European Colonies, in Various Parts of the World: Viewed in Their Social, Moral and Physical Condition, Volume 1Richard Bentley, 1834 - Colonies |
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aborigines abundance afford African Ocean amongst animals appear boors Boschmen Bulama Caffres Cape Town cattle cause character civilized climate coast of Africa colonists colony considered continue coun cultivated described desert Dutch European existence favourable fertile flocks foreign Gnatendal gold gold-dust gris-gris Guanches habits happens Hope Hottentots human hundred idea India Indian Ocean individuals indolence inhabitants interior island Karroo kind kloofs labour land latitude latter less Marabouts ment miles missionaries mountains nations natives nature navigation nearly negroes neighbourhood neighbouring never object observed opinion Orange River oxen particular persons population Portuguese possess present produced race racter regions remarkable render residence respect river river Senegal seldom Senegal settlement ships Sierra Leone similar slaves soil South Africa species subsistence supposed Table Bay tion torrid zone trade traveller tropical various vast vegetation vessel visited voyage waterspouts waves West Africa winds
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Page 65 - On the other hand, as some counterbalance to this depravity in their nature, allowing it to be such, it is impossible for me to forget the disinterested charity, and tender solicitude, with which many of these poor heathens (from the sovereign of Sego, to the poor women who received me at different times into their cottages, when I was perishing of hunger) sympathized with me in my sufferings; relieved my distresses; and contributed to my safety.
Page 59 - Negroes are all, without exception, crafty, villanous and fraudulent, and very seldom to be trusted, being sure to slip no opportunity of cheating an European, nor indeed one another. A man of integrity is as rare among them as a white falcon and their fidelity seldom extends farther than to their masters ; and it would be very...
Page 120 - They were invited to enter the fort, and were treated with liqueurs, sweetmeats, and presents, and urged to drink freely ; and no sooner did they show symptoms of confusion of ideas, than the factors proposed to trade with them, and displayed the articles which they were disposed to give in exchange 'for their slaves, &c. The unsuspicious negro -merchant, dazzled by the variety of tempting objects placed before him, and exhilarated by wine or brandy, was easily led to conclude a bargain little advantageous...
Page 182 - South only, in the night of the 4th and 5th of July, in the sixteenth degree of latitude; it was strongly inclined, and appeared from time to time between the clouds, the centre of which, furrowed by uncondensed lightnings, reflected a silver light. " If a traveller may be permitted to speak of his personal emotions* I shall add, that in this night I saw one of the reveries of my earliest youth accomplished.
Page 182 - We saw distinctly, for the first time, the cross of the south, only in the night of the 4th and 5th of July, in the sixteenth degree of latitude. It was strongly inclined, and appeared, from time to time, between the clouds, the centre of which, furrowed by uncondensed lightnings, reflected a silver light. The pleasure felt on discovering the southern cross was warmly shared by such of the crew as had lived in the colonies.
Page 116 - ... suggested the idea of the wearers being a band of drunken deserters, or of starved and maltreated prisoners of war. Each company was in the practice of annually sending a certain number of ships to its respective establishments, freighted with European goods suitable for traffic ; while its factors in Africa had in the meantime been collecting slaves, ivory, gumarabic, and other productions of the country ; so that the vessels on their arrival suffered no detention, but always found a return...
Page 181 - A traveller has no need of being a botanist to recognise the torrid zone on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions of astronomy, without any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and De la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship or the phosphorescent clouds of Magellan arise on the horizon. The heaven and the earth, and everything in the equinoctial regions, assumes an exotic character.
Page 114 - Hence they spent their time in smoking, in drinking palm-wine, and in gaming, and were generally carried off by fever or dissipation within two years after their arrival in the country. A. stranger on first visiting any of the African forts, felt that there was something both horrible and ludicrous in the appearance of its garrison; for the individuals composing it appeared ghastly, debilitated, and diseased, to a degree that is unknown in other climates; and their tattered and soiled uniforms, resembling...
Page 7 - On one very dark night it appeared to us like a flambeau on the summit of a large tree and thus remained for the space of two hours which was a matter of great consolation to us during the...
Page 109 - ... in the hands of one individual, who had various subordinates, according to the extent of the trade carried on at the place ; and if the troops who garrisoned the fort exceeded twenty or thirty, a commissioned officer usually had charge of them. The most remarkable forts were St George del Mina, erected by the Portuguese, though it subsequently fell into the hands of the Dutch ; Cape Coast Castle, the principal establishment of the English ; Fort Louis, at the mouth of the Senegal, generally occupied...