 | Stephen Kay - Cape Province (South Africa) - 1833 - 550 pages
...silent Bush-boy alone by my side, Away, away, from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, and the buffalo's glen ; By valleys remote where the oribi plays ; Where the gnoo, the gazelle, and the hartebeest graze ; And the gemsbok and eland unhunted recline By the skirts... | |
 | Stephen Kay - Indigenous peoples - 1834 - 462 pages
...at the evening fall ; And the fiend-like laugh of hyenas grim, Fearfully startles the twilight dim. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side — Away, away in the wilderness vast, Where the white man's foot before never pass'd, And the restless Coranna or... | |
 | Stephen Kay - Indigenous peoples - 1834 - 468 pages
...weze, daarin te gaan ; It zal u bescherrnen — You need not fear to go therein ; I'll protect you." Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side. When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life, With its scenes of oppression, corruption, and strife... | |
 | Andrew Steedman - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1895 - 402 pages
...habit of carrying with them on crossing these desert plains, we left them to proceed on our journey : " Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone hy my side : Away— away— in the wilderness vast, Where the white man's foot hath seldom passed,... | |
 | Thomas Pringle, Leitch Ritchie - Africa, Southern - 1837 - 386 pages
...flood, And the mighty rhinoceros wallows at will In the fen where the wild-ass is drinking his fill. Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side : O'er the brown Karroo, where the bleating cry Of the springbok's fawn sounds plaintively ; And the... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...silent Bush-boy alone by my side : Away—away from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, and the buffalo's glen; By valleys remote, where the oribi plays; Where the gnoo, the gazelle, and the hartebeest graze; And the gemsbok and eland unhunted recline By the skirts... | |
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - Africa, Southern - 1838 - 454 pages
...INTEREST. IS INSCRIBED, WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF FRATERNAL REGARD. BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. ' Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side : Away—away from the dwellings of men, By the Antelope's haunt, and the Buffalo's glen ; By valleys... | |
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - Africa, Southern - 1839 - 440 pages
...):« insrritrtr, WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OP ESTEEM AND REGARD, BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. " Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent...: Away — away from the dwellings of men, By the Antelope's haunt, and the Buffalo's glen ; By valleys remote, where the Ourebi plays ; Where the Gnoo,... | |
 | Thomas Pringle, Leitch Ritchie - Africa, Southern - 1839 - 392 pages
...sun, — With that sadness of heart which no stranger may scan, I fly to the Desert afar from man ! Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side : When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life, With its scenes of oppression, corruption, and strife... | |
 | Natural history - 1840 - 180 pages
...And the mighty rhinoceros wallows at will In the v'ley* where the wild ass is drinking his fill. ' Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my side ; O'er the brown karroo, where the bleating cry Of the springbok's fawn sounds plaintively, • Vley,... | |
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Afar in the desert I love to ride. With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side... 
