A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World:: But Chiefly Into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the Year 1772, to 1776, 第 2 卷

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G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster-row., 1786 - 368 頁
 

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第 292 頁 - He states that he has been assured that this method of feeding cattle has been practised with great advantage in Upland when there has been a scarcity of fodder ; and that afterwards these same cattle, even when they have not been in want of proper fodder, have taken to this food of their own accord, and have eaten it without anything else being mixed with it.
第 126 頁 - Yet, what even now appears to me a matter of wonder is, that as soon as we got a glimpse of the game, all this languor left us in an instant.
第 153 頁 - But if a chief mould chance to fall into the enemy's hands, he is not put to death, but is fent back again with admonitions to behave himfelf more peaceably for the future. The occafion of their wars is generally the fame as in other parts of the globe, viz. either a want of the common fentiments of humanity in one of the contending powers, or their arrogant and rapacious difpofition, or elfe...
第 164 頁 - ... degree fertile. So that, always sure of a rich harvest from a soil not yet worn out, and ever grateful to the culture bestowed upon it, he may be almost said merely to amuse himself with...
第 346 頁 - ... consent to their being united in wedlock, though all in vain, as from some whim or caprice he was induced absolutely to forbid it. The consequence was, that the lover was seized with a singular fit of despair; and having first plunged a dagger into the heart of the object of his dearest wishes, immediately afterwards put an end to his own life. But how many hundred instances, not less dreadful than these, might be produced to this purpose."* * 'Sparrman's Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope,
第 279 頁 - ... he did not, however, dare to come up, though to our extreme mortification we heard him come and nibble the boughs which hung over the furface of the water, as well as a little grafs and a few low fhrubs which grew here and there on the infide of the river's banks.
第 45 頁 - One of thefe animals, however, was once known to purfue an elk-antilope with the greateft eagernefs and ardour, without any one getting to fee the end of the chafe.
第 129 頁 - ... in the countenance of this buffalo. I was within ten steps of him when he perceived me, and bellowing raised himself suddenly again on his legs. I had reason to believe since, that I was at the time very much frightened ; for before I could well take my aim, I fired off" my gun, and the shot missed the whole of his huge body, and only hit him in the hind legs, as we afterwards discovered by the size of the balls. Immediately upon this I flew away like lightning, in order to look out for some...
第 50 頁 - ... with merely wounding the human fpecies ;. or at leaft, to wait fome time before he gives the fatal blow to the unhappy victim he has got under him. A...

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