Kloof and Karroo: Sport, Legend and Natural History in Cape ColonyLongmans, Green and Company, 1889 - 435 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 174 - Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan : A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which Man hath abandoned from famine and fear...
الصفحة 25 - A region of drought, where no river glides, Nor rippling brook with osiered sides ; Where sedgy pool, nor bubbling fount, Nor tree, nor cloud, nor misty mount, Appears to refresh the aching eye : But the barren earth and the burning sky, And the blank horizon, round and round, Spread — void of living sight or sound.
الصفحة 85 - Twas merry in the glowing morn, among the gleaming grass, To wander as we've wandered many a mile, And blow the cool tobacco cloud, and watch the white wreaths pass, Sitting loosely in the saddle all the while.
الصفحة 76 - Fly to the desert, fly with me, Our Arab tents are rude for thee ; But oh ! the choice what heart can doubt Of tents with love, or thrones without ? Our rocks are rough, but smiling there Th' acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less For flowering in a wilderness.
الصفحة 253 - The sultry summer-noon is past; And mellow evening comes at last, With a low and languid breeze Fanning the mimosa trees That cluster o'er the yellow vale, And oft perfume the panting gale With fragrance faint...
الصفحة 174 - And here, while the night-winds round me sigh, And the stars burn bright in the midnight sky, As I sit apart by the desert stone, Like Elijah at Horeb's cave alone,
الصفحة iii - Bryden. — KLOOF AND KAROO : Sport, Legend, and Natural History in Cape Colony, with a notice of the Game Birds, and of the present distribution of the Antelopes and Larger Game. By HA BRYDEN. With 17 full-page Illustrations.
الصفحة 16 - Jove, what a day ! Black Care upon the crupper Nods at his post, and slumbers in the sun ; Half of Theocritus, with a touch of Tupper, Churns in my head. The frenzy has begun ! LAWRENCE.
الصفحة 397 - Ostrich, for the society of which bird especially it evinces the most singular predilection. Moving slowly across the profile of the ocean-like horizon, uttering a shrill barking neigh, of which its name forms a correct imitation, long files of Quaggas continually remind the early traveller of a rival caravan on its march...
الصفحة 320 - ... is regularly performed every evening. If the motive of such a custom were that of cleanliness, the practice of it would deserve praise ; but to see the tub with the same water passed round through all the branches of the family, according to seniority, is apt to create ideas of a very different nature.