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See above, p. 309. Theal, p. 54. The Teton lady who became a mermaid was summoned, by singing an incantation, to suckle her child; "Journal Amer. F. L." vol. ii. p. 137. Schreck, p. 71. Poestion, p. 55; "Cymru Fu," p. 474. "Y Cymmrodor," vol. iv. p. 177, vol. vi. p. 203.
Helps: Spanish Conquest, IV, 401. Helps, op. cit., I, 219-220. Helps, op. cit., II, 18-19. Helps, op. cit., III, 211-212. Theal: History and Ethnography of South Africa before 1795, I, 476. Ingram: History of Slavery, p. 152. That was a wonderful century, the fifteenth, when men realized that beyond the scowling waste of western waters were dreams come true.
The Boers have produced from their own ranks no literary champion to plead or defend their cause, and their earlier history is therefore little known, and often misunderstood; but to their aid has come Mr. George McCall Theal, the South African historian, whose years of laborious research have rescued for South Africa much that would otherwise have been lost. In his 'History of the Boers' Mr.
J. Roscoe, The Baganda, p. 80. Rev. R. Sutherland Rattray, op. cit. pp. 191 sq. Rev. See Totemism and Exogamy, iv. 224 sqq. This statement applies especially to the Ama-Xosa. G. McCall Theal, Kaffir Folk-lore, p. 218. Rev. Compare above, p. 28. The other consequences supposed to flow from the omission of the rites are mentioned by Father Campana. From Mr. The Rev. G. Brown, quoted by the Rev.
EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION COUNTRY BY COUNTRY. Portugal: C. R. Beazley, Prince Henry the Navigator in "Heroes of the Nation," Series ; J. P. Oliveira Martins, The Golden Age of Prince Henry the Navigator, trans. with notes and additions by J. J. Abraham and W. E. Reynolds ; K. G. Jayne, Vasco da Gama and his Successors, 1460- 1580 ; H. M. Stephens, Portugal , a brief sketch in the "Story of the Nations" Series; F. C. Danvers, The Portuguese In India, 2 vols. , a thorough and scholarly work; H. M. Stephens, Albuquerque and the Portuguese Settlements in India , in "Rulers of India" Series; Angel Marvaud, Le Portugal et ses colonies ; G. M. Theal, History and Ethnography of Africa South of the Zambesi, Vol.
Others have been collected by Johnston, Ellis, and Theal. A black bard of our own day has described the onslaught of the Matabili in poetry of singular force and beauty: They saw the clouds ascend from the plains: It was the smoke of burning towns. The confusion of the whirlwind Was in the heart of the great chief of the blue-colored cattle. The shout was raised, "They are friends!"
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger. Mr. Theal says: 'During the months of September and October, 1856, Commandant-General M. W. Pretorius made a tour through the districts of Rutsenburg, Pretoria and Potchefstroom, and called public meetings at all the centres of population.
G. Nachtigal, Saharâ und Sûdân, iii. Major C. Percival, "Tropical Africa, on the Border Line of Mohamedan Civilization," The Geographical Journal, xlii. pp. 253 sq. The people over whom he ruled seem to have been the Bantu tribe of the Makalanga in the neighbourhood of Sofala. See G. McCall Theal, Records of South-Eastern Africa, vii. pp. 481-484. Lieut.
These were Benoni Melanson, his wife Mary, and children, Mary, Joseph, Simeon, John, Bezaleel, "Carre," and another daughter not named; Geoffroy Benway, Abigail, his wife, and children, John, Peter, Joseph, and Mary; Theal Forre, his wife Abigail, and children, Mary, Abigail, Margaret. The Forre family were soon transferred to Harvard.
Theal records the causes of the great emigration, and shows how the Boers stood up for fair treatment, and fought the cause, not of Boers alone, but of all colonists.
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