item: #1 of 143 id: 10355 author: Richardson, James title: Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. date: None words: 52364 flesch: 67 summary: He was disappointed at their want of liberality, as well as their want of sympathy for Morocco Jews. We have fewer than France, and many other countries; but our soldiers do not work like yours; they are always soldiers, and fight bravely. keywords: account; africa; barbary; british; christians; city; coast; consul; country; court; days; dollars; emperor; empire; england; english; european; french; gibraltar; god; government; governor; highness; house; interior; jews; man; maroquine; merchants; mogador; money; moorish; moors; morocco; muley; north; people; place; port; present; religion; slavery; slaves; south; spain; sultan; tangier; time; trade; wadnoun; way; women; years cache: 10355.txt plain text: 10355.txt item: #2 of 143 id: 10356 author: Richardson, James title: Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. date: None words: 52787 flesch: 67 summary: In the lesser and more remote towns, I have followed generally the enumeration of Count Gräberg, but there are many other places on the maps, with varieties of names or differences of position. The manufactures of this, as of other large places, are principally, silks, embroidery, and leather. keywords: africa; ancient; arabs; atlas; barbary; berbers; bey; british; camp; capital; cities; city; country; dates; day; desert; east; emperor; empire; european; fez; french; government; great; houses; inhabitants; jereed; jews; long; man; miles; mogador; moorish; moors; morocco; muley; north; number; palm; people; place; population; present; province; river; shereefs; sidi; sous; south; spain; sultan; tafilett; time; town; tribes; tunis; water; way; west; women; years cache: 10356.txt plain text: 10356.txt item: #3 of 143 id: 1039 author: Livingstone, David title: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa date: None words: 307953 flesch: 69 summary: Concerning himself he added, The gods have caused other men to drink water, but to me they have given bitter water of the chukuru (rhinoceros). Nor does it seem much of an evil for men who cultivate the soil to claim a right to appropriate lands for tillage which other men only hunt over, provided some compensation for the loss of sustenance be awarded. keywords: account; africa; angola; animals; appearance; bakwains; balonda; banks; barotse; bechuanas; black; body; boers; canoes; cape; case; cattle; chief; children; coast; color; coming; country; course; dark; day; days; death; deep; deg; direction; distance; district; east; english; falls; family; father; feet; fever; fine; fire; food; form; friends; game; general; good; government; grass; great; ground; half; hands; having; head; hills; home; house; idea; inches; inhabitants; island; ivory; journey; kind; know; lake; leave; leeambye; left; life; lion; livingstone; loanda; long; making; makololo; man; means; men; miles; missionary; mode; morning; native; new; night; north; number; opposite; order; oxen; party; path; people; place; point; portuguese; power; present; rain; region; return; river; rocks; saw; sea; sebituane; sechele; sekeletu; shinte; slaves; soil; south; spot; state; stream; sun; tete; thing; thought; time; town; trade; traders; trees; tribes; use; valley; village; visit; want; water; way; west; white; wild; women; work; yards; years; young; zambesi cache: 1039.txt plain text: 1039.txt item: #4 of 143 id: 10992 author: Abbott, Jacob title: Cleopatra date: None words: 61457 flesch: 62 summary: At last Cleopatra seized a number of Lathyrus's servants, the eunuchs who were employed in various offices about the palace, and after wounding and mutilating them in a horrible manner, she exhibited them to the populace, saying that it was Lathyrus that had inflicted the cruel injuries upon the sufferers, and calling upon them to arise and punish him for his crimes. Philotas adds, in his account of this affair, that he sent the gold and silver plate back to young Antony again, being afraid to keep them. keywords: alexandria; antony; army; battle; brutus; caesar; cause; character; city; cleopatra; command; country; course; day; death; egypt; fact; great; husband; influence; king; land; length; life; means; men; octavius; people; possession; power; ptolemy; respect; roman; rome; sea; time; troops; war; water; way; world; years cache: 10992.txt plain text: 10992.txt item: #5 of 143 id: 11104 author: Wharton, Edith title: In Morocco date: None words: 51822 flesch: 60 summary: Everywhere behind the bristling walls and rock-clamped towers of old Morocco lurks the shadowy spirit of instability. It is hard to guess the age of some of the featureless houses propping each other's flanks in old Fez or old Salé, but people rich enough to rebuild have always done so, and the passion for building seems allied, in this country of inconsequences, to the supine indifference that lets existing constructions crumble back to clay. keywords: africa; arab; architecture; art; arts; atlas; black; blue; century; children; city; country; court; day; desert; european; eyes; fez; france; french; gardens; general; green; harem; house; idriss; illustration; life; lyautey; man; market; maroc; marrakech; meknez; moroccan; morocco; moslem; mosque; moulay; north; palaces; photograph; place; rabat; red; ruins; salé; south; spain; sultan; tangier; time; town; tribes; walls; war; way; white; women; years cache: 11104.txt plain text: 11104.txt item: #6 of 143 id: 12101 author: Brawley, Benjamin Griffith title: A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia date: None words: 158720 flesch: 64 summary: A great field for the bribery of magistrates was opened up, and opportunity was given for committing to slavery Negro men about whose freedom there should have been no question. By 1830 feeling was acute throughout the country, especially in Ohio and Kentucky, and on the part of Negro men had developed the conviction that the time had come for national organization and protest. keywords: act; africa; american; american negro; anti; black; boston; carolina; case; chapter; charleston; chief; children; church; city; co.; coast; college; colonization; colony; color; company; congress; convention; country; course; court; day; days; early; economic; education; effort; england; english; fact; footnote; fort; free; freedom; general; george; georgia; good; government; governor; great; henry; history; home; house; indians; insurrection; james; january; john; july; labor; later; law; liberia; life; man; matter; means; meeting; members; men; nation; national; negro; negroes; new; new york; night; north; number; old; order; organization; people; period; persons; philadelphia; place; population; power; present; president; problem; public; question; race; republic; rights; robert; school; second; service; situation; slavery; slaves; society; south; southern; special; states; system; territory; thomas; time; town; trade; union; united; united states; university; virginia; war; washington; way; west; white; william; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 12101.txt plain text: 12101.txt item: #7 of 143 id: 12539 author: Corry, Joseph title: Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa The religion, character, customs, &c. of the natives; with a system upon which they may be civilized, and a knowledge attained of the interior of this extraordinary quarter of the globe; and upon the natural and commercial resources of the country; made in the years 1805 and 1806; with an appendix, containing a letter to Lord Howick, on the most simple and effectual means of abolishing the slave trade date: None words: 44830 flesch: 44 summary: They may properly be called the nurses and warriors of the kingdom; they urge their fellow subjects in the _first_ state to labour, they inspect the construction of the interior apartments, repel all attacks from enemies, and devour them with fury; and may be considered as the standing army of the state. an act of oblivion is passed relative to her former conduct; but where the crime of witchcraft is included, slavery is uniformly the consequence: those accused as partners of her guilt are obliged to undergo the ordeal by _red water_, redeem themselves by slaves, or go into slavery themselves. keywords: africa; attention; bance; barbarism; cape; chapter; character; chiefs; civilization; coast; colony; commerce; commercial; condition; consequence; countries; country; customs; day; form; general; goree; influence; inhabitants; interior; island; leone; man; men; nations; natives; nature; number; objects; observations; people; present; river; sierra; slave; slavery; species; state; subject; system; time; town; trade; tree; view; water; windward; | | cache: 12539.txt plain text: 12539.txt item: #8 of 143 id: 12561 author: Pfeiffer, Ida title: A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy date: None words: 110314 flesch: 72 summary: With this exterior view the traveller is fain to be content; for the Turks are here much more fanatical than those in Constantinople and many other towns, so that an attempt to penetrate even into the courtyard would be unsuccessful; the intruder would run the risk of being assailed with a shower of stones. In the lanes near the church are booths like those at Maria Zell in Steiermark, and many other places of pilgrimage, where they sell wreaths of roses, shells of mother-of-pearl, crucifixes, etc. keywords: air; alexandria; appearance; beyrout; board; building; cairo; church; city; coffee; constantinople; convent; country; day; days; distance; evening; feet; form; good; grotto; half; heat; hill; horses; hours; house; jerusalem; journey; kind; lay; left; length; lies; little; man; marble; miles; morning; mount; mountains; night; number; o'clock; pass; people; pillars; place; plain; rest; river; road; rock; room; round; saw; sea; stone; streets; thing; time; town; traveller; trees; valley; view; walls; water; way; white; women cache: 12561.txt plain text: 12561.txt item: #9 of 143 id: 12667 author: Huish, Robert title: Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa date: None words: 310304 flesch: 61 summary: The Arabs also dispose here of sundry commodities that have become obsolete in the north; the cast-off dresses of the mamelukes and other great men, and old sword-blades from Malta. Like other great men, who sometimes speak a great deal, without much meaning or sense being discoverable in their oration, the Eyeo chief began his speech by saying that he was very glad that he now saw a white man, and he doubted not that white man was equally glad to see him, and then, pointing to the various parts of his dress, he said, This cloth is not made in my country; this cap is of white man's velvet; these trousers are of white man's nankeen; this is a white man's shawl; we get all good things from white man, and we must therefore be glad when white man come to visit our country. keywords: account; adams; africa; ali; appearance; arabs; arrival; banks; black; body; boo; bornou; boy; brass; brother; camels; canoe; captain; character; chief; city; clapperton; cloth; coast; conduct; consequence; corn; country; course; day; days; death; denham; departure; distance; dress; end; england; english; european; evening; expedition; feet; fine; following; foot; general; gold; good; governor; great; half; hands; head; high; hills; horses; hours; house; hut; informed; inhabitants; interior; island; john; journey; kind; king; lander; left; length; life; looking; major; man; manner; market; master; means; men; messenger; miles; moment; moors; morning; natives; near; negro; negroes; niger; night; number; object; old; order; park; party; pay; people; person; place; power; present; principal; purpose; red; return; richard; river; road; round; sand; sea; set; sheep; slaves; state; sultan; sun; thing; timbuctoo; time; town; travellers; trees; vessel; village; visit; water; way; white; wives; women; years; young cache: 12667.txt plain text: 12667.txt item: #10 of 143 id: 13235 author: Childers, Erskine title: In the Ranks of the C.I.V. date: None words: 55588 flesch: 80 summary: At night camp fires twinkled far into the distance, and signals kept flashing from high peaks all round. Three times a day we ride bareback to water horses at the re-mount depot, passing picturesque Indian camps. keywords: action; battery; boers; camp; cold; convoy; dark; day; days; drivers; evening; fire; general; good; great; guns; half; harness; home; horses; hours; infantry; july; kit; left; line; man; march; men; miles; morning; night; officers; order; outside; place; rest; round; saddle; station; tea; things; time; town; train; veldt; waggons; water; way; wet; williams; work cache: 13235.txt plain text: 13235.txt item: #11 of 143 id: 13262 author: Blaikie, William Garden title: The Personal Life of David Livingstone Chiefly from his Unpublished Journals and Correspondence in the Possession of His Family date: None words: 189229 flesch: 68 summary: These were--Commander Bedingfield, R.N., Naval Officer; John Kirk, M.D., Botanist and Physician; Mr. Charles Livingstone, brother of Dr. Livingstone, General Assistant and Secretary; Mr. Richard Thornton, Practical Mining Geologist; Mr. Thomas Baines, Artist and Storekeeper; and Mr. George Rae, Ship Engineer; and whoever afterward might join the expedition were required to obey Dr. Livingstone's directions as leader. The recovery of an important private journal of Dr. Livingstone, which had been lost at the time when the _Missionary Travels_ was published, has thrown much new light on the part of his life immediately preceding his first great journey. keywords: africa; afterward; agnes; bishop; boers; book; brother; cape; character; chief; children; christian; church; coast; come; country; course; david livingstone; day; days; death; desire; directors; duty; england; expedition; family; father; feeling; fever; footnote; friend; future; geographical; god; good; gospel; government; great; heart; home; hope; house; influence; journal; journey; kind; kindness; kuruman; lady; lake; left; letter; life; little; livingstone; london; long; lord; love; man; men; miles; mind; missionaries; missionary; moffat; mrs; murchison; natives; new; nyassa; party; people; place; poor; portuguese; present; return; river; roderick; saw; sea; service; set; sir; slave; society; spirit; stanley; things; thought; time; trade; visit; water; way; wife; work; world; writing; years; young; zambesi; zanzibar cache: 13262.txt plain text: 13262.txt item: #12 of 143 id: 13777 author: Phelan, T. title: The Siege of Kimberley Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902); Eighteen Weeks in Eighteen Chapters date: None words: 68190 flesch: 70 summary: They were extremely well tended, and thanks to public solicitude, were the recipients of countless delicacies, including _bottled_ cheer. Some erred, unfortunately, in not confining themselves to a _little_ of the lava. keywords: afternoon; air; army; boers; bread; british; chapter; christmas; city; colonel; column; course; day; days; deal; diamond; enemy; general; good; guard; guns; half; home; horse; horseflesh; hours; houses; kimberley; law; life; little; long; man; meat; men; methuen; military; morning; natives; news; night; number; o'clock; outside; people; place; position; proclamation; public; relief; rhodes; river; saturday; shells; siege; situation; state; sunday; tea; things; thought; time; town; view; war; way; week; women cache: 13777.txt plain text: 13777.txt item: #13 of 143 id: 14297 author: Davis, Richard Harding title: The Congo and Coasts of Africa date: None words: 44306 flesch: 74 summary: But, in spite of the early massacres by the natives, in spite of attacks by wild beasts, in spite of pirate raids, of desolating plagues and epidemics, of wars with other white men, of damp heat and sudden sickness, there were men who patiently rebuilt the forts and factories, fought the surf with great breakwaters, cleared breathing spaces in the jungle, and with the aid of quinine for themselves, and bad gin for the natives, have held their own. To partition finally among the Powers this strip of death and disease, of uncountable wealth, of unnamed horrors and cruelties, has taken many hundreds of years, has brought to the black man every misery that can be inflicted upon a human being, and to thousands of white men, death and degradation, or great wealth. keywords: africa; american; bank; black; boat; boys; captain; coast; company; congo; day; english; french; german; good; government; great; home; house; illustration; ivory; king; leopold; man; men; miles; native; new; night; people; place; port; portuguese; river; rubber; ship; slaves; state; steamer; sun; time; trade; water; way; west; white; wood; work; years; zanzibar cache: 14297.txt plain text: 14297.txt item: #14 of 143 id: 14299 author: Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Grey title: Native Races and the War date: None words: 48329 flesch: 65 summary: I have similar testimonies from missionaries (not Englishmen); but I regret to say that these good men hesitate to have their names published,--not from selfish reasons,--but from love of their missionary work and their native converts, to whom they fear they will never be permitted to return if the ascendancy of the present Transvaal Government should continue, and Mr. Kruger should learn that they have published what they have seen in his country. For we have a debt to pay back to South Africa; and if we cannot resume our solemn responsibilities towards her and her millions of native peoples, in a chastened, a wiser and a more determined spirit than that which for some time has prevailed, it would be better to relinquish them altogether. keywords: africa; boers; british; cape; chief; colony; convention; country; day; dutch; england; english; following; footnote; frere; god; government; great; kruger; law; mackenzie; man; native; peace; people; policy; present; president; principles; public; queen; question; races; sir; slavery; south; south africa; state; time; transvaal; war; work; years cache: 14299.txt plain text: 14299.txt item: #15 of 143 id: 1436 author: Lobo, Jerónimo title: A Voyage to Abyssinia date: None words: 41414 flesch: 57 summary: The Nile runs here so near the shore that it might without much difficulty be turned through this opening of the mountains into the Red Sea, a design which many of the Emperors have thought of putting in execution, and thereby making a communication between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, but have been discouraged either by the greatness of the expense or the fear of laying great part of Egypt under water, for some of that country lies lower than sea. Among great numbers whom we consulted on this occasion, we were informed by some that we might go through Melinda. keywords: abyssinia; abyssins; account; aethiopia; church; country; danger; day; days; death; emperor; father; god; head; inhabitants; journey; king; kingdom; length; life; man; men; nile; patriarch; people; place; portuguese; red; sea; thought; time; viceroy; water; way cache: 1436.txt plain text: 1436.txt item: #16 of 143 id: 14400 author: Maspero, G. (Gaston) title: Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt date: None words: 87039 flesch: 75 summary: Low stone walls divide the garden into symmetrical compartments, like those which are seen to this day in the great gardens of Ekhmîm or Girgeh. 261.--Construction of a mummy-case, wall scene, Eighteenth Dynasty.] keywords: abydos; blue; body; bronze; chamber; chapel; columns; cut; dead; decoration; door; dynasty; egyptian; eighteenth; end; face; feet; fig; figures; form; gizeh; glass; gods; gold; ground; half; hall; head; height; house; iii; illustration; karnak; kind; king; left; limestone; lotus; man; mastaba; mummy; museum; note; parts; period; place; plan; pyramid; queen; rameses; red; relief; scene; second; small; square; statues; stone; surface; tell; temple; theban; thebes; time; tomb; vases; wall; wood; work cache: 14400.txt plain text: 14400.txt item: #17 of 143 id: 14426 author: Churchill, Winston title: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria date: None words: 86882 flesch: 74 summary: As I marched home an officer said to me: 'Why is it, when the Church spends so much on missionary work among heathens, she does not take the trouble to send good men to preach in time of war? It was very dry weather, and the bullets striking between the horsemen raised large spurts of dust, so that it seemed that many men must surely be hit. keywords: action; army; artillery; attack; battery; boers; bridge; brigade; british; buller; camp; cavalry; colenso; country; day; days; end; enemy; engine; field; fire; firing; force; forward; general; good; ground; guns; half; hill; horse; infantry; ladysmith; left; line; man; men; miles; natal; near; night; o'clock; officers; position; prisoners; railway; range; redvers; river; shell; sir; soldiers; south; thought; time; town; train; troops; tugela; war; white; yards cache: 14426.txt plain text: 14426.txt item: #18 of 143 id: 14451 author: White, Stewart Edward title: African Camp Fires date: None words: 77930 flesch: 81 summary: He proved to be a mild, deprecating little man, very eager to help, but without resources. Thousands of other men on roofs, in balconies, on the street, were doing the same thing. keywords: air; beast; black; boys; camp; cattle; country; course; dark; day; days; distance; dogs; dozen; end; eyes; fact; feet; fire; forest; game; going; good; grass; green; half; head; hills; hours; know; kudu; left; lions; look; man; masai; matter; memba; men; miles; morning; mountains; native; near; new; night; o'clock; open; people; plains; point; red; river; safari; sasa; set; ship; shot; stood; stream; sun; things; time; trees; water; way; white; work; yards cache: 14451.txt plain text: 14451.txt item: #19 of 143 id: 14466 author: Wilson, Sarah Isabella Augusta, Lady title: South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time date: None words: 75932 flesch: 64 summary: Mr. Keeley was a typical old colonist, one who knew the Boers and their character well, and I merely quote what he said, as no doubt it was, and is, the opinion of many other such men. I knew very little about all this then, but before I had been many days on board it was not difficult to discover that much mystery filled the air, and I was greatly excited at arriving in South Africa in such stirring times. keywords: africa; away; baden; black; boers; burghers; cape; colonel; country; day; days; dutch; england; english; evening; fact; friends; general; gentleman; good; government; home; horses; hospital; hours; house; johannesburg; keeley; laager; lady; leave; left; life; long; lord; mafeking; man; men; miles; months; morning; mrs; natives; night; north; occasion; people; place; powell; pretoria; railway; rhodes; river; road; room; round; siege; south; time; town; train; transvaal; visit; war; water; weeks; white; work; years cache: 14466.txt plain text: 14466.txt item: #20 of 143 id: 14900 author: Nielsen, Peter, active 1922-1937 title: The Black Man's Place in South Africa date: None words: 29578 flesch: 45 summary: [4] To most Europeans this smell seems to be more or less unpleasant but it must not be forgotten that it does not seem to affect the large numbers of white men of all nationalities who have found and still find pleasure in continued and intimate intercourse with African women. The seaports of Europe and America, and the Great War furnish too many sad examples of sexual ferocity by white men to allow us to think that they are in this respect inherently superior to the men of other races. keywords: africa; average; bantu; black; brain; capacity; children; civilisation; day; difference; education; european; fact; good; human; life; man; men; mind; native; nature; people; race; south; south africa; way; white; women; world cache: 14900.txt plain text: 14900.txt item: #21 of 143 id: 15106 author: Thomas, C. H. title: Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked date: None words: 41009 flesch: 50 summary: The rough labour all over South Africa is done mostly by Kaffirs and other coloured people. It is with real grief that I must record my convictions against the Boer nation as solely and entirely guilty, but with this qualification, that its responsibility is much attenuated by the fact, as I will endeavour to show, that the bulk of that people has been unconsciously decoyed as tools of a gigantic intrigue, a conspiracy which was originated some thirty years ago by an infamous Hollander coterie, and operated since by its product and engine, the now well-known Afrikaner Bond Association, with its significant motto of Afrika voor Afrikaners[1]--its object being no less than the eviction of all that is English from South Africa, and to substitute a federation of all South African States into one free and independent Republic, the affiliation to be with Holland instead, and Dutch the common and official language, other nations, in return for afforded aid, to participate in the trade and other advantages wrested from England. keywords: africa; afrikaner; afrikaner bond; boer; boer nation; boer people; boer war; bond; british; burghers; cape; cause; colonial; colonies; conditions; country; dutch; england; english; franchise; general; gold; good; government; holland; hollander; independence; krüger; language; means; members; natal; nation; object; orange; peace; people; president; relations; republics; rights; south; south africa; state; time; transvaal; uitlanders; war; way; years cache: 15106.txt plain text: 15106.txt item: #22 of 143 id: 15109 author: Hammond, Natalie Harris title: A Woman's Part in a Revolution date: None words: 39398 flesch: 83 summary: Fcp. 8vo., 7s. Fcp. 8vo., 2s. keywords: 10s; 12s; boers; book; cape; commissioner; committee; crown 8vo; day; days; edition; england; english; essays; fcp; george; government; hammond; high; history; home; house; husband; illustrations; jameson; johannesburg; john; kruger; leaders; life; m.a; man; men; mrs; net; new; night; people; plates; poems; post 8vo; president; pretoria; prison; prisoners; reformers; rev; room; sir; text; time; town; vols; william; women; works cache: 15109.txt plain text: 15109.txt item: #23 of 143 id: 15110 author: Wilkinson, Spenser title: Lessons of the War: Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith date: None words: 36160 flesch: 63 summary: His task is both difficult and dangerous; he has not merely to break the Boer resistance by sheer hard fighting, but to run the risk that Boer forces from other quarters, perhaps from the army invading Cape Colony, may be brought up in his rear, and that he may in this way be turned, enveloped, and invested. Next, it was proved-by that battle, in which the Boer force was large enough to make the victory most difficult, and by the arrival after the battle of fresh Boer forces, that Lord Methuen's force was not strong enough for its work. keywords: advance; army; attack; boer; boer army; boer force; brigade; british; buller; cape; division; force; general; government; ladysmith; lord; natal; nation; position; river; sir; sir george; sir redvers; state; time; troops; war; white cache: 15110.txt plain text: 15110.txt item: #24 of 143 id: 15131 author: Phillipps, L. March (Lisle March) title: With Rimington date: None words: 59923 flesch: 79 summary: Beyond the guns and Maxims other men are moving up. Our camp is in a small plain, five or six miles from Fouriesberg, surrounded by ranges of great hills. keywords: action; advance; army; attack; big; boers; camp; column; country; day; end; enemy; fighting; fire; good; guns; hill; horses; infantry; left; letter; life; line; look; man; march; men; miles; modder; morning; north; people; place; plain; position; range; right; river; round; shell; shot; sort; south; things; time; veldt; war; way; white; work cache: 15131.txt plain text: 15131.txt item: #25 of 143 id: 15160 author: Van Warmelo, Dietlof title: On Commando date: None words: 34435 flesch: 77 summary: There were many old men and boys who preferred the society of the women to the danger of the bombs. The Boer women were sometimes forced to accept the protection of the enemy, after their farms and property had been destroyed by friend and enemy alike. keywords: attack; battle; burghers; camp; commando; day; days; direction; enemy; farm; general; hands; horses; khakies; kopje; lager; left; men; mountains; night; rest; river; time; war; way; women; wounded cache: 15160.txt plain text: 15160.txt item: #26 of 143 id: 15175 author: Smuts, Jan Christiaan title: A Century of Wrong date: None words: 50566 flesch: 51 summary: In order to make it perfectly clear that the status of the Republic was put upon another basis, the title Transvaal State was altered to that of the South African Republic. You will observe that in the preamble and throughout the Convention the wish of your Government that the designation South African Republic should be substituted for Transvaal State has been complied with. keywords: administration; african; african republic; annexation; article; boers; british; cape; case; colony; commission; convention; country; england; english; fact; fields; footnote; government; high; law; majesty; meeting; natives; order; people; place; point; policy; regard; republic; river; sidenote; sir; south; south africa; state; time; transvaal; war; way; world cache: 15175.txt plain text: 15175.txt item: #27 of 143 id: 15224 author: Pienaar, F. F. (Filippus Fourie) title: With Steyn and De Wet date: None words: 34690 flesch: 81 summary: British ambulance men were busy collecting corpses. Travelling with me in the train were several men on their way to the Free State, where our forces were being hard pressed. keywords: boers; british; camp; commando; day; days; enemy; general; good; heilbron; hill; horses; know; leave; left; line; little; man; men; miles; morning; night; office; place; president; road; state; time; town; war; way; wet cache: 15224.txt plain text: 15224.txt item: #28 of 143 id: 15240 author: Dorman, Marcus Roberts Phipps title: A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State date: None words: 54837 flesch: 73 summary: Natives who commit offences against other natives, are left to be dealt with by the local Chief[2]. Bolobo is very populous and many natives flocked down to the beach immediately the steamer arrived and at once held an outdoor market on the beach selling manioc, fish, clothes, pots of various kinds and other articles to the crew and passengers. keywords: bank; canoe; chief; cloth; congo; country; course; crew; day; feet; food; forest; french; good; government; grass; hand; head; house; kind; land; left; line; man; men; miles; morning; native; night; order; people; place; post; reach; river; rubber; soldiers; state; steamer; time; town; trees; village; water; way; white; women; wood; work; years cache: 15240.txt plain text: 15240.txt item: #29 of 143 id: 15520 author: Bennett, Ernest Nathaniel title: With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train date: None words: 24707 flesch: 68 summary: But in the hurry of the moment, and very naturally under the circumstances, some seventeen of the Boers who were _bonâ-fide_ ambulance men were arrested on suspicion and despatched with the crafty gunners to Capetown. Wounded men frequently lose so much blood before they are found that their clothes become quite stiff, and the best thing to do is to cut the whole uniform off them and wrap them in blankets. keywords: aar; ambulance; boers; bullets; camp; capetown; course; day; enemy; england; fight; fire; general; ground; kopjes; left; line; long; man; men; modder; people; position; river; shell; soldier; time; train; trenches; war; way; white; wounded; yards cache: 15520.txt plain text: 15520.txt item: #30 of 143 id: 15561 author: Mann, Arthur M. title: The Boer in Peace and War date: None words: 15940 flesch: 70 summary: The preliminary salutations of another pair of Boers are probably as interesting. The Boers were, of course, very much excited, and the English merchant was looked upon scornfully and contemptuously. keywords: boer; burghers; country; course; dutch; english; fact; farmers; good; illustration; instance; man; matter; men; people; state; time; transvaal; young cache: 15561.txt plain text: 15561.txt item: #31 of 143 id: 15699 author: None title: A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans date: None words: 122240 flesch: 60 summary: The northward retreat of De Wet through the Orange River Colony in March, 1901, drew in its trail a host of British columns, which plodded sturdily across the veld with scanty results. The ejectment of De Wet, to be followed by an advance on Bloemfontein by French's cavalry, was substituted by Lord Roberts for the assault on the laager, which was to be left to starve itself out. keywords: action; advance; army; attack; bank; bloemfontein; boers; botha; brigade; british; buller; burghers; cavalry; colony; column; command; commandos; cronje; day; days; de wet; delarey; division; drift; end; enemy; february; fire; flank; force; french; general; guns; hamilton; hill; infantry; kimberley; kitchener; kop; ladysmith; left; line; little; lord; lord roberts; march; men; miles; military; modder; movement; natal; near; nek; north; orange; position; pretoria; railway; right; river; situation; south; state; success; time; transvaal; troops; war; west; wet; white cache: 15699.txt plain text: 15699.txt item: #32 of 143 id: 15972 author: Jacson, Mainwaring George title: The Record of a Regiment of the Line Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902 date: None words: 40599 flesch: 70 summary: The 1st Devon Regiment was formed in company column at fifty paces as a reserve to the Manchester Regiment. Shortly after the force had settled into camp heavy gun fire was heard from the direction of Waterval. keywords: a.m.; advance; attack; battalion; boers; brigade; buller; camp; captain; colonel; column; companies; company; day; devons; fire; following; force; garrison; general; guns; hill; infantry; kitchener; ladysmith; left; lieutenant; lydenburg; major; march; miles; night; north; position; post; railway; regiment; road; time; wounded cache: 15972.txt plain text: 15972.txt item: #33 of 143 id: 16131 author: Hales, A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) title: Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front date: None words: 71595 flesch: 75 summary: Few men have had so many hand-to-hand encounters with the burghers as he has; few men have held their lives by virtue of their steady hand on a rifle as frequently as this wild, good-natured, merry Irishman has done. Some of 'em are fit only for a dog's death, but most of 'em are good men; and if I wasn't an Irishman I wouldn't mind being a Boer, for they've no call to hang their heads and blush when this war is over. keywords: army; australians; battle; black; blood; boer; british; camp; country; day; dead; death; enemy; england; eyes; face; feet; fellows; fighting; fire; flag; foe; force; general; god; good; guns; half; hand; head; home; horse; know; kopjes; lay; left; life; like; line; look; man; men; people; place; position; rifles; right; round; rundle; saw; scouts; soldiers; things; time; troops; veldt; war; way; white; work; world; wounded cache: 16131.txt plain text: 16131.txt item: #34 of 143 id: 16160 author: Weigall, Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) title: The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology date: None words: 78480 flesch: 68 summary: It is appalling to think that the peasants who found this roll of papyrus might have used it as fuel for their evening fire; and that, had not a drifting rumour of the value of such articles reached their village, this little tale of old Egypt and the long-lost Kingdoms of the Sea would have gone up to empty heaven in a puff of smoke. CHAPTER VI. The earthly grave will not hide, nor the mountain tomb imprison, the actions of the men of old Egypt, so consequent and fruitful are all human affairs. keywords: akhnaton; antiquities; archæologist; archæology; chapter; city; country; day; days; dead; death; dynasty; egypt; egyptian; end; fact; flowers; god; gods; good; great; hand; history; horemheb; iii; king; land; left; life; light; man; manner; men; mind; money; museum; nation; new; nile; objects; order; past; people; pharaoh; place; present; prince; queen; sea; set; study; syria; tell; temple; thebes; thee; thou; time; tomb; value; water; way; wenamon; work; world; years cache: 16160.txt plain text: 16160.txt item: #35 of 143 id: 16337 author: Steevens, G. W. (George Warrington) title: From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War date: None words: 30200 flesch: 81 summary: But it is only compassion for the dead that dries up; and as it dries, the spring wells up among good men of sympathy with all the living. More men down, more men pushed into the firing line--more death-piping bullets than ever. keywords: black; boer; british; camp; capetown; come; day; dead; end; enemy; fire; good; guns; half; hill; hour; ladysmith; left; life; line; long; man; men; miles; morning; right; round; shell; south; state; steevens; time; veldt; war; way; white; work; world cache: 16337.txt plain text: 16337.txt item: #36 of 143 id: 16399 author: Young, Frederick title: A Winter Tour in South Africa date: None words: 28805 flesch: 61 summary: [Illustration: MY WAGON.] TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS, PRINCESS LOUISE, MARCHIONESS OF LORNE, This Volume, describing a recent tour, during which a large portion of Her Majesty's magnificent Dominions in South Africa were traversed, is, by gracious permission, dedicated with feelings of sincere respect. This is especially the case with South Africa. keywords: africa; british; cape; cape town; colonial; colony; country; day; decorative; dutch; empire; english; frederick; gold; government; house; illustration; imperial; kimberley; miles; people; policy; present; public; railway; sir; south; south africa; time; town; transvaal; years; young cache: 16399.txt plain text: 16399.txt item: #37 of 143 id: 16460 author: Sellers, William E. title: From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa date: None words: 54694 flesch: 77 summary: Many such men have been brought to know Christ through this great and awful war. Night by night men were seeking Christ. keywords: africa; aldershot; army; away; battle; boers; british; camp; chaplain; chapter; christian; church; come; day; england; face; field; general; god; good; home; hospital; ladysmith; left; life; lord; man; march; men; morning; night; place; prayer; rev; river; service; soldiers; south; sunday; tent; time; town; troops; war; way; wesleyan; work; wounded cache: 16460.txt plain text: 16460.txt item: #38 of 143 id: 16462 author: Hillegas, Howard Clemens title: With the Boer Forces date: None words: 62832 flesch: 58 summary: It was quite in keeping with their other ideas of personal comfort for many Boer burghers to carry a coloured parasol or an umbrella to protect them from the rays of the sun, and it was not considered beneath their dignity to wear a woman's shawl around their shoulders or head when the morning air was chilly. It is not hard to understand why many men should become fascinated with warfare and travel to the ends of the earth in order to take part in it, but a soldier of fortune needs to make no apologies. keywords: battle; boer; boer army; boer burgher; boer country; boer forces; boer generals; boer women; botha; british; burghers; campaign; commandant; commando; country; cronje; day; days; enemy; field; fighting; forces; general; general cronje; government; great; horses; joubert; kruger; ladysmith; man; men; meyer; military; natal; number; officers; order; president; pretoria; soldiers; south; state; time; transvaal; waggons; war; wet; women; work; years cache: 16462.txt plain text: 16462.txt item: #39 of 143 id: 16463 author: Mc Donald, R. D. (Roelof Daniel) title: In the Shadow of Death date: None words: 65466 flesch: 76 summary: Such men, who are willing to suffer and sacrifice all for freedom's sake, surely deserve to succeed at last.--Yours fondly, R.D. MCDONALD. With such men to lead the British forces on to battle, if not to victory, three months were considered all too long by many to crush and wipe out of existence two small republics. keywords: africa; boer; british; burghers; cape; colonists; colony; commandant; commando; country; day; dutch; enemy; english; farm; fire; forces; general; government; guns; hill; horses; kritzinger; left; line; man; men; miles; natives; night; officers; orange; positions; republics; river; shot; south; state; surrender; time; war; way; wet; wounded cache: 16463.txt plain text: 16463.txt item: #40 of 143 id: 16466 author: Pearse, Henry H. S. title: Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith date: None words: 62283 flesch: 60 summary: Soon other Boer guns joined in from Lombard's Kop and the slopes of Bulwaan, throwing shells about the town as if resolved to compass its ruin. The Meddler cannot reply to them effectively, and other Boer guns try in vain to reach them. keywords: artillery; attack; battery; boers; bombardment; british; buller; bulwaan; burst; camp; captain; colonel; day; days; enemy; fire; flag; force; general; george; good; guns; half; hill; horse; ladysmith; light; line; long; major; man; men; morning; naval; near; officers; point; position; range; ridge; rifle; round; royal; shells; shot; siege; sir; time; tom; town; troops; waggon; way; white cache: 16466.txt plain text: 16466.txt item: #41 of 143 id: 16494 author: Fitzpatrick, Percy title: The Transvaal from Within: A Private Record of Public Affairs date: None words: 187987 flesch: 57 summary: I at once replied that the ultimatum required the surrender of guns and ammunition for which no permit of importation had been obtained, and that onus rested with Transvaal Government to show that guns and ammunition were concealed for which no permit had been issued. There is scarcely an Uitlander in the Transvaal who would not view with dismay the raising of the big question upon such grounds as the treatment of the natives, the Cape boys, or the Indians; and the fact that the Transvaal Government know this may account for much of the provocation on these questions. keywords: action; african; annexation; arms; article; boer government; boers; british; burghers; case; commandant; commissioner; committee; company; conditions; country; course; court; cronjé; day; dutch; effect; english; evidence; executive; fact; following; force; franchise; general; good; government; government commission; honour; jameson; january; johannesburg; johannesburg people; judge; justice; kruger; law; left; letter; line; majesty; man; matter; meeting; members; mines; native; number; officials; opinion; order; party; people; persons; place; point; policy; position; power; present; president; president kruger; pretoria; prisoners; question; railway; reform; reformers; reply; republic; result; right; settlement; sir; south; state; state president; subject; terms; time; town; transvaal; trial; uitlanders; view; volksraad; war; way; white; years cache: 16494.txt plain text: 16494.txt item: #42 of 143 id: 16526 author: Bensusan, S. L. (Samuel Levy) title: Morocco date: None words: 57718 flesch: 73 summary: The city's seven gates were fast closed, though doubtless there were long files of camels and market men waiting patiently without. The blessed one was instructed to assure the village that I had no suspicion of the bird's holiness, and that it was my rule in life to respect everything that other men respected. keywords: allah; camp; children; city; country; day; days; end; evening; forest; good; half; hand; house; illustration; journey; kaid; land; life; little; lord; maalem; man; market; marrakesh; master; men; money; moorish; moors; morocco; mules; native; night; past; people; place; road; round; saint; salam; set; sidi; slaves; sultan; sun; tangier; time; town; village; walls; water; way; white; women; work cache: 16526.txt plain text: 16526.txt item: #43 of 143 id: 16600 author: Radziwill, Catherine, Princess title: Cecil Rhodes, Man and Empire-Maker date: None words: 60552 flesch: 58 summary: I never have been able to ascertain how much of real truth, if any, was in the various accusations made against Cecil Rhodes by the English General Officers, but they were embodied in the message which was alleged to have been flashed across to Kimberley after the battle of Modder River by Lord Methuen, but which was supposed by those whom it concerned to have been inspired by the Commander-in-Chief: Tell Mr. Rhodes, the heliograph ran, that on my entry into Kimberley he and his friends must take their immediate departure. In the question of restoring peace to South Africa Rhodes most certainly would never have taken anyone's advice; he would have acted according to his own impulse, and more so because Doctor Jameson was not with him during the whole time Kimberley was besieged. keywords: african; alfred; alfred milner; boer; bond; british; camps; cape; cecil rhodes; colony; country; dutch; england; english; fact; friends; good; government; influence; kimberley; kruger; life; man; milner; new; party; people; power; public; raid; rhodes; sir; sir alfred; south africa; things; thought; time; town; transvaal; war; way cache: 16600.txt plain text: 16600.txt item: #44 of 143 id: 16603 author: Nevinson, Henry Woodd title: Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege date: None words: 62527 flesch: 82 summary: SHELL ON A PRIVATE HOUSE 201 SPECIMEN OF BOER SHELLS 252 INDIAN BAKERY 268 GENERAL RT. [Illustration: SPECIMENS OF BOER SHELLS] A lesser disaster this morning befel Captain Jennings Bramley, of the 19th Hussars. keywords: afternoon; attack; boers; buller; bulwan; camp; colonel; day; days; dead; end; enemy; fire; firing; general; good; guns; half; head; hill; horses; ladysmith; left; line; long; man; men; miles; morning; natal; night; officers; past; position; post; range; ridge; rifle; river; road; rocks; round; shells; shot; siege; thought; time; tom; town; war; way; white; wounded cache: 16603.txt plain text: 16603.txt item: #45 of 143 id: 16672 author: Livingstone, David title: The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 date: None words: 125264 flesch: 79 summary: In general, runaway slaves are bad characters, but these two seem good men, and we want them to fill up our complement: another volunteer we employ as goatherd. We did not get an audience from Casembe; the fault lay with Kapika--Monteiro's escort--being afraid to annoy Casembe by putting him in mind of it, but on the 15th Casembe sent for me, and told me that as the people had all fled from Chikumbi's, he would therefore send guides to take us to Kabaia, where there was still a population; he wished me to wait a few days till he had looked out good men as guides, and ground some flour for us to use in the journey. keywords: 1866._--we; arabs; beads; bin; boys; casembe; chief; cloth; coast; coming; country; day; days; december; deep; east; end; feet; fine; fish; food; forest; good; grass; ground; half; hands; headman; hills; hours; huts; ivory; july; june; know; lake; leave; left; like; livingstone; long; man; march; mazitu; men; miles; moero; mohamad; morning; mountains; natives; near; new; night; north; november; nsama; nyassa; october; party; path; people; place; present; rain; range; return; river; rovuma; sea; sepoys; slaves; soil; south; syde; tanganyika; thought; time; trees; village; waiyau; water; way; west; women; yards cache: 16672.txt plain text: 16672.txt item: #46 of 143 id: 16859 author: Luckhoff, A. D. (August D.) title: Woman's Endurance date: None words: 25222 flesch: 82 summary: Unpack; three Red Cross boxes (gift of the chemist); order out of chaos; spirits revive; visits 2.5 p.m. Dying child; mother broken-hearted. Burial ground; about 120 graves; weeping mothers; visit dying child; fool of myself, broke down in prayer; the helplessness in presence of Death! keywords: afternoon; becker; camp; children; daughter; day; days; dead; death; die; doctor; dying; evening; footnote; funerals; girl; god; het; hospital; man; mij; minheer; morning; mother; mrs; nie; night; people; poor; sir; tent; things; van; visit; wonder; work; yesterday; young cache: 16859.txt plain text: 16859.txt item: #47 of 143 id: 17136 author: None title: Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and Great Britain A Documentary Perspective Of The Causes Of The War In South Africa date: None words: 18980 flesch: 57 summary: Ultimatum of South African Republic, October 9, 1899 57 8. These provisions do not preclude the consideration of special arrangements as to import duties and commercial relations between the South African Republic and any of Her Majesty's colonies or possessions. keywords: african; african republic; article; council; executive; field; government; law; majesty; members; president; republic; south; state; volksraad; years cache: 17136.txt plain text: 17136.txt item: #48 of 143 id: 17592 author: English, George Bethune title: A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy date: None words: 39135 flesch: 67 summary: The tract of country included between the Adit and the Bahar el Abiud is called El Gezira, i.e. the island: because, in the season of the rains, many rivers running from the mountains in the south into the Bahar el Abiud and the Adit, occasion this tract to be included by rivers. I do not consider it as meriting this appellation so much on account of its periodical and regular floods, in which respect it is resembled by several other rivers, as on account of another circumstance, in which, so far as I know, it is without a parallel. keywords: army; arrival; bank; berber; boat; camels; camp; cataract; country; day; days; desert; egypt; footnote; hour; malek; man; march; miles; nile; pasha; people; place; river; rocks; sennaar; shore; villages; water; wind cache: 17592.txt plain text: 17592.txt item: #49 of 143 id: 17968 author: Guyot, Yves title: Boer Politics date: None words: 39727 flesch: 63 summary: Dr. Kuyper tells us that neither he nor Mr. Krüger recognise them, considering them to have been vitiated by the Annexation of 1877. Now what does Dr. Kuyper think of the Volksraad's mode of legislation, and of the manner in which Mr. Krüger, that man of intelligence and superior morality, interprets respect for justice? CHAPTER VI. keywords: african; arbitration; article; boers; british; case; chamberlain; chapter; conference; convention; england; english; franchise; gold; government; krüger; kuyper; law; mines; president; president krüger; pretoria; question; republic; right; sir; siècle; south; state; suzerainty; time; transvaal; uitlanders; volksraad; war; years cache: 17968.txt plain text: 17968.txt item: #50 of 143 id: 18506 author: Cameron, Verney Lovett title: To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II date: None words: 94125 flesch: 75 summary: The impossible handles were worthy of the blades, bulging grips between two huge balls utterly unfitted for handling; four were covered with thin gold-plate in _repoussé_ work, and one with silver. Properly speaking 'kru' and 'man' are the town, or common centre of many _akura_ (plantation-hamlets), in which the owners keep their families and _familiæ_. keywords: african; ancobra; ashanti; axim; bank; bed; black; bush; cameron; cape; captain; chief; clay; coast; company; concession; country; cut; day; days; earth; east; eastern; effuenta; england; english; feet; fetish; fine; footnote; fort; french; gold; gold coast; good; government; grand; ground; half; hands; head; high; hill; home; hours; house; iron; king; labour; land; late; left; leone; lies; life; line; long; man; march; means; men; metal; miles; mining; morning; native; near; negro; new; north; palm; path; pay; people; place; present; quarters; quartz; red; reef; return; right; river; rock; sand; sea; second; set; settlement; shaft; sierra; south; stone; stream; time; town; trade; tree; tákwá; village; war; water; way; west; western; white; women; work; working; yards; years cache: 18506.txt plain text: 18506.txt item: #51 of 143 id: 18764 author: Meakin, Budgett title: Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond date: None words: 108875 flesch: 67 summary: There are several _cafés_ where Morocco men are to be met with by the score. Euan, 206 Snake-charming, 137, 151-158 Social life, Moorish, 82-87 Spain, Moorish empire in, founded by Berbers, 6, 54; footprints of Moors in, 332-379; place-names and words of Arabic origin, 333, 369; physiognomy of the people, 335; habits and customs, 335; salutations, 336; narrow streets, 336; forts and mosques (churches), 337; the mosque at Córdova (_q.v._); Girálda and El Kasar at Sevílle (_q.v._); the Alhambra at Granáda (_q.v._); other Moorish towns, villages, castles, and remains, 366-379; women of, at the battle of Jaca, 378 Sports and pastimes, Moorish: active, 96, 133-137; passive, 138-150, 151-158, 159-165 Stamps and stamp-dealers, 287 Story-teller, the, 122, 137, 138-150; Mulai Abd el Káder and the Monk of Monks, 141-148 T Tafilált, home for discarded Sultanas, 73 Tangier, English cede possession of, 9, 383; drunkenness and vice, 41; North African Mission, 42; shopping in, 118-124; market-place, 121-123; Sunday market, 125-132; salt-pans, 129; English Church at, 132; starting-place for Mekka pilgrims, 192, 196; residence of ambassadors, 205; gaol at, 233; many Frenchmen at, 300 Tarifa, Moorish remains at, 366 Tarragona, cathedral of, 373 Tea, making, 86, 103 Tilework of Algeria, 316 Toledo, 336, 373; Moorish hydraulists, 374; Ez-Zarkal's water-clocks, 374; cathedral, 374; sword-manufacture, 375 Tortosa, ancient pirate stronghold, 372 Tripoli, city and people, 326-331; the Turkish element in, 326; viewed from Morocco, 326-331; mosques, 328; irrigation, 330 Tunis, city, 321, 322 Tunisia, 299, 308; viewed from Morocco, 318-325; under French rule, 318-320; Jews in, 319; Arabs in, 322; Moors in, 322; women in, 325 V Valencia, ancient Moorish paradise, 372 W Water-carriers, Moorish, 132, 149 Water-clocks, Ez-Zarkal's, 374 Wazzân, Shareef of, present representative of Shurfá Idreeseeïn dynasty, 5, 296 Wilhelm II. keywords: abd; algeria; arabic; british; case; centre; children; city; country; course; court; day; days; door; empire; end; english; european; eyes; face; fact; feet; fez; find; fine; foreign; form; france; french; friends; general; god; good; government; half; hand; head; home; house; interpreter; land; left; life; lord; majesty; making; man; market; master; means; men; minister; money; moorish; moors; morocco; mosque; mulai; native; new; number; open; outside; pay; people; place; point; position; present; proverb; public; remains; result; right; round; slave; spain; spanish; state; story; style; sultan; sun; tangier; thee; things; thou; time; town; walls; war; water; way; white; women; work; years cache: 18764.txt plain text: 18764.txt item: #52 of 143 id: 18794 author: De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf title: Three Years' War date: None words: 155990 flesch: 69 summary: Commandant General Botha then rose, and said: I am glad to have an opportunity of giving my views upon the present state of affairs. Other burghers I told off to fetch water from our prisoners' canteens, to supply our own wounded. keywords: african; bethlehem; boer; botha; british; burghers; chief; colony; commandant; commander; commandos; country; day; district; enemy; english; fire; following; footnote; force; free; general; general de; government; guns; horses; independence; kitchener; kroonstad; left; line; lord; majesty; meeting; miles; milner; morning; nation; night; north; orange; order; place; position; president; prinsloo; prisoners; proposal; railway; republic; river; south; state; steyn; surrender; thought; time; transvaal; troops; waggons; war; way; wet; women cache: 18794.txt plain text: 18794.txt item: #53 of 143 id: 19895 author: Fisher, Sydney George title: The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal" date: None words: 11737 flesch: 65 summary: The prospect of raising such men as the lynchers to power by a revolution was a serious matter. Washington collected more men until his 3,300 had become 6,000 and with these raw militia he gobbled up those Hessian outposts just as the Boers have been gobbling up similarly placed British outposts. keywords: army; boers; british; country; england; independence; man; men; people; rebel; revolution; time; war; washington; years cache: 19895.txt plain text: 19895.txt item: #54 of 143 id: 20194 author: Brandt, Johanna title: The Petticoat Commando: Boer Women in Secret Service date: None words: 95124 flesch: 73 summary: No one knew what to do; there were no organised Boer forces to join, there was no one in command, and, after long deliberation, the two young men, urged by mother and sister, came to the conclusion that, whatever other men might be doing, _their_ duty was to get out of Pretoria and join whatever band of fighting burghers there might still be in the field. As he never recovered the entire use of that arm, he was detained in Pretoria with other men unable to escape, and, carrying his left arm in a sling, he was made use of by the Secret Committee and by Mrs. Joubert, who employed him as her coachman. keywords: boer; book; botha; british; burghers; camps; captain; chapter; committee; day; days; death; enemy; english; friends; garden; general; good; hands; hansie; harmony; home; house; information; johannesburg; krause; leave; left; life; man; men; military; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; naudé; news; night; people; place; pretoria; secret; south; spies; thought; time; town; van; van warmelo; visit; warmelo; way; white; women; work; years; young; | | cache: 20194.txt plain text: 20194.txt item: #55 of 143 id: 20400 author: James, Lionel title: On the Heels of De Wet date: None words: 66185 flesch: 80 summary: If old man De Wet is to be at Strydenburg to-night, with Britstown as his objective, we should have had him here to-morrow morning. I could not resist camping in such a spot even if I had old man De Wet dead beat a furlong from home! keywords: aar; advance; boers; brigade; brigadier; british; britstown; cavalry; column; country; day; enemy; farm; force; general; going; good; guard; guide; half; hand; horse; information; intelligence officer; left; like; line; major; man; men; miles; mind; moment; morning; new; night; north; officer; orange; orders; place; plumer; pom; river; road; round; sir; south; squadron; staff; strydenburg; tiger; time; veldt; war; way; wet cache: 20400.txt plain text: 20400.txt item: #56 of 143 id: 20987 author: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) title: Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900 date: None words: 60244 flesch: 56 summary: Another interesting and far from improbable story was current at the time, that Joubert's retirement was due to peremptory orders from Pretoria, elicited by the progress of Methuen, the operations around Naauwport, and the increase of British force in that central region which French's movements, and those of Gatacre before Stormberg, seemed to indicate. [Footnote 4: Lessons of the War, p. 13.] NOTE.--The effective British force shut up in Ladysmith on November 2 was 13,496, besides which there were 249 sick {p.070} and wounded; total, 13,745. keywords: action; advance; army; attack; boers; brigade; british; buller; campaign; cape; conditions; country; day; east; enemy; fire; flank; force; french; general; ground; guns; hill; kimberley; ladysmith; left; line; men; miles; military; movement; natal; north; numbers; operations; position; railroad; right; river; sir; south; state; time; town; troops; war; west cache: 20987.txt plain text: 20987.txt item: #57 of 143 id: 21254 author: McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney) title: In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country date: None words: 87630 flesch: 78 summary: import and export tax, and in many other ways spend money which goes toward paying the expenses of government. In the early hours of morning, we stopped at Simba, the Place of Lions, where the station-master has many lion scares even now. keywords: africa; akeley; animal; black; camp; chapter; charge; colonel; country; course; danger; day; days; dog; drawing; east; elephant; feet; forest; game; good; grass; great; gunbearers; half; head; herd; hours; hunter; hunting; left; life; lion; little; man; men; miles; months; morning; mount; mountain; nairobi; native; new; night; number; party; people; photograph; place; plains; porters; rhino; river; roosevelt; safari; saw; shot; stephenson; tent; thought; time; trail; tree; wanderobo; way; white; yards; years cache: 21254.txt plain text: 21254.txt item: #58 of 143 id: 21280 author: Makins, George Henry title: Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre date: None words: 167324 flesch: 61 summary: It will be noted that my experience was almost entirely confined to bullet wounds, and in this respect it no doubt differs from that of surgeons employed in Natal, where shell injuries were more numerous. Lastly, with regard to suppuration, only a small proportion of the fractures, accompanied by the presence of large wounds, escaped infection. keywords: area; base; blood; bone; bullet; bullet wounds; calibre; cases; cavity; condition; course; days; degree; doubt; end; entry; exit; exit wound; fact; field; fig; form; fracture; fragments; general; hospital; hæmorrhage; illustration; impact; importance; inch; inches; injuries; injury; left; lesion; line; little; man; margin; mauser; mauser bullet; nature; nerve; number; pain; parts; patient; perforation; point; position; primary; pulse; result; right; signs; slight; symptoms; temperature; time; track; transverse; treatment; upper; velocity; vessels; weeks; wounded; wounds; | | cache: 21280.txt plain text: 21280.txt item: #59 of 143 id: 21391 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Great African Travellers: From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley date: None words: 142117 flesch: 70 summary: The doctor, after placing the treaty before the sultan, said that the English wished to enter into friendly relations with all the chiefs and great men of the earth, in order to establish commercial intercourse with them. Rumanika, like great men in other countries, had his private band. keywords: africa; animal; appearance; arabs; attack; baker; banks; black; camels; camp; canoe; captain; caravan; chief; clapperton; country; course; day; days; death; denham; desert; distance; doctor; east; england; english; expedition; feet; fever; food; great; hands; having; head; horse; inhabitants; journey; king; lake; left; length; livingstone; major; making; makololo; man; march; men; miles; morning; natives; niger; night; nile; number; park; party; people; place; poor; reach; return; river; round; set; sheikh; shore; slaves; speke; stanley; stream; sultan; time; town; travellers; trees; village; visit; water; way; white; women; young cache: 21391.txt plain text: 21391.txt item: #60 of 143 id: 21661 author: Lynch, George title: Impressions of a War Correspondent date: None words: 40983 flesch: 73 summary: Except a couple of old men, they were all in the prime of life, and a splendidly strong-looking set of fellows they were. Two o'clock in the morning wake to the tramp, tramp of men marching in the dark--marching out to fight--and the unknown Tommy you march beside and talk to in low voice, as men talk at that hour, is your comrade unto the day's end of fighting; when returning, to the sentries' challenge you answer A friend, and, dog-tired, you re-enter the lines, welcomed by his sesame call, Pass, friend; all is well. keywords: air; artillery; boer; cavalry; chinese; city; day; eyes; fighting; fire; general; good; ground; half; head; hill; horse; japanese; ladysmith; left; life; line; london; looking; man; men; new; outside; pekin; people; right; room; shell; sleep; street; things; think; time; town; waiting; war; water; way; white; women; work; world; years cache: 21661.txt plain text: 21661.txt item: #61 of 143 id: 21704 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Six Months at the Cape date: None words: 39890 flesch: 77 summary: They are powerful and savage fellows, said my friend, as he rose to inspan, and few men like to face them unless assisted by a party, and with good dogs. There is something very attractive to me in the bright, eager, childlike look of black men and women. keywords: africa; air; bird; black; brown; bush; cape; cart; course; day; days; feet; field; friend; good; ground; head; hobson; home; horse; johnny; kafirs; karroo; land; left; life; look; man; men; moment; morning; mountain; night; ostrich; party; place; plain; river; settlers; shot; south; time; way; work cache: 21704.txt plain text: 21704.txt item: #62 of 143 id: 22118 author: Delany, Martin Robison title: Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party date: None words: 41306 flesch: 56 summary: _Causes_ The density and rankness of the vegetable growth, the saturation of the air continually with fragrance, and other _miasma_, and the _malaria_ from the mangrove swamps, I assign as the cause of difference in the character of the same disease in different parts of the continent. To do this, we must occupy a position of entire _equality_, of _unrestricted_ rights, composing in fact, an acknowledged _necessary_ part of the _ruling element_ of society in which we live. keywords: abbeokuta; africa; aid; america; black; campbell; coast; convention; cotton; council; country; day; delany; entire; esq; fact; fever; following; gentlemen; good; great; lagos; liberia; man; means; meeting; men; missionary; native; new; parts; people; persons; place; president; race; rev; slave; slavery; society; states; time; trade; united; west; white; work cache: 22118.txt plain text: 22118.txt item: #63 of 143 id: 22323 author: Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount title: Impressions of South Africa date: None words: 176217 flesch: 59 summary: I had not travelled with the view of writing a book; but the interest which the events just mentioned have aroused, and which is likely to be sustained for a good while to come, leads me to believe that the impressions of a traveller who has visited other new countries may be useful to those who desire to know what South Africa is really like, and why it makes a noise and stir in the world disproportionate to its small population. There are, of course, rough and ill-omened explorers and settlers in South Africa, as in other new countries: but having wandered a good deal, in different countries, on the outer edge of civilization, I was struck by the large proportion of well-mannered and well-educated men whom one came across in this tropical wilderness. keywords: african; america; article; bay; boers; britain; british; british south; cape; cape colony; cape town; cattle; century; chapter; chief; coast; colonial; colonies; colony; company; convention; country; course; day; dry; dutch; east; eastern; english; european; fact; feet; footnote; force; free; general; gold; good; government; great; ground; half; high; hills; history; interior; kafirs; labour; land; life; line; little; man; mashonaland; miles; mining; mountains; natal; native; new; north; number; orange; parts; people; place; point; population; portuguese; power; present; president; race; railway; region; republic; river; sea; south africa; state; territories; territory; time; town; transvaal; trees; tribes; war; water; way; west; white; work; world; years; zambesi; | | cache: 22323.txt plain text: 22323.txt item: #64 of 143 id: 22799 author: Baikie, James title: Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt date: None words: 27366 flesch: 78 summary: Egypt, in fact, is a land of great temples and great tombs. Not far from Memphis, three great pyramid-shaped masses of stone rise up on the river-bank, looking almost like mountains; and the pilot tells us that these are the tombs of some of the great Kings of long past days, and that all around them lie smaller pyramids and other tombs of Kings and great men. keywords: book; country; day; days; egypt; egyptian; god; house; king; land; life; man; men; people; pharaoh; plate; prince; river; round; story; temple; thee; thou; time; world; years cache: 22799.txt plain text: 22799.txt item: #65 of 143 id: 23638 author: Scully, W. C. (William Charles) title: Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer date: None words: 63182 flesch: 78 summary: CHAPTER VII Extended rambles--View from the mountain top--An unknown land--The deadly fever--Gray's fate--Lack of nursing--Temperature rises after death Pilgrim's Rest in early days--The prison--The stocks--No color line--John Cameron in trouble--The creek lead--Plenty of gold--Wild peaches Massacres of natives in old days--Kameel--His expressions--Life on the creek--Major Macdonald--The parson--Boulders--Bad accidents--A quaint signboard--Reefing Charlie. CHAPTER VII Extended rambles--View from the mountain top--An unknown land--The deadly fever--Gray's fate--Lack of nursing--Temperature rises after death Pilgrim's Rest in early days--The prison--The stocks--No color line--John Cameron in trouble--The creek lead--Plenty of gold--Wild peaches Massacres of natives in old days--Kameel--His expressions--Life on the creek--Major Macdonald--The parson--Boulders--Bad accidents--A quaint signboard--Reefing Charlie. keywords: afternoon; camp; case; claim; close; country; course; creek; day; days; diamond; end; face; fact; father; feet; fire; friends; game; gold; good; ground; half; hand; king; lay; left; life; lion; little; man; matter; men; miles; months; morning; mountain; near; night; occasion; people; pilgrim; place; poor; rest; rhodes; river; road; saw; south; spot; tent; think; time; town; valley; vicinity; wagon; water; way; william; work; yards; years cache: 23638.txt plain text: 23638.txt item: #66 of 143 id: 23692 author: Creswicke, Louis title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 date: None words: 92285 flesch: 63 summary: The promise of the future was a general holocaust, in which Boer men, women, and children, farms and flocks would be annihilated. British Government put a stop to Boer raids into Zululand, and confined them to a territory of nearly 3000 square miles; to be known as the New Republic. keywords: action; affairs; african; annexation; article; boers; british; camp; cape; captain; chief; colonel; colony; column; commissioner; convention; country; day; dutch; enemy; fire; following; force; general; good; government; half; high; jameson; johannesburg; kruger; land; left; long; lord; majesty; major; man; march; miles; military; natal; natives; new; order; party; people; persons; place; policy; position; president; pretoria; prince; republic; right; river; road; sir; south; south africa; state; subject; territory; time; transvaal; troops; uitlanders; war; way; white; wounded; years; zulus; | | cache: 23692.txt plain text: 23692.txt item: #67 of 143 id: 2519 author: Livingstone, David title: A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 date: None words: 137137 flesch: 69 summary: He brought us a present of food and drink, because, as he, with the innate politeness of an African, said, he did not wish us to sleep hungry: he had heard of the Doctor when he passed down, and had a great desire to see and converse with him; but he was a child then, and could not speak in the presence of great men. Some of them, however, eloped with other men; the wife of Mantlanyane, for instance, ran off and left his little boy among strangers. keywords: africa; bank; batoka; bishop; black; boat; canoes; chief; cloth; country; course; day; days; dead; deep; degrees; distance; east; end; english; falls; feet; fever; fine; fish; food; good; grass; half; having; head; high; hills; island; lake; land; left; livingstone; long; low; makololo; man; manganja; meat; men; miles; morning; natives; near; new; night; north; number; nyassa; party; people; place; portuguese; present; return; river; rocks; round; saw; sea; sekeletu; ship; shire; slave; south; stream; tette; time; trade; trees; valley; village; water; way; west; white; women; work; yards; year; young; zambesi cache: 2519.txt plain text: 2519.txt item: #68 of 143 id: 26198 author: Creswicke, Louis title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 date: None words: 97402 flesch: 67 summary: We had fought gloriously, sometimes successfully; great men and brave had written their names in blood on the roll of heroes and had passed away, but nothing decisive had been done. We I daresay, have a lot of severe fighting before us, and it is a great gratification to me to know I have the help of such men as I see before me. keywords: 1st; 2nd; action; adjutant; advance; army; artillery; attack; battalion; battery; battle; boers; brigade; british; bullets; camp; cape; captain; colenso; colonel; column; commanding; corps; day; dead; east; enemy; field; fire; firing; following; force; fusiliers; gallant; general; guards; guns; half; highlanders; hill; horse; hours; illustration; infantry; kimberley; kopje; ladysmith; left; lieutenant; light; line; long; lord; major; man; men; methuen; miles; natal; north; officers; order; party; place; position; railway; regiment; rifles; river; round; royal; service; shells; shot; sir; south; staff; state; time; town; train; troops; war; way; west; white; work; yards cache: 26198.txt plain text: 26198.txt item: #69 of 143 id: 26490 author: Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil) title: Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 date: None words: 167627 flesch: 54 summary: Apart from the pre-eminence with which the period of Lord Milner's administration is invested by the occurrence within it of a military conflict of unparalleled magnitude, Lord Milner stands out in the annals of South Africa as the first High Commissioner whose knowledge of South African conditions was allowed to inspire the policy of the Home Government, and who himself was recognised by the Government and people of Great Britain as voicing the convictions and aspirations of all loyal subjects of the Crown in that province of the empire. The state of affairs with which Lord Milner was called upon to deal was in its essence the situation sketched by Frere twenty years before in the memorable forecast to which reference has been made. keywords: action; administration; african; afrikander; army; bloemfontein; boer; bond; british; british south; burghers; cape; cape colony; cape government; chamberlain; chief; colonial; colonies; colony government; commissioner; conference; country; course; day; despatch; dutch; effect; england; english; fact; footnote; force; franchise; general; government; hofmeyr; home government; june; krã¼ger; law; leaders; lord kitchener; lord milner; lord roberts; majesty; man; military; ministry; months; natal; new; opinion; orange; party; peace; people; point; policy; population; position; power; president; pretoria; question; republic; river; schreiner; settlement; sidenote; sir; situation; south africa; state; surrender; terms; time; transvaal; troops; view; war; work; years cache: 26490.txt plain text: 26490.txt item: #70 of 143 id: 27529 author: Velden, D. E. van title: The peace negotiations between the governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the representatives of the British government, which terminated in the peace concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902 date: None words: 74010 flesch: 71 summary: General Lord KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM, _Commanding-in-Chief_, and His Excellency Lord MILNER, _High Commissioner_, on behalf of the BRITISH GOVERNMENT, and Messrs. S. W. BURGER, F. W. REITZ, Louis BOTHA, J. H. DE LA REY, L. J. MEYER, and J. C. KROGH, acting as the GOVERNMENT of the SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC, and Messrs. M. T. STEYN, W. J. C. BREBNER, C. R. DE WET, J. B. M. HERTZOG, and C. OLIVIER, acting as the GOVERNMENT of the ORANGE FREE STATE on behalf of their respective BURGHERS, desirous to terminate the present hostilities, agree on the following Articles:-- 1. Commandant General_. keywords: botha; british; burghers; commandant; country; delegates; enemy; general; general j.; government; honour; independence; lord; lord kitchener; lord milner; matter; meeting; opinion; peace; people; president; proposal; question; south; state; struggle; time; war; wish cache: 27529.txt plain text: 27529.txt item: #71 of 143 id: 27765 author: Ross, P. T. title: A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition date: None words: 68006 flesch: 79 summary: I say, just hear what my young sister says, or my kiddie brother, or some such being, then an uninteresting (to other men) extract would follow. That day several men were killed and wounded, but none of our crowd, though one got a bullet in his rear pack, another had his bandolier struck, and another his hand grazed. keywords: army; boers; camp; captain; come; course; day; days; dozen; enemy; evening; fellows; field; fire; friend; general; going; good; guns; half; having; home; horses; hospital; khaki; kopje; left; life; lines; major; man; march; men; miles; monday; morning; near; nek; new; night; officer; old; order; place; poor; pretoria; rain; round; sergeant; sir; squadron; sunday; sussex; tent; thing; time; town; veldt; waggons; war; water; way; wet; yeomanry; yesterday cache: 27765.txt plain text: 27765.txt item: #72 of 143 id: 28016 author: Savory, Isabel title: In the Tail of the Peacock date: None words: 101901 flesch: 72 summary: We were up early, spent little time over dressing in a stiff breeze, and turned out to look at the weather. The surface is seen next morning covered with little white globes like tiny puff-balls, the size of a bird-cherry, or spilled globes of some large grain. keywords: basha; black; blue; brown; city; country; course; dark; day; days; donkey; door; end; european; eyes; face; feet; fez; garden; gate; good; government; green; half; hand; head; hills; home; house; illustration; inside; land; lay; left; life; man; market; marrakesh; means; men; miss; mogador; mohammed; money; moorish; moors; morning; morocco; mountains; mules; night; open; outside; people; place; point; rain; red; road; room; round; s`lam; sea; sitting; sultan; sun; tahara; tangier; tea; tetuan; time; trees; walls; water; way; white; wind; women; work; years; yellow cache: 28016.txt plain text: 28016.txt item: #73 of 143 id: 28158 author: Great Britain. War Office title: History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government date: None words: 198906 flesch: 68 summary: 60| --| --|_Tintagel |Southampton|17.12.99|Cape Town | 8.1.00 Corps, No. 10 | | | | Castle_ | | | | company | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Army Service| 2| 60| --| --|_Sumatra_ | | With units.| Remounts.| | | +------------+----------+-------------------+----------+ | 20,251 | 450,223 | 149,648 | 620,122 | +------------+----------+-------------------+----------+] keywords: a.m.; attack; australian |; battalion; bearer |; boer; brigade |; british; cape |; column |; companies; company |; devonshire |; dublin |; east |; eastern| |; enemy; engineers |; field |; fire; footnote; force; general; guards |; highlanders |; hill; hospital |; infantry |; irish |; lancashire |; lancaster |; lancers |; left; light |; line; lord; major; natal; north; railway; regiment |; rifles |; river; scots |; service| |; sidenote; sir; south |; staff |; strength |; time; town |; troops; units; war; welsh |; west |; | +; | 1.1.00|cape; | 10th; | 14th; | 19th; | 1st; | 2nd; | 6.1.00|pt; | 6th; | 6|; | 7.11.99|; | a.; | albert; | ammunition; | argyll; | army; | artillery; | battery; | borderers; | castle; | cavalry; | corps; | date; | disembarkation; | division; | dock; | elizabeth|; | embarkation; | fusiliers; | grange; | guns; | horses; | king; | london; | mobilisation; | officers; | place; | port; | rome; | royal; | section; | ship; | squadron; | surrey; | victorian; | vienna; | wales; | |; | |-------; | |----------; | |------------; |--- |; |---- |; |------- |; |--------- |; |---------- |; |------------ |; |14.10.99 |; |16.11.99 |; |23.12.99 |; |bombay |; |liverpool | cache: 28158.txt plain text: 28158.txt item: #74 of 143 id: 30581 author: Windham, W. G. title: Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia date: None words: 23687 flesch: 70 summary: A Maltese, who slept in the other berth near me, sneezed nine times in as many minutes; and, after each sternutation, he went through a short formula of prayer, beginning 'Santo Something,' to keep the devil to leeward, I suppose; and, egad, I think he must have been on board _in propriâ personâ_, under some disguise, to have caused us so bad a passage. In medias res._ keywords: algeria; algiers; angelo; arabs; bey; board; bona; breakfast; caravanserai; chapter; country; day; days; dinner; english; french; great; horse; hôtel; lake; lion; man; miles; morning; night; place; return; river; ruins; sea; shooting; time; tunis; way cache: 30581.txt plain text: 30581.txt item: #75 of 143 id: 3233 author: Baker, Samuel White, Sir title: In the Heart of Africa date: None words: 90420 flesch: 71 summary: Mahomet, who was a great man, suffered from the same complaint to which great men are (in those countries) particularly subject. No. 3, a man deformed from his birth, who wishes to become straight as other men. keywords: abou; aggageers; animals; arabs; arrival; camels; camp; close; country; course; day; days; dead; distance; elephant; feet; fire; forward; gondokoro; good; ground; half; hand; having; head; horse; ibrahim; jungle; kamrasi; khartoum; lake; lay; left; length; like; little; mahomet; man; march; men; miles; moment; morning; natives; night; nile; party; people; place; return; river; shot; speke; spot; time; water; white; wife; yards cache: 3233.txt plain text: 3233.txt item: #76 of 143 id: 32720 author: Anonymous title: What We Saw in Egypt date: None words: 20338 flesch: 87 summary: Some of these are so small that they are hardly more than large stones; some are rocks of considerable size; others are larger, islands of rock and sand. We can pray every day for the Egyptian children, that God will give them hearts to serve him, and to love our precious Saviour Jesus Christ, who came to save little children as well as grown-up people. keywords: cairo; children; city; day; desert; egyptian; feet; hugh; illustration; left; lucy; men; mohammed; morning; mosque; nile; people; pyramid; room; roper; round; sand; temple; time cache: 32720.txt plain text: 32720.txt item: #77 of 143 id: 3284 author: Speke, John Hanning title: The Discovery of the Source of the Nile date: None words: 211635 flesch: 64 summary: I explained our difficulties as those of great men in misfortune; and, after listening to our tale, he said he would tell Suwarora of the way we had been plundered, and impress upon him to deal lightly with us. It was not the custom of my country for great men to consort with servants, and until I saw him, and made friends, I should not be happy. keywords: arabs; arrival; bana; baraka; beads; boats; bombay; camp; chief; children; cloth; coast; coming; country; course; court; cows; day; days; food; gani; going; good; grant; grass; ground; guns; half; hands; head; high; hills; home; hut; ivory; journey; kamrasi; karague; king; lake; land; leave; left; like; long; look; man; manner; march; maula; men; morning; mtesa; musa; n'yanza; night; nile; number; officers; orders; pages; palace; party; pay; people; petherick; pombe; porters; present; property; queen; return; river; road; rumanika; saw; saying; set; shot; slaves; state; suwarora; taking; things; thought; time; uganda; unyoro; use; village; visit; waganda; wakungu; water; way; white; women; zanzibar cache: 3284.txt plain text: 3284.txt item: #78 of 143 id: 32875 author: Wingate, F. R. (Francis Reginald), Sir title: Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 date: None words: 158863 flesch: 67 summary: He called himself Mahdi Khalifat er Rasul (_i.e._ the successor of the Prophet), while his adherents called him Sayid (_i.e._ Master); Sayidna el Mahdi (_i.e._ our Master the Mahdi), or Sayidna el Imam (_i.e._ our Master the head, or one who goes in front). They swore by him in the words Hakk rabb el Mahdi (By the Mahdi's God) or Hakk Sayidna el Imam (By our Lord, the Imam); all solemn oaths and statements began with the words Aleik el Mahdi el Muntaser (By the Victorious Mahdi); his virtues were extolled in poems, and constant reference was made to his good looks, wisdom, stature and to his repeated victories over the Turks. keywords: abdullah; abu; ahmed; anga; arabs; arrival; baggara; beit el; berber; bey; bonomi; camels; camp; country; darfur; day; days; dead; death; dervishes; dollars; dongola; egypt; egyptian; el mahdi; el mal; el obeid; emirs; english; escape; fall; father; force; general; god; good; gordon; government; hands; head; hicks; house; hut; inhabitants; khalifa; khalifa abdullah; khartum; kordofan; left; letter; life; little; mahdi; market; men; mission; mohammed; money; near; news; night; nile; numbers; omdurman; osman; pasha; people; place; power; return; sheikh; sherif; slaves; soldiers; sudan; thought; time; town; tribe; troops; wad; wad el; water; way; white; women cache: 32875.txt plain text: 32875.txt item: #79 of 143 id: 32908 author: Walmsley, Hugh Mulleneux title: The Ruined Cities of Zululand date: None words: 113520 flesch: 79 summary: But white men are with us, white men who are not traders. These houses must have once been the dwellings of the white man, and the legends our fathers have taught tell us of such white men, who came many thousand years since from the regions of the rising sun, landing on these shores. keywords: air; arm; away; black; blood; brig; cabin; captain; captain hughes; chief; crew; day; dead; death; deck; eyes; face; fire; gold; good; half; hand; head; heavy; hughes; isabel; land; lay; left; life; long; look; looking; luji; man; masheesh; mate; men; missionary; moment; morning; near; night; ocean; party; plain; quarter; rifle; river; round; sail; sea; ship; sir; soldier; time; trees; umhleswa; water; weber; white; wind; wyzinski; yonder cache: 32908.txt plain text: 32908.txt item: #80 of 143 id: 32913 author: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton) title: Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal date: None words: 34748 flesch: 65 summary: The treatment of natives by the Rhodesian Government was, according to the general opinion of Cape people, more liberal than they deserved, and such as any white colonist of no matter what country would approve. That is the way a farmer makes his money in such countries. keywords: africa; boers; british; bulawayo; cape; colony; company; country; district; england; english; feet; gold; government; johannesburg; kruger; land; man; miles; new; north; people; place; population; pounds; president; railway; reef; republic; rhodesia; south; south africa; state; time; town; transvaal; view; water; white; years cache: 32913.txt plain text: 32913.txt item: #81 of 143 id: 32995 author: Jackson, Louis title: Our Caughnawagas in Egypt a narrative of what was seen and accomplished by the contingent of North American Indian voyageurs who led the British boat Expedition for the Relief of Khartoum up the Cataracts of the Nile. date: None words: 9737 flesch: 77 summary: They build houses with it as well as boats and it is this mud which manures and fertilizes the whole land of Egypt. A track runs from the depot straight down to the river and there were a number of flat cars loaded with boats, of which I took a nearer look, I also saw oars and poles. keywords: boats; cataract; channel; day; feet; men; miles; mud; nile; place; river; saw; time; water cache: 32995.txt plain text: 32995.txt item: #82 of 143 id: 34245 author: Fenn, George Manville title: The Khedive's Country date: None words: 36795 flesch: 60 summary: An average crop on good land may produce 1,890 pounds of raw cotton, which on being ginned will yield 600 pounds of fibre. The third, a reddish wheat, has recently been introduced from India, and gives good crops. keywords: = =; acre; cattle; clover; cotton; country; course; crop; cultivation; days; delta; egypt; egyptian; england; farm; fruit; grain; growth; irrigation; land; native; nile; pounds; raising; seed; shillings; soil; straw; supply; time; trees; value; water; way; work; years cache: 34245.txt plain text: 34245.txt item: #83 of 143 id: 34548 author: Buchan, John title: The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction date: None words: 124496 flesch: 65 summary: An instant industrial demand is apt to blind many good men for the moment to those wider truths, which on other occasions they are ready enough to assent to. She has enough and to spare of good men who desire nothing more than that the African nation, when it comes, should be a British people, and if she is trusted whole-heartedly, she will not betray the trust. keywords: african; basis; boer; british; bush; cape; case; chief; class; colonial; colonies; colony; common; conditions; country; crown; day; development; districts; dutch; east; empire; end; english; far; farm; federation; force; form; free; future; game; general; gold; good; government; green; half; hills; history; home; hunting; imperial; industry; interest; kaffir; kind; labour; land; law; life; line; living; man; matter; miles; mind; mining; mountains; native; new; north; orange; party; people; place; policy; population; portuguese; power; present; problem; question; race; railway; reason; revenue; river; road; self; sense; settlement; south; south africa; state; stock; stream; subject; system; tax; things; time; transvaal; veld; view; war; water; way; white; work; world; years cache: 34548.txt plain text: 34548.txt item: #84 of 143 id: 35061 author: Du Moulin, Louis Eugène title: Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa date: None words: 110184 flesch: 66 summary: To his astonishment several other men rose and put up their hands, and he discovered that he had inadvertently held up an entire Boer picket. Wondering at this, reluctantly we complied, and the enemy quickly dwindled away; we had serious thoughts of following them rapidly, but, seeing how few men of ours were actually on the spot, and in view of the possibility that the Boers would hold the rocky patch on the summit, we decided against it, and proceeded to overhaul the rocks on our right, which but a short time before had been teeming with riflemen. keywords: advance; battalion; battery; boers; brigade; camp; captain; colonel; column; companies; company; convoy; country; day; days; direction; distance; drift; enemy; farm; field; fire; firing; general; good; guard; guns; half; hill; horses; infantry; kopje; left; lieut; line; long; major; man; march; men; miles; morning; moulin; north; number; o'clock; officers; orders; place; pom; position; railway; rear; regiment; ridge; right; river; road; round; south; station; sussex; time; town; train; troops; wagons; water; way; work; wounded; yards cache: 35061.txt plain text: 35061.txt item: #85 of 143 id: 35245 author: Badlam, Anna B. title: The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa date: None words: 139913 flesch: 76 summary: Elephants haunt the lonely pools, where they seek to quench their thirst. Ostriches, zebras, deer, springboks, and many other animals, the names of which we do not find in any zoölogy, make their home here. Geologists are of the opinion that by boring deep enough in almost any section of this semi-desert territory of South Africa water might be found. keywords: africa; animals; appearance; banks; bird; black; body; cape; cattle; chapter; chief; city; climate; coast; colony; congo; country; course; day; days; desert; distance; dry; east; egypt; english; extent; falls; feet; find; food; form; free; gold; good; great; ground; hair; half; head; high; hills; home; houses; interior; lake; land; length; level; life; line; little; livingstone; man; means; men; miles; mountains; natives; nature; near; nile; north; northern; orange; ostrich; people; place; plains; point; portion; present; rain; red; region; river; sand; sea; season; sections; soil; south; south africa; species; stanley; state; stream; table; time; town; trees; tribes; water; way; west; white; wild; women; work; world; years; young; zambesi cache: 35245.txt plain text: 35245.txt item: #86 of 143 id: 35308 author: Ward, Mrs. title: The Cape and the Kaffirs: A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland date: None words: 100266 flesch: 64 summary: He was told, in reply, that the information had been received from certain Kaffir prisoners, whose names, however, were unknown; whereupon his councillors answered, You, Colonel Johnstone (27th), and the Governor, and Somerset, and Stockenstrom, and Kreli, are great men, and are you going to settle an important national question, upon the report of prisoners of whom you know nothing? The Kaffirs lingered about the camp, talking in groups, and finally dropping into the semicircle, in front of which, as before, the Chiefs and great men stood. keywords: 7th; 91st; africa; bay; british; bush; camp; cape; captain; cattle; chief; children; colonel; colonel somerset; colony; corps; country; day; days; district; division; enemy; england; fingoes; fire; force; fort; general; good; government; governor; graham; hare; harry; having; head; hill; horses; kaffirland; kaffirs; kei; land; left; lieutenant; man; march; men; miles; morning; night; note; number; officers; party; pato; peddie; people; place; regiment; river; sandilla; sir; somerset; time; town; troops; waggons; war; way; years; young cache: 35308.txt plain text: 35308.txt item: #87 of 143 id: 35369 author: Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir title: The Highlands of Ethiopia date: None words: 294267 flesch: 53 summary: On the other hand, _fas est et ab hoste doceri_. His only rule is that of _hysteron proteron_, or putting the cart before the horse. keywords: abyssinia; adaiel; adjacent; ali; amhara; ankober; appearance; arms; army; arrival; ayto; band; black; blood; blue; body; british; camels; camp; capital; caravan; cattle; chapter; chief; children; christian; church; close; cloth; coast; cold; cotton; country; course; court; crown; danakil; dark; day; days; death; deep; despot; difficulty; distance; earth; efat; embassy; emperor; entire; escort; ethiopia; european; evil; eye; eyes; face; fact; faith; father; feet; field; fire; foot; form; frontier; galla; general; god; good; government; governor; great; green; ground; hair; half; hand; having; hawash; head; heart; heavy; height; high; hill; holy; host; hot; hours; house; human; influence; inhabitants; journey; king; kingdom; lake; land; lay; left; length; life; little; lost; low; majesty; man; march; master; means; men; miles; mohammad; moment; monarch; morning; mountain; nation; nature; night; number; object; old; order; party; people; period; person; place; plain; point; population; portion; position; power; presence; present; priest; principal; property; public; queen; rain; range; ras; red; religion; return; river; road; rose; royal; sahela; saint; salt; savage; scene; sea; season; selassie; set; shoa; silver; slaves; soil; south; spear; species; spot; state; subject; succession; sun; supply; tajura; tent; throne; time; town; trees; tribes; valley; voice; volume; war; warrior; water; way; white; wild; wood; work; world; years cache: 35369.txt plain text: 35369.txt item: #88 of 143 id: 36324 author: Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni) title: Lost in the Jungle; Narrated for Young People date: None words: 69033 flesch: 87 summary: We had in company many great men. At other times we would see a snake running away before us, or we would meet a strange insect or a queer butterfly. keywords: body; chapter; country; day; eyes; face; feet; forest; friend; good; gorilla; ground; gun; head; jungle; kill; king; land; left; leopard; look; looking; man; men; morning; night; olenda; people; querlaouen; remandji; river; spider; spirit; thought; time; trees; village; water; white; wild cache: 36324.txt plain text: 36324.txt item: #89 of 143 id: 36422 author: Scully, W. C. (William Charles) title: Lodges in the Wilderness date: None words: 48295 flesch: 77 summary: Dune, desert and star,--past, present and future--what were they? Saint Lawrence no doubt ascended to Paradise from his gridiron, but I should have to toil on foot over miles of desert after arising from mine. keywords: air; andries; black; bushmanland; camp; course; day; deep; desert; distance; dune; eyes; feet; fire; great; half; hand; head; heat; hendrick; herd; horses; jackal; lay; left; life; like; little; long; man; men; miles; morning; night; north; oryx; plains; rain; river; sand; shot; south; springbuck; sun; time; tract; wagon; water; wind; yards cache: 36422.txt plain text: 36422.txt item: #90 of 143 id: 36866 author: Creswicke, Louis title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 8) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 date: None words: 97258 flesch: 66 summary: Here was this gallant officer, whose life had been devoted to the service of his country, and who was at an age when many other men would have elected to stay by hearth and home, suddenly called on to act in the most difficult and trying crisis. Among the ranks of the Colonials are many men of wealth and influence, men of high character and good education. keywords: 1st; 2nd; action; advance; africa; army; artillery; attack; battalion; boers; brigade; british; buller; camp; canadian; cape; captain; cavalry; charles; co.; colonel; command; commanding; company; contingent; corps; country; day; drift; dutchmen; enemy; field; fire; following; force; free; french; gallant; general; good; government; great; guns; half; hill; horse; hours; illustration; imperial; infantry; january; kop; ladysmith; left; lieutenant; life; lord; mafeking; major; man; men; miles; military; morning; natal; new; night; north; officers; order; place; position; regiment; rifles; river; roberts; royal; second; service; shells; sir; south; spion; staff; state; time; town; troops; volunteers; war; warren; way; west; work; wounded; | | cache: 36866.txt plain text: 36866.txt item: #91 of 143 id: 37083 author: Kestell, J. D. (John Daniel) title: Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet date: None words: 101103 flesch: 74 summary: When General de Wet passed through Slabbert's Nek, the following arrangement was decided on: General de Wet was to proceed on the 15th to Heilbron, and General Roux the day after to the south of the State. Now, as Olivier, Hasebroek, and others had decided to go to the President and General de Wet in order to be reorganised, I decided to go too. keywords: boers; botha; british; burghers; commandant; commando; day; days; de wet; enemy; english; evening; farm; field; fire; following; force; general; general de; government; guns; harrismith; hill; horses; house; kitchener; kop; laager; lay; left; lord; meeting; men; morning; night; number; o'clock; officers; order; people; place; positions; president; river; south; state; steyn; thought; time; town; transvaal; waggons; war; way; west; wet; women cache: 37083.txt plain text: 37083.txt item: #92 of 143 id: 37264 author: Sheldon, Louise Vescelius title: Yankee Girls in Zulu Land date: None words: 41337 flesch: 71 summary: We found, before we had been many days on the road, that our cowhide boots could brave anything, and were infinitely better for what we wanted than a stylish, neatly fitting shoe. The report was then easily credited, and every available measure was taken for the protection of the inhabitants and to prevent surprise, the local volunteer corps being under arms for several days. keywords: africa; air; boys; cape; chapter; coach; colony; country; day; days; diamond; dutch; english; feet; fields; good; half; home; horses; hotel; house; kafir; land; life; london; man; men; miles; morning; mountain; night; people; place; river; road; sea; south; state; time; town; trees; wagon; water; way; white; work; years cache: 37264.txt plain text: 37264.txt item: #93 of 143 id: 37712 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The Crime of the Congo date: None words: 52204 flesch: 71 summary: The Congo State was founded by the Belgian King, and exploited by Belgian capital, Belgian soldiers and Belgian concessionnaires. Consider also that every official of the Congo State is sworn neither at the time nor _afterward_ to reveal any matter that may have come to his knowledge. keywords: a.b.i.r; agent; belgian; belgium; british; case; chief; children; commission; company; congo; congo state; country; cut; days; district; europe; evidence; free; general; government; hands; king; land; leopold; little; man; matter; men; natives; people; report; right; river; rubber; soldiers; state; system; time; trade; village; way; women; work; years cache: 37712.txt plain text: 37712.txt item: #94 of 143 id: 38389 author: Headley, Joel Tyler title: Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent date: None words: 114766 flesch: 71 summary: At last Stanley said: Now, my dear doctor, the best friends must part, you have come far enough, let me beg of you to turn back. We venture to say that Mr. Stanley enjoyed that unobtrusive meal in that quiet Welsh valley more than he has ever enjoyed a banquet with nobles and princes; and as the shadows of life lengthen he will look back on it with more real pleasure. keywords: africa; arabs; boat; camp; canoes; caravan; chapter; chief; cloth; coast; congo; country; course; day; days; dead; death; distance; emin; expedition; falls; feet; food; force; forest; good; half; heart; hours; island; king; lake; land; left; life; livingstone; man; march; men; miles; morning; natives; new; night; nyanza; people; place; pocoke; point; reach; return; river; savages; sea; set; shore; soldiers; stanley; stream; time; tipo; tribes; village; war; water; way; white; wild; women; work; world; years; young; zanzibar cache: 38389.txt plain text: 38389.txt item: #95 of 143 id: 38447 author: O'Neil, Owen Rowe title: Adventures in Swaziland: The Story of a South African Boer date: None words: 100874 flesch: 84 summary: It was a wonderful day, and as we rode across the veldt into Swaziland Tuys told me the whole story of how he became known as The White King of Swaziland. Mzaan Bakoor, little white induna, he said in the same rumbling melodious bass so common among the Swazis, I am Lomwazi, brother of the king and son of Queen Labotsibeni. keywords: boers; british; buno; camp; chief; day; days; death; doctor; father; gin; going; good; head; impi; indunas; king; kraal; l'tunga; labotsibeni; lebombo; life; lochien; lomwazi; man; men; moment; morning; mother; night; number; oom tuys; people; place; queen; royal; saw; sebuza; sibijaan; sugden; swaziland; swazis; thought; time; tuys; tzaneen; warriors; way; white; witch; women; word; zombode cache: 38447.txt plain text: 38447.txt item: #96 of 143 id: 38768 author: Creswicke, Louis title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 4 (of 8) From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree date: None words: 101401 flesch: 66 summary: [please insert here one my night-before-battle scenes No. 4] but I could not help feeling Army doing wrong sleep knew enemy front determined myself go forward find out position enemy passed outlying picket told officer keep good look out as knew enemy front officer answer and actually wished prevent me passing picket but when told him my name allowed pass sun now rising glorious [insert sunrise scene No. 2] moved cautiously forward saw near distance kopje approached near suddenly whole kopje burst forth into flame of flashes bullets whizzed past Boer position taken. keywords: 1st; 2nd; advance; africa; army; artillery; attack; away; bloemfontein; boers; brigade; british; camp; cape; captain; cavalry; chief; colonel; country; cronje; day; days; division; drift; dutchmen; east; end; enemy; february; field; fighting; fire; firing; following; force; french; gallant; general; good; government; guns; having; hill; horse; illustration; infantry; kimberley; kopjes; laager; ladysmith; left; lieutenant; line; long; lord; mafeking; major; man; march; men; miles; military; morning; new; night; north; officers; order; page; people; place; position; regiment; relief; river; roberts; round; royal; second; shell; sir; small; south; staff; state; time; town; trenches; troops; waggons; war; way; west; work; wounded; yards cache: 38768.txt plain text: 38768.txt item: #97 of 143 id: 38870 author: Kingsley, Mary Henrietta title: West African studies date: None words: 204544 flesch: 62 summary: I do not say the system is unjust or anything like that, mind; I merely say that it does not tend to the production of a series of great men in one family. The two latter have been the chief reason for the Teutonic nations, England and Germany, overrunning the lands of other men. keywords: account; affairs; african; away; benin; black; bonny; boys; brass; bush; calabar; canoe; cape; captain; case; chief; colonies; colony; come; company; country; course; crown; customs; day; days; death; district; doctor; doubt; end; england; english; european; face; fact; family; fetish; fine; fish; form; france; french; general; god; going; gold; gold coast; good; government; great; half; hands; having; head; home; house; human; idea; king; knowledge; late; law; left; leone; life; line; long; man; matter; means; men; mind; native; nature; negro; new; niger; oil; palm; people; place; point; portuguese; position; power; present; property; reason; red; region; religion; return; right; river; round; school; sea; set; ship; sierra; slave; sort; soul; south; spirits; state; system; thing; thought; time; town; trade; traders; trading; village; want; war; water; way; west africa; west coast; white; witch; women; work; world; years cache: 38870.txt plain text: 38870.txt item: #98 of 143 id: 39042 author: Wharton, Edith title: In Morocco date: None words: 52666 flesch: 61 summary: Everywhere behind the bristling walls and rock-clamped towers of old Morocco lurks the shadowy spirit of instability. It is hard to guess the age of some of the featureless houses propping each other's flanks in old Fez or old Salé; but people rich enough to rebuild have always done so, and the passion for building seems allied, in this country of inconsequences, to the supine indifference that lets existing constructions crumble back to clay. keywords: africa; arab; architecture; art; arts; atlas; black; blue; century; children; city; country; court; day; european; eyes; fez; france; french; gardens; general; green; harem; house; idriss; illustration; life; lyautey; man; market; maroc; marrakech; meknez; moroccan; morocco; moslem; mosque; moulay; new; north; palaces; photograph; place; rabat; red; ruins; salé; south; spain; sultan; tangier; time; town; walls; war; way; white; women; years cache: 39042.txt plain text: 39042.txt item: #99 of 143 id: 39348 author: Hamilton, A. (Angus) title: The Siege of Mafeking (1900) date: None words: 93661 flesch: 60 summary: If the train from the south was loaded with war material, the trains from the two Republics were packed with fugitives, among whom were many men who, in the hour of necessity, will, it is to be hoped, consider flight as the least satisfactory means of procedure. We have had therefore, in a sense, many men who, while apparently loyal and engaged in manning the trenches, were yet under constant supervision, lest they should give way to their feelings and too openly proclaim their sympathies with the Boer cause; but there have been few desertions, and affairs in general between Englishman and Dutchman, between the civilian and military, have passed off with greater harmony than was altogether anticipated. keywords: africa; artillery; attack; baden; body; boers; british; camp; cape; captain; colonel; commandant; country; day; days; east; end; enemy; fact; field; fire; firing; force; fort; garrison; general; government; guns; hospital; hours; life; lines; mafeking; major; man; men; moment; morning; native; night; orange; order; outposts; people; place; point; police; position; powell; present; rifles; river; shell; siege; situation; south; stadt; state; time; town; transvaal; trenches; troops; veldt; war; way; western; work; wounded; yards cache: 39348.txt plain text: 39348.txt item: #100 of 143 id: 39615 author: Head, Francis Bond, Sir title: The Life and Adventures of Bruce, the African Traveller date: None words: 135748 flesch: 62 summary: A dead silence followed this laconic remark: at last Bruce offered his presents, and then took his leave, little pleased with his reception, and heartily rejoicing that the despatches which had been sent to Janni were now far beyond the power of the naybe. Lord Valentia proceeds to say, I think it clear, from the above observations, that Mr. Bruce represented himself in the first place as visiting an island called Gibel Zumrud, in lat. keywords: abyssinia; account; arabs; army; bey; bruce; cairo; camels; character; country; day; days; death; desert; english; fasil; father; feet; general; god; gondar; good; ground; half; hand; head; house; journey; king; leave; left; letters; life; lord; man; masuah; men; michael; miles; mind; moment; morning; mountains; naybe; night; nile; number; old; order; party; people; place; plain; power; present; ras; red; rest; return; river; salt; sea; sennaar; servants; set; sun; tent; thought; time; town; travels; trees; water; way; white; world; years; young cache: 39615.txt plain text: 39615.txt item: #101 of 143 id: 39881 author: Ralph, Julian title: War's Brighter Side The Story of The Friend Newspaper Edited by the Correspondents with Lord Roberts's Forces, March-April, 1900 date: None words: 109088 flesch: 75 summary: And here are other men again, taller and sturdier than infantry of the line, grim, solid men, as straight as poplars. The man with the pencil puts it in because other men with pencils have been putting it in for generations. keywords: africa; april; army; battle; bit; bloemfontein; boers; brigade; british; camp; cavalry; chief; colonel; command; correspondents; country; daily; day; days; editorial; editors; enemy; england; english; fact; field; fighting; fire; force; friend; general; good; government; gwynne; half; hand; home; horse; hours; infantry; kipling; landon; left; letter; life; line; little; lord; lord roberts; major; man; march; marshal; men; miles; military; miss; morning; new; newspaper; number; officer; open; orange; order; paper; people; place; poem; present; right; river; roberts; room; round; rudyard; set; sir; soldiers; south; staff; stanley; state; time; tommy; town; troops; use; veldt; war; way; white; work; world; wounded cache: 39881.txt plain text: 39881.txt item: #102 of 143 id: 39971 author: Browne, Abdullah title: Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day date: None words: 112285 flesch: 54 summary: But in our criticisms of this and other incidents in history we too often overlook the lapse of time and compare the Egyptians and other peoples of the past to that which we are at present, and not to that which we ourselves were at the same time. From highest to lowest, among the most fanatical as among the most lax and liberal, the Egyptian takes and adopts as his own whatever he finds good in the ways of other peoples. keywords: ali; army; beys; bonaparte; cairo; character; christians; civilisation; classes; condition; country; day; days; east; egypt; egyptians; england; english; european; evil; fact; force; french; general; good; government; great; history; influence; interests; islam; justice; life; lord; mahomed; mamaluks; man; means; men; moment; moslem; new; occupation; people; position; power; present; press; religion; said; self; sense; sultan; things; thought; time; town; troops; turkish; ulema; way; work; world; years cache: 39971.txt plain text: 39971.txt item: #103 of 143 id: 40205 author: Abbott, Jacob title: History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt date: None words: 60281 flesch: 64 summary: Cassius, though very sensitive, it seems, to the influence of omens affecting himself, was quite philosophical in his views in respect to those of other men. He accordingly intrenched his troops in the palaces and in the citadel, and in such other parts of the city as it seemed practicable to defend. keywords: alexandria; antony; army; battle; brutus; cause; character; city; cleopatra; command; country; course; cæsar; day; death; egypt; fact; great; husband; king; length; life; means; men; octavius; people; power; ptolemy; respect; roman; rome; sea; time; war; water; way; world; years cache: 40205.txt plain text: 40205.txt item: #104 of 143 id: 40830 author: Anderson, Andrew A. title: Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in South Africa: Sport and Travel in South Africa date: None words: 134551 flesch: 68 summary: There are several small rivers north of the Buzi to the mouth of the Zambese, that drain the coast-line, which is very flat and marshy. One direct from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, another direct to Kimberley, Worcester, Graham's Town, King William and Queen's Town, and many other parts. keywords: africa; banks; black; boers; boundary; bush; bushmen; cape; cattle; chief; close; coast; colony; country; day; days; degrees; desert; direction; distance; district; east; feet; fine; game; gold; good; grass; great; half; hills; kaffir; kind; king; kraal; left; length; level; lions; man; miles; minutes; morning; mountain; natal; natives; near; night; north; northern; open; orange; orange river; oxen; parts; passing; people; portion; present; region; river; road; round; sand; sea; shot; south; state; station; time; town; transvaal; trees; tribe; waggon; water; way; west; white; years; young; zambese cache: 40830.txt plain text: 40830.txt item: #105 of 143 id: 41017 author: Creswicke, Louis title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 5 (of 8) From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Roberts's Entry into Pretoria date: None words: 90967 flesch: 68 summary: Wounds received at Rensburg: Lieutenant-Colonel C. Cunningham, Lieutenant J. C. Roberts. Lieutenant H. C. Hall, Northumberland Fusiliers. _Wounded and Missing._--Captain P. D. Dray, Lieutenant and Quartermaster Hawkins. keywords: 1st; 2nd; action; advance; army; artillery; attack; battery; bloemfontein; boers; brigade; british; camp; captain; cavalry; colonel; column; day; days; division; dutchmen; east; enemy; field; fighting; fire; following; force; french; gallant; general; general hamilton; general ian; general j.; guards; guns; hamilton; hill; horse; hours; illustration; imperial; infantry; left; lieutenant; line; little; lord; mafeking; major; march; men; miles; morning; near; night; north; officer; operations; place; position; pretoria; prisoners; railway; relief; rifles; river; roberts; round; royal; rundle; second; sir; south; spruit; time; town; troops; war; way; west; work; yards; yeomanry cache: 41017.txt plain text: 41017.txt item: #106 of 143 id: 41035 author: Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von title: Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 date: None words: 233975 flesch: 64 summary: Abdullahi bin Sayd Mohammed, Khalifa el Mahdi, _W. Arab_, early history, 127, 514; proclaimed Khalifa, 281; appearance, 285; commands blue flag, 303; succeeds Mahdi, 370; coinage, 407; signs and commands, 409; tyranny, 429; seizes Nile boats, 431; Mahdi's Dome, 432; Dr. Wahrmund's letter, 447; brethren arrive, 449; writes to Queen, etc., 450; illness, 496; fortifies Atbara, 507; fiendish character, 516; harem, 520; postal service, 527; how he rides abroad, 528; reviews, 530; present army, etc., 535; frontiers, 537; treasuries, 538; timidity, 562; house at Omdurman, 567; his blackholes, 571. Abdullahi Dudbenga, Harun's cousin, _S._, 85, 211, 377. On first mounting the pulpit, he greets the multitude with the words, Salam Aleikum ya ashab el Mahdi! keywords: abdullahi; abu; ahmed; anga; arabs; army; arrival; attack; bahr; bey; brother; camels; camp; children; country; course; dara; darfur; day; days; death; districts; doubt; egyptian; el fasher; el mahdi; el obeid; emirs; enemy; evening; expedition; fasher; following; force; friends; garrison; general; god; good; gordon; government; governor; ground; hands; head; horses; house; inhabitants; instructions; journey; khaled; khalifa; khartum; kordofan; leave; left; letter; life; little; madibbo; mahdi; man; march; master; men; mohammed; money; morning; near; news; night; nile; number; obeid; officers; omdurman; orders; osman; pasha; people; place; poor; position; present; relatives; return; shakka; sheikh; slaves; state; sudan; suleiman; sultan; thought; time; town; tribes; troops; wad; wad el; water; way; women; words; years; zeki; zogal; zubeir cache: 41035.txt plain text: 41035.txt item: #107 of 143 id: 41069 author: Armistead, Wilson title: Calumny Refuted by Facts From Liberia With Extracts From the Inaugural Address of the Coloured President Roberts; an Eloquent Speech of Hilary Teage, a Coloured Senator; and Extracts From a Discourse by H. H. Garnett, a Fugitive Slave, on the Past and Present Condition, and Destiny of the Coloured Race. Presented to the Boston Anti-slavery Bazaar, U.S., By the Author of "A Tribute for the Negro." date: None words: 14824 flesch: 55 summary: The root of the jealousies and divisions among public men will, generally speaking, be found planted in the soil of selfishness and ambition: not in any real and sincere disagreement as to the proper measures for the public good. It is envy of place and emolument--it is ambition of power, that array public men in a hostile attitude, and range their infatuated followers under their opposing banners. keywords: children; circumstances; citizens; country; day; fellow; god; government; honour; human; liberia; liberty; men; nations; nature; negro; people; public; race; time; virtue; world cache: 41069.txt plain text: 41069.txt item: #108 of 143 id: 41373 author: Urabi, Ahmad title: Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events date: None words: 173795 flesch: 66 summary: As soon as the telegraph offices were open in the morning, 16th May, I sent the following message to Cairo: To Arabi Pasha, Minister of War. On my arrival I called on Arabi Pasha, Mahmud Sami and others who are of the party. keywords: account; affairs; alexandria; ali; answer; arabi; arabi pasha; army; believe; cairo; case; chamber; chief; colvin; come; constantinople; country; course; day; days; egypt; egyptian; england; english; european; foreign; french; friends; general; gladstone; good; government; granville; hands; help; house; intervention; ismaïl; june; khedive; know; law; left; letter; little; london; lord; mahmud; malet; man; matter; military; mind; minister; ministry; mohammed; moment; national; new; news; note; office; officers; official; opinion; order; party; pasha; people; personal; place; point; policy; position; power; present; public; question; riaz; sami; sherif; sheykh; sir; state; sultan; telegram; tewfik; things; thought; time; trial; war; way; work; world; years cache: 41373.txt plain text: 41373.txt item: #109 of 143 id: 41521 author: Hopkins, J. Castell (John Castell) title: South Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume I Comprising a History of South Africa and its people, including the war of 1899 and 1900 date: None words: 144794 flesch: 58 summary: Davies, Colonel-Sergeant R., R. C. R. Adam, S., R. C. A. Adams, W. G., 7th Fusiliers. Campbell, A., R. C. A. Chisholm, A., 90th Winnipeg Rifles. keywords: 5th; action; african; attack; battalion; boers; britain; british; british south; buller; c. a.; canada; canadian; cape; cape colony; cape town; cattle; character; chief; colonial; colony; commissioner; company; conditions; country; course; day; days; dutch; empire; enemy; england; english; fact; farmers; fire; force; fusiliers; general; george; gold; good; government; governor; guns; high; hill; history; illustration; imperial; influence; john; kaffir; kruger; ladysmith; large; life; little; london; lord; majesty; man; matter; military; natal; natives; new; number; office; orange; people; period; place; policy; population; position; power; president; question; r. c.; region; republic; result; rifles; right; river; roberts; royal; second; settlers; sidenote; sir; small; south; south africa; state; subjects; system; territory; time; town; transvaal; tribes; troops; war; way; white; work; world; years cache: 41521.txt plain text: 41521.txt item: #110 of 143 id: 41744 author: Royle, Charles title: The Egyptian campaigns, 1882 to 1885 date: None words: 237655 flesch: 66 summary: The men, weakened by prolonged exertion under a terrible sun, were forced to live for two or three days on biscuits and muddy water, flavoured only with the dead bodies of Egyptian men and horses. Beacon_, then decided to act, and I went on shore with a Proclamation to be delivered to the Acting Governor, informing him that the place had been occupied by British forces, which occupation was effected without opposition or resistance on the part of the native soldiers. keywords: 1st; 2nd; a.m.; admiral; advance; alexandria; arabi; army; artillery; attack; bank; battalion; battery; berber; brigade; british; cairo; camel; camp; canal; cavalry; colonel; column; command; country; day; days; dervishes; desert; despatch; dongola; egyptian; enemy; england; english; expedition; fighting; fire; firing; following; force; fort; french; general; gordon; government; graham; great; ground; guns; half; hand; infantry; khalifa; khartoum; khedive; left; line; lord; loss; mahdi; major; march; men; miles; military; moment; native; nile; north; number; officers; omdurman; order; osman; party; pasha; place; point; position; railway; rear; regiment; right; river; royal; ships; sir; sirdar; small; soldiers; souakim; soudan; soudanese; south; square; steamers; stewart; sultan; time; town; troops; war; water; way; wolseley; work; wounded; yards; zeriba cache: 41744.txt plain text: 41744.txt item: #111 of 143 id: 41976 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Mpuke, Our Little African Cousin date: None words: 16665 flesch: 87 summary: So, as we wish to see a little African cousin in his own African home, we are going to visit little black Mpuke instead of little black Topsy or Sammy, whom we might see nearer by. These queer little people were cutting down branches and making ready to build their huts. keywords: 12mo; black; boy; children; cloth; cousin=; day; good; home; men; mother; mpuke; people; place; spider; story; time; village; way; women; work cache: 41976.txt plain text: 41976.txt item: #112 of 143 id: 42228 author: Hamilton-Browne, G. title: Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion date: None words: 86579 flesch: 72 summary: Old men and women would crawl out of their huts, stragglers would hurry up to join the throng, until every man, woman and child belonging to the tribe would be rocking and wailing as if their very heart-strings had been wrung with woe by the most personal disaster. They had plenty of good men, both friendly natives and volunteers, with a sufficiency of Armed Constabulary (the Colonial Regulars) to give them backbone, but the officers (unfortunately) considered discretion to be the better part of valour and mistook timidity for prudence, so much so that they missed their chance and covered themselves with something like disgrace. keywords: bank; blood; bush; camp; case; chief; colonel; conway; country; course; cut; day; days; end; enemy; feet; fighting; fire; food; good; half; hand; hau; haus; head; hill; horse; island; kooti; lake; left; line; little; look; man; maori; men; miles; moment; morning; natives; new; night; number; open; pah; party; people; place; river; road; round; run; shot; soldiers; south; thought; time; tribe; use; war; water; way; white; women; yarn; years; zealand cache: 42228.txt plain text: 42228.txt item: #113 of 143 id: 42737 author: Hansard, Réné title: The Cape Peninsula: Pen and Colour Sketches date: None words: 27118 flesch: 73 summary: Wynberg hides its archives in overgrown gardens of oleander, wild-olive, blue plumbago hedges, cool white gardenias and red hibiscus flowers, cypress-trees and date-palms, brought from the East by retired soldiers from India, with large livers and small pensions, making their curries and their chutneys in the little thatched bungalows of old Wynberg. 'Roodebloem' comes into the list of old homesteads; and down in the swampy green fields of Observatory Road, where the clerk life of Cape Town has its two acres and a cow, and near the Royal Observatory, lived the Company's free miller; and the Liesbeek waters worked his mill. keywords: anne; barnard; bay; blue; cape; castle; commander; company; constantia; day; days; dutch; east; english; good; great; green; grey; head; hill; house; illustration; left; man; marinus; men; mountain; paradise; pink; red; river; road; round; saw; sea; shadow; story; table; town; trees; vaillant; van; water; way; white; wine; world; years cache: 42737.txt plain text: 42737.txt item: #114 of 143 id: 42956 author: Ashe, Waller title: The Story of the Zulu Campaign date: None words: 119948 flesch: 61 summary: There was also a considerable contingent of European Volunteers--more especially of mounted men, whose total reached close on 1000. Every man endeavoured to escape towards the Buffalo river, but this was almost an impossibility even for mounted men. keywords: advance; army; attack; body; buller; bush; camp; captain; cattle; cavalry; cetywayo; chelmsford; chief; colonel; column; command; companies; country; crealock; day; days; direction; distance; division; drift; durnford; ekowe; enemy; english; feet; fire; following; force; fort; general; ground; guns; half; hill; horses; infantry; king; kraal; left; lieutenant; line; lord; major; man; march; men; miles; morning; natal; native; north; officers; order; party; pearson; people; place; position; prince; range; rear; regiment; right; river; road; sir; south; time; troops; ulundi; valley; waggons; war; white; wood; yards; zulus cache: 42956.txt plain text: 42956.txt item: #115 of 143 id: 43654 author: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton) title: In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria date: None words: 183667 flesch: 72 summary: Mr. Royle, the excellent historian of the Egyptian campaigns, says: Baker knew, or ought to have known, the composition of the troops he commanded, and to take such men into action was simply to court disaster. Equipped with only their rifles, accoutrements and sufficient ammunition, such men ought to have travelled in the week that had elapsed since our departure from Nelson's camp over a hundred miles. keywords: advance; africa; albert; ammunition; arrival; away; bank; barttelot; boat; bonny; camp; canoe; captain; carriers; chief; column; company; congo; corn; country; course; day; days; distance; east; egypt; emin; emin pasha; end; expedition; falls; feet; find; following; food; force; forest; fort; general; good; government; great; half; head; hours; illustration; ipoto; ituri; jameson; jephson; journey; lake; land; leave; left; letter; little; loads; major; man; manyuema; march; men; miles; months; morning; natives; nelson; news; night; number; nyanza; officers; order; parke; party; pasha; people; place; rapids; rear; relief; return; rifles; river; road; route; sir; soudanese; south; stairs; stanley; state; station; steamer; tib; time; tippu; track; ugarrowwa; view; village; way; white; work; yambuya; yards; zanzibaris cache: 43654.txt plain text: 43654.txt item: #116 of 143 id: 44456 author: Martin, Minnie title: Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs date: None words: 40191 flesch: 75 summary: Here and there through the country old men are to be found who possess marvellous stores of knowledge, but how much it can be relied upon, would be a question impossible to answer satisfactorily. The graves of old men are always dug round the kraal, others are buried, either on the hill top, or in sight of the kraal, but not very near. keywords: basuto; basutoland; cattle; chapter; chief; child; children; country; day; father; girls; government; hand; heart; home; hut; length; man; men; mokete; mother; native; near; night; people; river; round; son; spirits; takane; time; village; water; way; wife; women cache: 44456.txt plain text: 44456.txt item: #117 of 143 id: 44649 author: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) title: The Last Boer War date: None words: 76372 flesch: 58 summary: The members of the Reform Committee were also seized and tried at Pretoria, several of them being condemned to death, a sentence which was not executed; the whole story, coming to its end to an accompaniment of the clash not of swords, but of gold; the fines inflicted upon the conspirators by the Transvaal Government amounting to a total of many tens of thousands of pounds. Between this chief and the Transvaal Government difficulties arose in the beginning of 1876 on the usual subject--land. keywords: africa; annexation; boer government; boers; british; cape; case; commission; convention; country; course; day; dutch; england; english; force; general; good; government; home; inhabitants; little; lord; majesty; man; matter; natal; native; party; peace; people; president; pretoria; queen; question; republic; right; rule; secocoeni; shepstone; sir; south; state; territory; time; transvaal; volksraad; war; way; white; words; years cache: 44649.txt plain text: 44649.txt item: #118 of 143 id: 45380 author: Blackburn, Henry title: Artists and Arabs; Or, Sketching in Sunshine date: None words: 31848 flesch: 60 summary: We take our places quickly in the _intérieur_, and are wedged in between little soft white figures with black eyes and stained finger-nails, who stare at us with a fixed and stony stare, all the way back to Algiers. The mountain-ranges to the south were like an undulating sea, divided from us by lesser hills and little plains, with here and there valleys, green and cultivated; but the prevailing character of the scenery was rocky and barren. keywords: air; algeria; algiers; arab; beauty; city; colour; costume; dark; day; days; feet; french; ground; half; houses; illustration; leaves; life; light; men; moorish; moors; morning; mountains; picture; place; sea; shadows; street; sun; time; town; trees; variety; way; white; wind; winter; work cache: 45380.txt plain text: 45380.txt item: #119 of 143 id: 45442 author: Gehrts, Meg title: A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematograph dramas date: None words: 85615 flesch: 71 summary: INDEX Accra, 286, 303, 307 Agbandi, 62; native giant at, 63 Aledjo, beauty and healthfulness of, 85; mission station at, 86; grass fires at, 87, 281 Alfred, our interpreter, 54, 102, 103, 169, 244, 309 Anâ, native village, 57, 60 Antelope, 134, 151, 152, 153 Arrows, poisoned, European shot by, 142 Ashantis, 159 Asmani, Schomburgk's personal boy, 179, 229, 309 Atakpame, 28; Catholic Mission at, 50, 63, 186, 275, 284, 286, 295 Audassi, 66 Babies, native, 270 Bafilo, the bairam festival at, 90; cotton industry at, 92; artificial pearls made at, 95, 251 Banjeli, 237; beautiful situation of, 238; arrival of mail at, 241; a pig purchased at, 242; punishing carriers at, 244; chief of, 245, 249, 250 Bapure, 112 Bassari, 239, 241; iron market at, 247, 250, 251; station house at, 252; Mr. Muckè, Sub-District Commissioner of, 252; our house at, 253; I entertain the wives of the Mallam Mohammed at, 257, 291 Bats, a plague of, 139; as food, 225 Beapabe, native town, 251 Bedford, Duke of, 19 Beer, native, 111 Bees, wild, 259 Beetles, beautiful, 240 Berger, Dr., 57 _et seq._ Betrothals in infancy of native girls, 264 Birds, valuable feather-bearing in Northern Togo, 149, 150, 154 _Bremen_, S.M.S., 26 Buffalo, 20 Butter, native, 139 Bwete, native village, 145 Cameras, damage to by heat, 136 Cameroons, wireless station in, 299 Chameleons, 209 Chief's mail, 184, 185 Childbirth amongst native women, 268 Children, native, government education of, 290 Cinema acting, on board ship, 21; in Madeira, 24; at Kamina, 33; at Paratau, 77; at Lome, 305 Cooking, native, 275 Corn-bins, curious, at Tschopowa, 224 Cotton industry, native, 92 _et seq._ Cowrie shells, as money, 97 Crocodiles, 145, 189, 190 Dagomba tribe, 214 Dahomeyans, 159 Death, native ceremonies at, 261, 262 Dedaure, Mallam of, 288 Dehn, Mr. and Mrs., 291 Djabotaure, 64; adventure at, 65, 293 Djereponi, 208 _ long day's journey--I narrowly escape sunstroke-- Wholesome anger a good tonic--I taste native beer for the first time--And find it both refreshing and sustaining --Antelope spoor--Exchange carriers--First meeting with the Konkombwa--The finest race of savages in Togo-- Native dandies--Trouble with our horse boys--They are punished--In the heart of the wilds--European and native rest-houses--Paying our carriers with salt--Schomburgk gets bushed--Resents my anxiety--We quarrel--Elephant spoor--I am given my first lesson in wood-craft-- Mosquitoes--The yellow-fever breeding anophele--We cross the Kara River--First sight of hippopotami--We strike the Oti, the principal river of Northern Togo 108-124 CHAPTER X CHRISTMAS AT SANSANE-MANGU At Mangu--Captain von Hirschfeld--I make an impression-- Though not the kind I should have liked to have made--The Place where Warriors Meet--A brush with the Tschokossi --Captain von Hirschfeld's splendid hospitality--Tamberma Fort--The head tax---The Mangu plantations--Mangu in the rainy season--Great heat--Terrific thunderstorms-- Our Christmas dinner at Mangu--New Year's Eve festivities --We burn three thousand feet of film--Game birds round Mangu--A fishing carnival--Queer native methods-- Canoeing on the Oti River--A marvellous shot--Filming in the tropics--More difficulties--The new station at Mangu, and the old one--A striking contrast--The big Mangu songu--A gathering of the clans--Trapping a hyena-- A plague of bats--Fresh milk and native butter--Ancient records at Mangu 125-140 CHAPTER XI OUR FARTHEST NORTH Northward from Mangu--Wild savages and poisoned arrows--A treacherous attack and a lucky escape--Different arrow poisons--Grass fires and their drawbacks--Mosquitoes and some yarns about them--Wild natives--The wild Tschokossi women--A new dress every day--Our boys go swimming in a crocodile-infested pool--Our pet monkey gets loose-- Searching for hippos--An unreliable guide--Sullen natives --A too-early call--A wonderful game country--In God's big zoo--Gorgeous plumaged birds--I want Schomburgk to shoot some for me--He objects--Sun birds and blue jays--Across a yam-field country--A bird sanctuary-- Discovery of a flock of marabou--I regret having no gun-- The costliest feathers on earth--Our guide loses his way again--Fulani herdsmen--They supply us with fresh milk-- Arrival at Sumbu 141-158 CHAPTER XII AMONG THE SUMBU SAVAGES At Sumbu--Wild savages--Our boys afraid--Tschokossi refuse to sell us provisions--I enter a village and buy a chicken--Astonishment of the people at their first sight of coined money--I make friends with the children--Lumps of sugar--A new delicacy--The white honey rock--I become chummy with the chief--He invites me to go over his village with him--I accept the invitation--A unique village--Elaborate precautions against attack--Where did the Tschokossi learn to build these remarkable villages?-- Every village a fortress and every house a fort--Messa gets scared--And Alfred follows suit--Cleanliness and the classes--I try my hand at cheese-making--Our too energetic washerwoman--A novel theory of wages--The ugliest chief in Togo--Marriage among the wild Tschokossi --Men's view--A primitive form of eugenics--Can white women laugh?--Our boys are boycotted--Native women refuse to cook for them--Salt the only currency--Sleeping rough--My boys' anxiety for the safety of their little white mother--Messa makes himself putties--His anxiety about his wife--A case of filaria--Dangerous symptoms 159-182 CHAPTER XIII BACK TO MANGU An adventure with a puff-adder--Welcome news--Chief's mail--Out after hippo--Inexperienced hammock boys-- keywords: african; bassari; black; boys; bush; camp; carriers; chapter; chief; children; country; course; day; days; end; fact; film; girl; going; good; government; half; head; hodgson; house; hut; illustration; journey; kind; konkombwa; left; life; long; lot; mangu; matter; miles; morning; native; new; night; order; oti; people; place; rest; river; road; round; saw; schomburgk; set; sokode; station; time; togo; togoland; tschokossi; village; water; way; white; wild; women; work; young cache: 45442.txt plain text: 45442.txt item: #120 of 143 id: 46303 author: Creswicke, Louis title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 6 (of 8) From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger's Departure from South Africa, with a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901 date: None words: 128571 flesch: 70 summary: Entered R.N. 1864; Capt., 1895. Sir E. Chichester, Bart., Royal Navy, C.M.G. Entered Navy 1863; Capt., 1889. keywords: 1st; 2nd; 3rd; 4th; 5th; a.a.g; a.d.c; action; advance; african war; aldershot; army; artillery; attack; battery; battle; boers; brev; brigade; british; bronze; buller; c.b; campaign; cape; captain; casualties; cavalry; chief; clasp; colonel; colony; commanding; company; corps; country; d.a.a.g; d.s.o; daughter; day; despatches; dist; dutchmen; east; egyptian; egyptian medal; enemy; expedition; field; fighting; fire; force; fusiliers; gallant; general; guards; guns; hamilton; headquarters; hill; hon; horse; hussars; iii; illustration; imperial; india; infantry; ladysmith; late; left; lieut.-col; lieutenant; light; line; lord; maj.-gen; major; march; medal; men; miles; military; mounted; natal; near; nek; new; nile; north; occupied; officer; operations; orange; party; place; position; pretoria; prisoners; railway; regiment; relief; rifles; river; roberts; royal; s. african; second; sir; son; soudan; south; south africa; staff; star; surrender; time; town; transvaal; troops; volunteers; war; war service_--egyptian; war service_--s; war service_--soudan; west; wet; work; wounded; yeomanry; | | cache: 46303.txt plain text: 46303.txt item: #121 of 143 id: 46483 author: Ennis, Luna May title: Our Little Boer Cousin date: None words: 23220 flesch: 84 summary: Aunt Johanna's fears, too, were grave, and Magdalena plainly informed Hercules that there could be no happy wedding on New Year's Day unless little George was captured from the Zulu, and brought home alive and well before that time. But they are great little hunters. keywords: abraham; aunt; boer; boy; boys; cape; children; day; dirk; farm; george; good; grandfather; great; home; joubert; kafirs; koos; kotie; lieutenant; mutla; petrus; ponies; south; story; time; transvaal; trees; uncle; way; zulu cache: 46483.txt plain text: 46483.txt item: #122 of 143 id: 46705 author: Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco) title: In the Land of Mosques & Minarets date: None words: 87354 flesch: 69 summary: The Arab, by tradition, is a temperate person in food and drink, but the European has taught him to drink white wine and he himself has copied the French and taken (in small numbers fortunately) to absinthe, and now he has got a ready-made distillery of _lagmi_ in every palm-tree. To-day Kenchela has nothing for the tourist but its Hôtel de France, and its Monday market, which like other _indigène_ keywords: africa; algeria; algiers; ancient; arab; away; berber; bey; biskra; blida; café; cairo; camel; caravan; carthage; century; chapter; chief; cities; city; civilization; class; coast; constantine; country; day; days; desert; donkey; european; fact; france; french; god; gold; good; government; ground; habib; half; hand; head; holy; home; horse; hotel; illustration; italian; jews; kabyle; kilometres; land; left; life; marabout; market; means; mediterranean; military; minaret; mohammed; moorish; mosque; mountains; mussulman; native; new; north; oran; people; place; population; port; prophet; railway; real; red; road; roman; route; ruins; sheep; sidi; sort; south; things; time; tlemcen; tomb; town; tozeur; tunis; tunisia; view; walls; water; way; white; women; work; world; years cache: 46705.txt plain text: 46705.txt item: #123 of 143 id: 47132 author: Creswicke, Louis title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 7 (of 8) The Guerilla War, from February 1901 to the Conclusion of Hostilities date: None words: 111467 flesch: 63 summary: In this direction, near the junction of the Rhenoster and Honing Spruit, was said to be the laager of Spanneberg, and consequently a force under Colonel the Hon. Command of the column was afterwards temporarily assumed by Colonel Wylly (Derbyshire Regiment), but Colonel Kekewich, recovered, soon returned to duty. keywords: 1st; 2nd; ammunition; april; attack; august; battery; boers; botha; british; burghers; camp; cape; captain; cattle; colonel; colonel allenby; colonel benson; colonel kekewich; colonel rimington; colony; column; commandant; commando; convoy; country; day; district; drift; east; elliot; end; enemy; field; fighting; fire; following; force; general; government; guns; hamilton; horses; imperial; infantry; july; kitchener; laager; left; lieutenant; line; lord; major; march; men; methuen; miles; near; new; night; north; number; officers; operations; orange; orange river; party; place; plumer; pom; position; prisoners; r.f.a; railway; regiment; rifles; river; river colony; royal; scouts; section; sir; south; state; time; transvaal; troops; waggons; war; west; wet; work; wounded; yeomanry; | | cache: 47132.txt plain text: 47132.txt item: #124 of 143 id: 47273 author: Moldenke, Charles E. title: The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks date: None words: 56070 flesch: 89 summary: It is he _who brought forth himself_ as _lord of the two countries_ The gracious god, lord_ {78} and _maker of things, _Râ-Hor-Khuti, the lord king, lord of the two of the two countries, countries, Thothmes III., giving him all life. keywords: 144; amen; cent; city; countries; deity; det; dyn; dynasty; east; egypt; egyptian; form; glyphs; god; goddess; great; greek; heliopolis; horus; iii; inscriptions; king; life; lord; lower; mer; neb; north; obelisk; offspring; pharaoh; preceding; present; pron; ramses; ramses ii; roman; son; south; sun; temple; thebes; thothmes; time; upper; west; word cache: 47273.txt plain text: 47273.txt item: #125 of 143 id: 47449 author: None title: South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 8 (of 8) South Africa and Its Future date: None words: 84886 flesch: 60 summary: This force has been formed for the maintenance of order and public security in the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal, but is available for service in any part of British South Africa. Everyone who has followed the story of the War in South Africa from start to finish will assuredly have acquired a keen and lasting interest in the land which has been won by the expenditure of so much blood and treasure. keywords: african; boer; bond; british; british south; cape; cape colony; case; children; coast; colonies; colony; country; development; dutch; east; empire; england; english; european; fact; feet; free; future; general; gold; good; government; great; high; illustration; imperial; industry; irrigation; johannesburg; land; law; line; little; man; means; mines; mining; natal; native; new; north; orange; past; people; place; policy; population; present; question; railway; rand; rhodesia; river; sir; south africa; state; system; time; total; town; transvaal; united; value; view; war; water; white; women; working; world; years; | | cache: 47449.txt plain text: 47449.txt item: #126 of 143 id: 48550 author: King, William Ross title: Campaigning in Kaffirland; Or, Scenes and Adventures in the Kaffir War of 1851-52 date: None words: 103344 flesch: 59 summary: Three tents had been pitched for him and his Staff at some 300 yards from the camp, whither they repaired; the chiefs and great men dismounting in front, and the rest off-saddling in the rear of the tents. We were permitted to rest in camp next day, though parties of Fingoes were out in all directions, burning and destroying the deserted Kaffir kraals. keywords: 74th; arms; attack; beaufort; body; brigade; bush; camp; cape; cattle; chief; colonel; column; country; dark; day; days; distance; enemy; evening; feet; fine; fingoes; fire; following; foot; force; forest; fort; general; grass; green; ground; half; head; heights; hill; horses; hours; kaffirs; left; levies; lieut.-col; little; man; march; men; miles; morning; mountain; night; officers; open; party; pass; place; plain; point; position; post; range; rifles; river; road; shot; sun; tents; time; town; trees; troops; valley; waggons; waterkloof; way; white; women; wood; wounded cache: 48550.txt plain text: 48550.txt item: #127 of 143 id: 48598 author: Rayne, Henry A. title: Sun, Sand and Somals Leaves from the note-book of a District Commissioner in British Somaliland date: None words: 48887 flesch: 80 summary: It was something about a letter that had to be delivered by him under certain contingencies; contingencies that occurred in the careers of many good men, alas, only too often in those days. And the people who are left are cripples, some of whom crawl on all fours, frail bent old men and women, deformed children, the sight of whose withered twisted limbs and pathetic eyes would wring the last sixpence from anyone but a hard-hearted D.C., who is so used to looking at and seeing these things. keywords: adan; arab; british; buralli; camel; camp; case; chapter; come; country; court; day; days; dhow; french; good; ground; hand; head; house; left; life; look; mahomed; man; men; morning; mullah; night; people; police; poor; rupees; sahib; sea; somal; somaliland; story; time; town; water; way; wife; woman; work; years; zeila cache: 48598.txt plain text: 48598.txt item: #128 of 143 id: 4943 author: Churchill, Winston title: The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan date: None words: 127701 flesch: 71 summary: Gordon embarked on his mission in high spirits, sustained by that belief in personality which too often misleads great men and beautiful women. Osman Azrak, the valiant Bishara, Yakub, and scores whose strange names have not obscured these pages, but who were, nevertheless, great men of war, lay staring up at the stars. keywords: abu; action; advance; arabs; army; artillery; atbara; attack; bank; battalions; berber; brigade; british; camel; camp; cavalry; colonel; column; corps; country; day; days; dervish army; dervishes; desert; distance; dongola; egyptian; end; enemy; expedition; field; fire; force; general; gordon; government; ground; gunboats; guns; half; hamed; infantry; khalifa; khartoum; left; line; mahdi; major; march; men; miles; military; nile; north; officers; omdurman; order; osman; place; plain; position; power; railway; right; river; sirdar; soldiers; soudan; soudanese; south; squadrons; suakin; time; town; troops; war; water; white; wounded; yards; zeriba cache: 4943.txt plain text: 4943.txt item: #129 of 143 id: 49591 author: Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni) title: In African Forest and Jungle date: None words: 43128 flesch: 89 summary: Facing page_ 4 Rogala and Andekko 12 Ndova's mother tries to carry him away into the forest 18 We raised our guns and aimed at the two biggest white-nosed ones and fired 26 She looked at me in fear and trembling, and she and the children ran to hide 32 The leopard was slowly crawling near 38 We fired and brought him down 44 Boiling water and hot ashes were thrown upon the ants and we put brands across their path 52 Suddenly the bull made for the river 58 Gun in hand, I watched for him to swim to the surface of the water 70 He put his nose close to her face and moaned pitifully 88 Soon I saw their heads peeping over the palisades 94 Rogala and his idol 98 The two nshiego-nkengos had their backs turned towards us, and were eating pineapples 114 When the raft was ready Rogala, Ndova, and Andekko crossed to the island 122 When I was ready to take observations, I seated myself cross-legged before the artificial horizon 128 Rogala came out of the den holding two little live leopards by the neck 136 Clearly this village belonged to a warlike tribe, whose people were always fighting 146 When I saw him, I came towards him, and in an instant we were in each other's arms 152 Suddenly Rogala uttered a terrific war-cry and ran towards the man 168 He ate with us, and consequently had the same food 174 Andekko had pinned the mandrill down and they were fighting savagely 180 At the end of the day I had made a pair of skin trousers 190 IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE CHAPTER I A CANOE-VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF ROTEMBO THE CHIEF--A TOILET OF CEREMONY--ROTEMBO's GROTESQUE COSTUME--A FORMAL RECEPTION--SPEECHES OF ROTEMBO AND MYSELF--A DANCE IN MY HONOR--MY PRESENTS TO THE CHIEF--WE BECOME GOOD FRIENDS [Illustration: _When the raft was ready Rogala, Ndova, and Andekko crossed to the island_. keywords: andekko; camp; chapter; day; forest; good; left; leopard; looking; man; men; monkeys; ndova; night; oguizi; people; rogala; rotembo; shinshooko; thought; time; tree cache: 49591.txt plain text: 49591.txt item: #130 of 143 id: 50384 author: Elmendorf, Dwight L. (Dwight Lathrop) title: The Mentor: Egypt, the Land of Mystery, Serial No. 42 date: None words: 7304 flesch: 82 summary: ] ==================================================================== SUPPLEMENTARY READING.--Modern Egypt and Thebes, Sir Gardiner Wilkinson; A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, A. B. Edwards; Egypt, S. Lane-Poole; A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest, J. H. Breasted; A Short History of Ancient Egypt, P. E. Newberry and J. Garstang; The Empire of the Ptolemies, J. P. Mahaffy; Egypt in the Nineteenth Century, D. A. Cameron; Modern Egypt, Lord Cromer. It is, therefore, a good way for the visitor to break into ancient Egypt. keywords: = =; cairo; egypt; feet; illustration; luxor; mentor; nile; pyramid; sphinx; temple cache: 50384.txt plain text: 50384.txt item: #131 of 143 id: 5157 author: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton) title: How I Found Livingstone Travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley date: None words: 163743 flesch: 70 summary: The idea had struck me before, that if I could obtain the services of a few men acquainted with the ways of white men, and who could induce other good men to join the expedition I was organizing, I might consider myself fortunate. As fast as one was flogged from his stubborn position, prone to the depths fell another, giving me a Sisyphean labour, which was maddening trader pelting rain, assisted by such men as Bombay and Uledi, who could not for a whole skin's sake stomach the storm and mire. keywords: africa; american; animals; arabs; attack; bagamoyo; beads; bin; black; body; bombay; camp; caravan; central; chief; cloth; country; day; days; deep; doctor; donkeys; doti; east; expedition; face; far; feet; fever; fine; forest; going; good; grass; great; ground; guns; half; halt; hamed; head; home; hours; house; jungle; lake; land; left; letters; life; livingstone; man; march; master; means; men; miles; mind; mirambo; morning; mountains; natives; nature; new; news; night; nile; north; pagazis; people; place; plain; point; return; river; road; saw; sayd; shaw; sheikh; soldiers; south; speke; stream; sultan; tanganika; tent; things; think; thought; time; trees; ugogo; ujiji; unyanyembe; valley; view; village; war; water; way; west; western; white; words; work; yards; young; zanzibar cache: 5157.txt plain text: 5157.txt item: #132 of 143 id: 52444 author: Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni) title: Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young People date: None words: 75104 flesch: 87 summary: While on the subject of the food of the cannibals, I ought to mention that they do not sell the bodies of their chiefs, kings, or great men; these receive burial, and remain undisturbed. Accordingly he gave me two of his sons to accompany me, and ordered several men to carry my chests, guns, powder, bullets, and shot. keywords: aboko; animal; black; body; camp; chapter; country; day; days; elephant; eyes; face; feet; fish; forest; good; gorilla; ground; guns; head; house; hunting; illustration; king; left; leopard; looking; man; men; night; people; place; poor; river; saw; thought; time; trees; village; water; way; wild; woods cache: 52444.txt plain text: 52444.txt item: #133 of 143 id: 5760 author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir title: Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1 date: None words: 59650 flesch: 67 summary: Seated in a chair and ready for business, he was surrounded by a crowd of courtiers, who listened attentively to every word, especially when he affected to whisper; and some pretty women collected to peep round the corners at the Utangáni (white man). I come up for white man, you come up for black man. keywords: african; black; boat; bush; cape; case; chaillu; chap; chapter; coast; country; dark; day; days; east; eastern; end; english; feet; fine; forest; form; forteune; french; fán; gaboon; good; gorilla; ground; half; hand; head; home; house; instance; island; king; land; left; life; like; line; look; man; men; miles; mission; mpongwe; native; negro; new; night; north; palm; people; place; plateau; point; rains; red; river; sea; set; shore; south; southern; stream; sun; time; town; trade; traveller; tree; tribes; village; water; way; west; white; wild; wilson; women; work; years cache: 5760.txt plain text: 5760.txt item: #134 of 143 id: 5761 author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir title: Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2 date: None words: 78613 flesch: 70 summary: When the Lower Congo shall become the emporium of lawful trade, the white face will find a sanatorium in these portals of the Sierra del Crystal,--the vine will flourish, the soil will produce the cereals as well as the fruits and vegetables of Europe, and this region will become one of the Paradises of Africa. Up the Congo to Banza Nokki Chapter X. Notes on the Nzadi or Congo River Chapter XI. keywords: a.m.; africa; annabom; bank; banza; bed; black; boma; breeze; bush; captain; central; chapter; chief; cloth; coast; congo; congo river; cor; country; course; current; dahome; dark; day; days; distance; ditto; east; eastern; end; english; expedition; factory; father; feet; fine; french; gidi; good; grass; great; green; ground; half; head; hills; house; island; king; lake; land; left; lenha; line; livingstone; loanda; loango; long; man; march; mavunga; men; merolla; miles; native; negro; niger; nile; nkulu; nokki; noon; north; p.m.; palm; people; place; point; porto; portuguese; present; rains; rapids; red; return; right; river; rock; sea; season; second; sept; september; shore; slave; sonho; south; southern; stream; sun; são; time; trade; traveller; tree; tuckey; upper; village; water; way; west; white; wild; wind; women; work; years; yellala; yellow cache: 5761.txt plain text: 5761.txt item: #135 of 143 id: 5891 author: Kingsley, Mary Henrietta title: Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons date: None words: 195363 flesch: 67 summary: Was I a wife of them Move white man, they inquired--or them other white man? And these Igalwas are great men at canoe work, and can go in a canoe anywhere that any mortal man can go--this to cheer up my Igalwa interpreter--and as for the husband, neither the Royal Geographical Society's list, in their 'Hints to Travellers,' nor keywords: account; affair; african; away; bank; black; boys; bush; calabar; canoe; captain; case; chief; children; close; cloth; coast; come; coming; congo; country; course; day; deal; death; district; doctor; end; english; fans; feet; fernando; fetish; fever; fine; fire; forest; form; french; friends; getting; going; gold; good; government; grass; great; half; hand; having; head; home; house; human; idea; island; kind; lady; leaves; left; life; little; long; look; making; man; mangrove; means; men; mind; mission; mountain; native; new; night; ogowe; palm; path; pay; people; person; place; point; present; red; region; rembwe; river; road; rocks; round; rubber; save; saw; says; sea; set; sierra; sort; soul; south; spirit; state; swamp; things; thought; time; town; trade; tree; tribes; village; want; water; way; west; west africa; west coast; white; women; wood; work; world; years cache: 5891.txt plain text: 5891.txt item: #136 of 143 id: 6886 author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir title: First Footsteps in East Africa date: None words: 128348 flesch: 70 summary: Old men frequently marry young girls, but then the portion is high and the _menage a trois_ common. They have proved themselves good men in wit as well as war; yet, like the old Greenlanders and some of the Burmese tribes, they are apparently unable to believe in the existence of the Supreme. keywords: a.m.; abban; abyssinian; aden; africa; ali; amir; animals; arab; arabic; awal; bedouins; berberah; black; blood; camels; caravan; cattle; chief; children; city; cloth; coast; coffee; cold; companions; country; cut; day; days; death; deep; east; eastern; eesa; end; evening; father; feet; fire; gallas; general; gerad; good; great; ground; gudabirsi; habr; hajj; half; hand; harar; having; head; hills; hour; house; indian; kraal; land; left; lieutenant; life; like; line; little; long; man; march; means; men; miles; milk; mohammed; morning; mountains; night; north; number; p.m.; party; people; place; plain; present; rain; red; rer; return; road; said; sand; saw; sea; season; second; sheep; somal; son; south; southern; spear; speke; stones; sultan; sun; time; tobacco; town; traveller; tree; tribe; use; valley; village; walls; war; water; way; white; wild; women; work; years; zayla cache: 6886.txt plain text: 6886.txt item: #137 of 143 id: 7937 author: Bridge, Horatio title: Journal of an African Cruiser Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa date: None words: 66842 flesch: 69 summary: The exigencies of the trade require such men; and any defect, either of capacity or integrity, would soon be brought to light by the onerous duties and responsibilities imposed upon them. For my own part, I have dined at the tables of many colored men in Liberia, have entertained them on shipboard, worshipped with them at church; walked, rode, and associated with them, as equal with equal, if not as friend with friend. keywords: africa; american; board; boat; cape; captain; character; coast; colonists; country; day; death; dollars; english; feet; french; gold; good; government; governor; grand; head; house; inhabitants; island; king; land; left; liberia; little; man; men; merchant; miles; natives; new; night; officers; old; palaver; palmas; people; place; sea; settlement; ship; shore; slave; time; town; trade; trees; tribe; vessels; war; water; white; women; years cache: 7937.txt plain text: 7937.txt item: #138 of 143 id: 8185 author: Douglas, Norman title: Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia date: None words: 48311 flesch: 70 summary: Had a couple of local saints been judiciously approached, the population would soon have discovered that the _termid_ waters are injurious to health and only fit for unbelievers. As for the much-vaunted calm to be found within their walls, it is there, to be sure, together with certain other things--there and nowhere else, since the frantic religious passions, of which such monastic institutions are offshoots, have made peaceable living outside their walls an impossibility. keywords: air; arabs; chapter; chott; company; country; course; day; days; desert; earth; end; eyes; fine; francs; french; gafsa; good; green; ground; half; home; kind; land; life; line; look; man; men; metlaoui; mind; monsieur; native; nefta; night; oasis; palms; past; place; plain; point; railway; rest; roman; sand; spot; stones; sun; things; thought; time; town; tozeur; trees; tunisia; water; way; wind; words; work; world; years cache: 8185.txt plain text: 8185.txt item: #139 of 143 id: 8213 author: Barrow, Katherine Mary title: Three Years in Tristan da Cunha date: None words: 83214 flesch: 88 summary: The last few days have been hot and misty. Many days are like this, and our house often resembles a shop. keywords: afternoon; boat; cape; captain; chapter; children; church; coming; day; ellen; evening; friday; glass; going; good; graham; green; home; house; island; keytel; letters; man; men; monday; morning; mrs; night; old; people; repetto; room; round; saturday; school; sea; ship; shore; sunday; swain; tea; thought; thursday; time; tristan; tuesday; way; wednesday; week; wet; wind; women; year; yesterday cache: 8213.txt plain text: 8213.txt item: #140 of 143 id: 8417 author: Speke, John Hanning title: What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile date: None words: 101039 flesch: 60 summary: When that was settled, many other men, and amongst them the sultan's second brother Hassan, coveting my clothes, wished to be engaged. It is true that the slaves whom the Arab merchants, or other men, have in their possession, never forsake their master, as if they disliked their state in bondage; but then, when we consider their position, what pleasure or advantage would they derive by doing so? keywords: abban; aden; africa; animals; arabs; beads; berbera; bombay; burton; camels; camp; captain; caravan; cattle; chief; cloth; coast; consequence; country; day; days; distance; east; end; expedition; good; government; great; ground; half; having; head; high; hills; journey; lake; land; leave; left; life; line; long; man; march; men; miles; morning; n'yanza; night; nile; north; party; people; place; present; return; river; said; sea; shore; small; somali; south; sultan; sumunter; thought; time; travelling; village; water; way; west; zanzibar cache: 8417.txt plain text: 8417.txt item: #141 of 143 id: 8564 author: Park, Mungo title: Life and Travels of Mungo Park date: None words: 148595 flesch: 65 summary: The Jaloffs (or Yaloffs) are an active, powerful, and warlike race, inhabiting great part of that tract which lies between the river Senegal and the Mandingo States on the Gambia; yet they differ from the Mandingoes, not only in language, but likewise in complexion and features. The case was this: An ass belonging to a Serawoolli Negro (a native of an interior country near the River Senegal) had broke into a field of corn belonging to one of the Mandingo inhabitants, and destroyed great part of it. keywords: account; africa; afternoon; ali; arrival; author; bambarra; banks; boy; cattle; chapter; chief; coast; coffle; corn; country; course; day; days; distance; dooty; evening; expedition; following; gambia; gold; ground; head; horse; hut; inhabitants; jarra; journey; kaarta; karfa; king; kingdom; left; length; life; man; manner; means; men; miles; moors; morning; natives; negroes; niger; night; number; o'clock; order; park; party; people; person; place; present; provisions; return; river; road; route; sand; sego; set; situation; slaves; state; thought; time; town; travellers; tree; village; war; water; way; white; women; woods cache: 8564.txt plain text: 8564.txt item: #142 of 143 id: 8815 author: Blanc, Henry title: Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People date: None words: 103080 flesch: 65 summary: At first Theodore, gratified at receiving such beautiful gifts, treated the ambassador with all courtesy and distinction; but on account of the unsafe condition of the country at the time, he took his guest with him, and considering Magdala a proper and suitable place of residence, left him there. Little by little Theodore worked on the minds of his people, impressing them with the idea that, after all, the Bishop was only a man like themselves; and, at least in Theodore's camp, he had already lost much of his prestige when the Emperor spread the report that his honour had been assailed by the Bishop whom they all worshipped. keywords: abyssinia; account; amba; army; arrival; bishop; cameron; camp; captives; chains; chiefs; country; day; days; death; distance; emperor; emperor theodore; europeans; flad; friends; gaffat; galla; good; ground; house; king; leave; left; letter; little; magdala; majesty; man; march; massowah; men; money; months; morning; night; order; people; place; prisoners; queen; rassam; return; road; samuel; servants; soldiers; tent; theodore; time; water; way; years cache: 8815.txt plain text: 8815.txt item: #143 of 143 id: 8821 author: Cameron, Verney Lovett title: To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I date: None words: 85895 flesch: 71 summary: Liquor is cheap; a bottle of _aguardente_ or _caxaça_ (new raw rum) costs only fivepence, and the second distillation ninepence. The _cígarros_ (cigarettes), neatly bound in bundles of twenty-five, were of three kinds, _fortes_ (strong), _entre-fortes_, and _fracos_ (mild). keywords: africa; air; bay; black; blue; board; boats; british; brown; building; canaries; canary; cape; capital; captain; castle; chief; church; city; climate; coast; cochineal; cold; company; country; cruz; cut; dark; days; del; don; east; eastern; end; enemy; england; english; fact; feet; fire; footnote; fort; french; funchal; gambia; general; gold; good; government; governor; grand; green; grey; ground; guns; half; head; hill; home; house; island; juan; laguna; las; lava; left; leone; lieutenant; life; light; like; line; little; london; look; madeira; man; men; miles; modern; native; new; north; northern; officers; orotava; people; place; point; port; portuguese; red; river; rock; santa; saw; sea; second; ships; shore; shows; sierra; south; southern; spanish; square; stone; sun; tenerife; time; total; town; trade; trees; upper; valley; view; wall; water; way; weather; west; western; white; wine; wood; work; world; years; yellow cache: 8821.txt plain text: 8821.txt