This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... take cognizance of the fact, and he walked about without a blush, while the lifeless body was dragged out to he devoured by the hyenas. When I endeavoured to represent to the chiefs, with whom I was familiar, as old acquaintances, the magnitude of such crimes, they laughed, I might say inordinately, at the horror I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... take cognizance of the fact, and he walked about without a blush, while the lifeless body was dragged out to he devoured by the hyenas. When I endeavoured to represent to the chiefs, with whom I was familiar, as old acquaintances, the magnitude of such crimes, they laughed, I might say inordinately, at the horror I felt for the murder of a woman by her own husband." While proceeding on his journey to visit Moselekatze, the particulars of which will be found detailed in the next chapter, Mr. Moffat again passed through the territory of this people. In his narrative of that journey he writes: --"We were kindly treated by the Barolongs, and on the tenth day of our journey arrived at Mosega, the abode of Mokhatla, regent over the fragments, though still a large body, of the Bahurutsi. These had congregated in a glen, and subsisted on game, roots, berries, and the produce of their corn-fields, having been deprived of their flocks by the Mantatees. They were evidently living in fear lest Moselekatze should one day make them captives." It was at this time that Mr. Moffat witnessed a remarkable instance of that power of adaptation to circumstances which comes naturally even to the most abject and degraded of the human race. "One day," he writes, "my attention was arrested by a beautiful and gigantic tree, standing in a defile leading into an extensive and woody ravine, between a high range of mountains. Seeing some individuals employed on the ground under its shade, and the conical points of what looked like houses in miniature protruding through its evergreen foliage, I proceeded thither, and found that the tree was inhabited by several families of Bakones, the aborigines of the country. I ascended by the notched trunk, and found, to ...
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