Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia: Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection Up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force |
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Africander Corps amongst armed arrived Arthur Rhodes assegais attack Belingwe Bengula body Boer British Bulawayo Field Force bullet bush camp Captain Grey Captain Macfarlane Captain Van Niekerk cattle Cecil Rhodes coach Colonel Napier Colonel Spreckley Colonial Boys column command enemy Essexvale farm Fig Tree fight fire following morning Fynn Gifford Government Grey's Scouts guns Gwanda Gwelo heard homestead impi Induna Insiza insurrection Inyati JUNGLE Kafirs Khami river killed kopje kraal laager large number Lieutenant living Makalaka Mangwe March Mashunaland Matabele Matabeleland Matopo Hills Matopos Maxim Maxim guns miles mounted mules murdered native commissioner night once outbreak party patrol police reached Bulawayo rebels return to Bulawayo Rhodesia rifles rinderpest road round ROWLAND WARD Salisbury sent Shangani shooting shot skirmishing soon South Africa Spreckley's Tekwe Thaba town troop Trooper Umguza Umlimo Umzingwani waggon whilst Windley women and children wounded yards دو دو دو
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Page 289 - PRACTICAL AND ARTISTIC TAXIDERMISTS, Designers of Trophies of Natural History, Preservers and Adapters of all Specimens of Animal Life. Natural Features of Animals adapted in Original Designs for Decorative Purposes and Every-day Uses. Furriers and Plumassiers, and Collectors in Natural History.
Page 289 - Vienna International Exhibition, 1873. London International Fisheries, 1883. Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883-84. London International Health Exhibition, 1884. London Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. The Anglo-Danish Exhibition, South Kensington, 1888. The Royal Military Exhibition (Army Medical Department), 1890. IN THE COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION, LONDON, 1886, THE REPRODUCTION OF THE JUNGLE AND INDIAN ANIMAL LIFE Was designed and Arranged, and the Animals Modelled...
Page 289 - ROWLAND WARD is the only member left in the profession of the Ward Family, long unrivalled for their accumulated experience and their skill in Practical Taxidermy, especially in its artistic department. Medals and Diplomas of Honour for Artistic Work : London International Exhibition, 1862.
Page 67 - Therefore Matabeleland is doomed by what seems a law of nature to be ruled by the white man, and the black man must go, or conform to the white man's laws, or die in resisting them. It seems a hard and cruel fate for the black man, but it is a destiny which the broadest philanthropy cannot avert, whilst the British colonist is but the irresponsible atom employed in carrying out a preordained law - the law which has ruled upon this planet ever since, in the far-off misty depths of time, organic life...
Page 155 - Id,, the Kafirs thought they had got me, and commenced to shout out encouragingly to one another and also to make a kind of hissing noise, like the word "jee" long drawn out. All this time I was running as hard as I could after Windley and my runaway horse. As I ran carrying my rifle at the trail, I felt in my...
Page 154 - ... in the direction from which we had come. Being so very steady a pony, I imagine that a bullet must have grazed him and startled him into playing me this sorry trick at such a very inconvenient moment. " Come on as hard as you can, and I'll catch your horse and bring him back to you," said Windley, and started off after the faithless steed.
Page 203 - Fourie family early in the morning and found the remains of four people — a woman and three children, the body of Mr. Fourie and those of three of the children being missing. The murders had evidently been committed with knob-kerries and axes, as the skulls of all these poor people had been very much shattered. The remains had been much pulled about by dogs or jackals, but the long fair hair of the young Dutch girls was still intact, and it is needless to say that these blood-stained tresses awoke...
Page 30 - ... you probably know not your own nature, nor are you capable of analysing passions which can only be understood by those Europeans who have lived through a native rising, in which women and children of their race have been barbarously murdered by savages ; by beings whom, in their hearts, they despise ; as rightly or wrongly they consider that they belong to a lower type of the human family than themselves.
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The Development of Southern Rhodesia: From the Earliest Times to the Year ... Olive Carpenter No preview available - 1946 |