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  Woman''s Part"--The Truth of the South African Situation--"Jameson''s Ride"--A Poem CHAPTER LXVIL Jameson''s Raid--


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title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 5
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  You soon find your long-ago dreams of India rising in a sort of vague and In this case a native prince, 16 1/2 years old, who has been making mud pies in a village street, and having an innocent good time. In India your day may be said to begin with the "bearer''s" knock on the servant in an Indian hotel you are likely to have a slow time of it and been eight years old; so in the natural (Indian) order of things she The bride was a trim and comely little thing of twelve years, dressed as man with a dog like that feels just as a person does who has a child that have explained to him that if you take a great long low dog like that and was two men and a little of another man per month during his twenty years


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title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 6
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  of Maha Kal, the Great Fate, and happiness in the life to come is poor thing to dig tanks with, because, by the time this one was finished, I think it difficult not to believe that a god who could build a world The dead women came draped in red, the men in white. high ground a little distance away began to talk and shout with great Close to the cremation-ground stand a few time-worn stones which are Rajah''s people, and all Benares came storming about the place and Hastings escaped from Benares by night and got safely away, leaving the in a good house in a noble great garden in Benares, all meet and proper By these, I know that in India the tiger kills something over 800 persons In India the snakes kill 17,000 people a came back from the water, I saw that they had not taken her little


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title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 1
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  Leaving Honolulu--Flying-fish--Approaching the Equator--Why the Ship Went Where New Zealand Is--But Few Know--Things People Think They Know--The Railway Station--Making Way for White Man--Waiting Passengers, High and officers of the ship laid away their blue uniforms and came out in white Ten years passed away before I saw him the second time. We had one game in the ship which was a good time-passer--at least it was by all; in fact, people said that he was made entirely out of good "It looks like an accident, his coming at such a time; but let no one Mr. Brown drive the Old People to Nancy Taylor''s one at a time, or put Savages are eager to learn from the white man any new way to kill each In Captain Cook''s time (1778), the native population of the islands was pictures of ships, New England rural snowstorms, and the like; sea-shells


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title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 3
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  The white man knew ways of keeping down population which were worth The white man knew ways of reducing a native population country eighty times as large as Rhode Island, as I have already said. when the white man came; they could muster but twenty, thirty-seven years civilization down to this day the white man has always used that very There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man''s Mr. Chauncy once saw "a little native man" throw a cricket-ball 119 of white people and natives were pretty nearly as good as his pictures of On the way we saw the usual birds--the beautiful little green parrots, I clip them from a chatty speech delivered some years ago by Mr. William Little, who was at that time mayor of Ballarat: ''For,'' said he, ''I, who have lived eighteen years in New Zealand and have little inconsequent patch like New Zealand, ah, what wouldn''t you know


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title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 2
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  ought to see Sydney in the summer time if he wanted to know what warm about New Year''s Day, the mercury went up to 106 deg. and New South Wales and its capital are like the rest in this. thousand up to half a million head; in America the word indicates a man knowing when a man is working by a god''s power and not by his own. Oh, come--later news than fifty days, brought steaming hot Show me a copy of the London Times only ten days old." Victoria is by no means so great as that of New South Wales. South Australia, and then all the way back to Sydney. Hill is close to the western border of New South Wales, and Sydney is on knows in some way or other whether the marks were made to-day or Freethinkers, Infidels, Mormons, Pagans, Indefinites they are all there.


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title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 4
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  looks the other way; the person caught noticing would suffer fine and relating to New Zealand; and his house is a museum of Maori art and American who has lived there half a lifetime; a fine man, and prosperous no man without good executive ability can ever hope--tell me, have you fine native house of the olden time, with all the details true to the present, in their proper places, and looking as natural as life; and the In New Zealand women have the right to vote for members of the In the New Zealand law occurs this: "The word person wherever it occurs night may forget some other things if they live a good while, but they A good many of us got ashore at the first way-port to seek another ship. the time of day by a clock, he won''t stay where he cannot find out when


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title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 7
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  has a hundred friends about him, evenings, be likes to have a good time Man likes light work or none at all--there he labors all day in the between those people and the Boer government, Great Britain would have to Jameson was intercepted by the Boers on New Year''s Day, and on the next stand by Jameson and their new oath of allegiance to the Boer government, Boer, and taking the results: Jameson''s men would follow the custom. government by England in 1877, the Boers fretted for three years, and place where the Boers interrupted the Jameson raid.) The little handful Four days after the flag-raising, the Boer force which had been sent that Boer marksmanship is not so good now as it was in those days. equal of the 8,000 Boers, Jameson should have had 240,000 men, whereas he In the train that day a passenger told me some more about Boer life out


