; English; Government; Imperial; Johannesburg; Law; London; Lord; Mr.; Natal; Orange; Rand; Rhodesia; River; Sir; South; State; Town; Transvaal; United; british; european; illustration summary = Emigration of white men and women to South Africa--how can we best In Cape Colony and the larger towns of South Africa, the the best means of working towards the end of South African Federation "For sixty years English was the sole official language in South Africa. South Africa was her country she ought to have governed it, instead of unite the Dutch and English people in South Africa in a common _Author of "South Africa," "The Progress of the British Empire in the that in South Africa generally parties will follow the lines of division the clamant demands of the one great industry of South Africa--the gold South African Railways (Transvaal and Orange River Colony). all South African railways working 5000 miles may be taken at South Africa and especially of the Cape Colony. British exports to our Colonies and India, South Africa is our third