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Their artifices, you may remember would have certainly succeeded, but for Mr Burchell's letter, who directed those reproaches at them, which we all applied to ourselves. How he came to have so much influence as to defeat their intentions, still remains a secret to me; but I am convinced he was ever our warmest sincerest friend.
The Duyker-boc, or Diving-buck so called from its habit of ducking or diving under the bushes when pursued is a Cape species; and there is another diving-buck, called the Black-faced; and still another of these bush antelopes, termed Burchell's bush-boc.
'That villain, sir, said she, 'from the first day of our meeting made me honourable, though private, proposals. 'Villain indeed, cried I; 'and yet it in some measure surprizes me, how a person of Mr Burchell's good sense and seeming honour could be guilty of such deliberate baseness, and thus step into a family to undo it.
Burchell's seeming honour could be guilty of such deliberate baseness." "My dear papa," returned my daughter, "you labour under a strange mistake. It is Mr. Thornhill who has ruined me; who employed the two ladies, as he called them, but who, in fact, were abandoned women of the town, to decoy us up to London. Their artifices would certainly have succeeded but for Mr.
Elsewhere throughout Rhodesia the natives are not permitted to have guns and gunpowder, a very wise regulation. In Alaska our Indians are privileged to kill game all the year round, and they have modern firearms with which to do it. And how is it with the game of that day? The true Burchell's zebra is now regarded as extinct!
"Observa. sobre el clima de Lima" page 67. Azara's "Travels" volume 1 page 381. Ulloa's "Voyage" volume 2 page 28. Burchell's "Travels" volume 2 page 524. Webster's "Description of the Azores" page 124. "Voyage a l'Isle de France par un Officier du Roi" tome 1 page 248. "Description of St. At night a stranger arrived at the house of Don Benito and asked permission to sleep there.
I observe in Burchell's travels in South Africa, that he remarks, "Having killed a male ostrich, and the feathers being dirty, it was said by the Hottentots to be a nest bird." I understand that the male emu in the Zoological Gardens takes charge of the nest: this habit, therefore, is common to the family. The Gauchos unanimously affirm that several females lay in one nest.
My attention was so much taken up by Mr Burchell's account, that I scarce looked forward as we went along, til we were alarmed by the cries of my family, when turning, I perceived my youngest daughter in the midst of a rapid stream, thrown from her horse, and struggling with the torrent. She had sunk twice, nor was it in my power to disengage myself in time to bring her relief.
See Humboldt, Fragments Asiatiques, p. 386: Barton's Geography of Plants: and Malte Brun. In the latter work it is said that the limit of the growth of trees in Siberia may be drawn under the parallel of 70 degs. Sturt's Travels, vol. ii. p. 74. A Gaucho assured me that he had once seen a snow-white or Albino variety, and that it was a most beautiful bird. Burchell's Travels, vol. i. p. 280.
Burchell's letter, who directed those reproaches at them which we all applied to ourselves." "You amaze me, my dear!" cried I. "But tell me, what temptation was it that could thus obliterate your virtue?" "He offered me marriage," replied she. "We were indeed married secretly by a popish priest, whose name I was sworn to conceal." "What!" interrupted I. "And were you indeed married?"
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