United States or Iran ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The consul at Durban as well as the commander of the German man-of-war Condor protested in the name of their Government against the seizure of the Herzog.
I thought I had grabbed my friend Laputa that night in Durban, but I was too cocksure and he slipped off. Do you know, Mr Crawfurd, you have been on the right trail long before me? When did you say you saw him at his devil-worship? Seven years ago? Then you were the first man alive to know the Reverend John in his true colours. You knew seven years ago what I only found out last year.
He could see the trees, the kameel-thorn, the blue-gums, the orange and peach trees surrounding it, a clump or cloud of green in the veld. "No, Mrs. Byng's not with him," was the reply. Stafford stirred uneasily, a frown gathered, his eyes took on a look of sombre melancholy. "Ah," he said at length, "she has returned to Durban, then?" "No.
For instance, he and I were the only persons who escaped from the massacre of Retief and his companions by the Zulu king, Dingaan. In the subsequence campaigns, including the Battle of the Blood River, he fought at my side and ultimately received a good share of captured cattle. After this he retired and set up a native store at a place called Pinetown, about fifteen miles out of Durban.
I could notice this as a boy, down South in the slavery days before the war. The splendid black satin skin of the South African Zulus of Durban seemed to me to come very close to perfection.
It was between a prayer-meeting and an experience-meeting at Durban that I used part of the ill-gotten money. I had not touched it till then. But two days later I got back the very note that I'd spent. A prey to remorse, I wandered from town to town, trying to do business." Rachel stood up. "Julian!" It was the first time in her life that she had called him by his Christian name. "What?"
Still, for her mother's sake she determined that if she could bring it about, they should stay where they were. Indeed there was no choice between this and returning to England, as her father had quarrelled too bitterly with the white men at Durban to allow of his taking up his residence among them again.
"Why, Tom! You're hurt!" cried Ned, who came into the pilot house at that moment, and saw blood on his chum. "Only a scratch," the young inventor declared. "It's more than that," said Mr. Durban who looked at it a little later. "It must be bound up, Tom." And, while Ned steered the ship back to the jungle clearing whence they had come to make the night attack, Tom's wound was dressed.
I visited many public schools at Durban, and had the pleasure of meeting many bright children. But all fine things must end, and December 14, 1897, the "crew" of the Spray, after having a fine time in Natal, swung the sloop's dinghy in on deck, and sailed with a morning land-wind, which carried her clear of the bar, and again she was "off on her alone," as they say in Australia.
Dove, beginning to weaken in face of this desperate alternative. "Of course, father, but if I go to Zululand I want you and mother to trek to Durban, and remain there till I return." "Why, Rachel? It is absurd." "Because I do not think that you are safe here, and it is not at all absurd," she answered stubbornly.
Word Of The Day