History of South Africa 1795-1834S. Sonnenschein & Company, 1891 - 488 頁 |
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acting governor Algoa Bay appointed arrived Barolong Basuto Batavian Batlapin Betshuana British burghers Bushmen Caledon Cape Colony Capetown Captain cattle chief church clan coast colonists command commissioners council court of justice Cradock December district drostdy Dundas Dutch duty Earl Bathurst England English established Europeans farm farmers fieldcornet Fish river frontier Gaika Graaff-Reinet Grahamstown Griquas heemraden high court Hottentots hundred instructions issued Janssens January Kaffirland Kaffirs Kat river Keiskama Kosas kraal land landdrost Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Charles Somerset Makoma March ment Messrs military mission missionaries Moshesh mountain named Ndlambe occupied octavo volume October Orange ordinance party persons possession Prinsloo proclamation published at London regarded regiment residence reverend rixdollars Rufane Donkin salary secretary sent settlers ships Simonstown Sir Lowry Cole slaves soldiers South Africa station Stellenbosch Stockenstrom Swellendam Table Bay Tembus thousand tion tribes troops Tulbagh Tyumie Uitenhage village Willem Zuurveld
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第 205 頁 - We wish for peace; we wish to rest in our huts; we wish to get milk for our children; our wives wish to till the land. But your troops cover the plains, and swarm in the thickets, where they cannot distinguish the man from the woman, and shoot all. § " 'You want us to submit to Gaika.
第 74 頁 - VI. The Cape of Good Hope remains in full sovereignty to the Batavian republic, as it was before the war. The ships of every description belonging to the other contracting parties, shall have the right to put in there, and to purchase such supplies as they may stand in need of as heretofore, without paying any other duties than those to which the ships of the Batavian republic are subjected.
第 324 頁 - ... standing. They were to be appointed by the crown, and were not to hold any other office. In civil cases the chief justice and two puisne judges were to form a quorum...
第 201 頁 - But hand to hand we'll fight to-day And with their bayonets close. Grasp each man short his stabbing spear — And, when to battle's edge we come, Rush on their ranks in full career, And to their hearts strike home ! Wake ! Amakdsa, wake ! And muster for the war : The wizard-wolves from Keisi's brake, The...
第 397 頁 - With regard to the treatment of slaves in South Africa, all observers whose opinion is worthy of respect were agreed that in no other part of the world did bondage sit so lightly. . . . All the English governors and officials of position who reported upon the subject were agreed in this. Their statements might be condensed into a sentence used by Lord Charles Somerset in a despatch to Earl Bathurst : " No portion of the community is better off, or happier perhaps, than the domestic slave in South...
第 159 頁 - English authorities to punish them if by any means a pretext could be found. If it were not so, they asked, why were not charges made by them against Hottentots followed up in the same manner. As for the missionaries of the London society, from that time they were held by the frontier colonists to be slanderers and public enemies...
第 278 頁 - This common law is well adapted to people in a rude state of society. It holds every one accused of crime guilty unless he can prove himself innocent ; it makes the head of the family responsible for the conduct of all its branches ; the village collectively for all resident in it, and the clan for each of its villages.
第 169 頁 - ... agreed upon in a Supplementary Convention) to carry on trade between the said Settlements and the Territories in Europe of the said Sovereign Prince. It is also agreed between the two high Contracting Parties, that the ships of every kind belonging to Holland, shall have permission to resort freely to the Cape of Good Hope for the purposes of refreshment and repairs, without being liable to other charges than such as British subjects are required to pay.
第 335 頁 - laid down a theory that the coloured races were in all respects, except education, mentally equal to the European colonists, and that they were wrongfully and cruelly oppressed by the white people and the Government.
第 122 頁 - to recommend to your protection the inhabitants of this colony, whose happiness and welfare ever since I have been here were the chief objects of my care, and who conducted themselves during that period to my highest satisfaction. Give no credit in this respect .... to the enemies of the inhabitants.