item: #1 of 8 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: #2 of 8 id: 21085 author: Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy) title: The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land date: None words: 96887 flesch: 68 summary: For a moment, after emerging on to the deck, all was terribly dark--as black as ink, as Mr McCarthy had said; but, the next instant, the whole awful scene was lit up by the most intense and vivid flash of lightning Mr Meldrum had ever beheld--the electric fluid being quite unaccompanied by any peal of thunder, although that might have been drowned by the continuous roar and shriek of the howling wind which appeared to have gone mad with the unbridled fury of a demon. What say you, Mr McCarthy, eh? I agree, sure, with Mr Meldrum, son. keywords: air; american; aye; bell; ben; board; boat; cabin; captain; captain dinks; coming; course; crew; day; deck; end; face; frank; good; guess; hands; head; hold; hope; kate; land; left; look; looking; major; man; mate; men; moment; moody; mr adams; mr lathrope; mr mccarthy; mr meldrum; mrs; nancy; negus; party; place; poop; right; round; sail; sea; ship; sir; snowball; sorr; steward; thought; time; vessel; watch; water; waves; way; weather; wind cache: 21085.txt plain text: 21085.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 21453 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors date: None words: 63654 flesch: 80 summary: Our first wishes were to see the wreck and old Mr Mugford, whom we agreed to dub Captain Mugford; and so, immediately after breakfast, we started out with Mr Clare to find those items of principal interest. We felt no hostility to Latin and Greek, for we were but reading of foreign lands and strange people across the ocean in old times, the occurrences of which were but storm-cast hulks like our old brig. keywords: alfred; board; boat; boys; brig; cape; captain; clare; clump; come; day; days; drake; father; fellow; fire; good; half; hand; harry; head; higginson; home; house; juno; land; life; look; man; massa; men; moment; morning; mr clare; mugford; night; pipe; poor; rock; saw; sea; ship; shore; smugglers; thought; time; ugly; walter; way; wind; work cache: 21453.txt plain text: 21453.txt item: #4 of 8 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: #5 of 8 id: 34487 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: The Perils and Adventures of Harry Skipwith by Land and Sea date: None words: 85057 flesch: 77 summary: At other times we were not nearly so well off, as I shall have to recount. Water has often to be brought from great distances; deep trenches have to be dug, and the diggers have to work up to their middle in icy-cold water, with their heads exposed to the hot sun, down in deep holes in the beds of streams, or by the sides of streams, day after day, sometimes finding nothing, at other times only enough to enable them to procure food and lodging for the time. keywords: board; buffalo; camp; canoes; companions; country; course; day; days; distance; fellow; fire; fish; friends; hand; head; horses; indians; island; lake; life; man; marcus; men; miles; moment; new; night; old; party; people; peter; place; poor; raft; ready; red; rest; river; round; saw; set; shore; stalker; stream; thought; time; trevor; vessel; water; way cache: 34487.txt plain text: 34487.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 37732 author: Anonymous title: The Emigrant's Lost Son; or, Life Alone in the Forest date: None words: 44940 flesch: 62 summary: Forest trees, in general, are described; those which may afford food to man are more frequently mentioned. One of the flashes brought down a mora tree near to where I stood, crushing the limbs of other trees as it fell. keywords: air; animals; birds; body; day; earth; father; feet; food; forest; good; head; hour; hut; insects; length; life; man; mind; moment; morning; nature; new; night; pecoe; place; round; scene; sidenote; spirit; spot; state; thought; time; tree; view; water; way; wood cache: 37732.txt plain text: 37732.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 39061 author: Strang, Herbert title: Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo date: None words: 121470 flesch: 84 summary: In two months from the departure of Elbel Jack was able to transfer his stores to the new settlement. And are there pigmies in that forest--little men, you know? keywords: bank; barney; black; boy; camp; canoe; chief; come; congo; course; day; days; elbel; enemy; eyes; find; fire; food; forest; fort; good; half; hand; head; hut; huts; ilola; ilombekabasi; imbono; jack; left; lepoko; like; lokolobolo; man; martindale; massa; men; moment; nando; natives; negro; negroes; new; night; party; pat; people; place; rifles; river; round; rubber; sah; samba; set; shall; sorr; state; stockade; stream; thought; time; uncle; village; wall; water; way; white; work cache: 39061.txt plain text: 39061.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 49129 author: Henson, Josiah title: Father Henson's Story of His Own Life Truth Stranger Than Fiction date: None words: 38490 flesch: 74 summary: The overseer seized my horse's bridle, and ordered me to alight, in the usual elegant phraseology addressed by such men to slaves. They encouraged me in my business enterprise, and the approval of such men was like balm to my soul. keywords: amos; canada; chapter; children; day; england; family; father; freedom; friends; god; good; heart; home; house; life; man; master; men; miles; mother; new; night; place; poor; river; saw; slave; thought; time; way; wife; work; years cache: 49129.txt plain text: 49129.txt