Chronicles of Cape Commanders: Or, An Abstract of Original Manuscripts in the Archives of the Cape Colony..Richards, 1882 - 428 pages |
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Albert van Breugel Amsterdam anchor arrived Batavia beachrangers Berg River boat brought burghers Bushmen called Cape Colony Cape Town Captain castle Chamber of Seventeen chief church clans coast Cochoquas colonists Commander's Commissioner Company's Council of Policy crew Directors district Drakenstein Dutch East India Company English Europe Europeans expedition farm farmers four French galiot garden garrison Gonnema Gorachouquas Governor ground Hendrik Honourable horned cattle Hottentots Holland hundred instructions Johannes Kaapmans Klaas kraals land Landdrost months mountains muids Namaquas natives Netherlands obtained officers oxen party Pierre Pieter Portuguese possession present put into Table Quaelberg resolved return fleet Riebeek Robben Island Ryk Tulbagh sailed Saldanha Bay Schacher Secunde sent settlement sheep shillings ships skipper slaves soldiers South Africa St Helena Stavenisse Stel Stellenbosch supply Swellendam Table Bay Table Valley trade Tulbagh vessel visited voyage waggons wife Willem
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Page 325 - Mr. Biggs' work is very thorough, and he has managed to compress a good deal of information into a limited space.
Page 413 - Stapeliae novae; or a collection of several new species of that genus; discovered in the interior parts of Africa.
Page 86 - Chamber of Seventeen had withdrawn that liberty. The local Council thereupon made stringent regulations against such traffic, and as the law now stood a burgher purchasing any animal, dead or alive, directly or indirectly, from a Hottentot, was liable to a fine of £5 for the first offence, £10 for the second, and for the third to be prosecuted for persistent opposition to the government. All intercourse between the two races was so strictly prohibited that a burgher could be punished for permitting...
Page 265 - ... one who has a mission to do some particular work has a good office given him. Still, where life is too prominently regarded in this light, the view of life as a mission tends to supersede the view of it as trial and probation. The mission becomes the final cause of life. The generality may be born to do their duty in that station of life in which it has pleased God to call them...
Page 266 - ... without rests for their guns. The small prizes were — for knocking off the head four shillings, the right wing two shillings, the left wing one shilling and sixpence, the tail one shilling, and a splinter sixpence. The great prize was given to him who knocked off the rump and by doing so destroyed the whole figure. It was five pounds in cash from the honourable company and whatever subscription money was in hand. The winner was escorted home in state by the whole body of shooters, and had the...
Page 92 - They came down upon the farmers' kraals at night and drove the cattle away, while by day they were nowhere to be seen. One night Doman disappeared from the fort. He left his European clothes behind, and the next that was heard of him was that he had been recognised as the leader of a party of plunderers. From that time he made his presence felt in the neighbourhood. He knew that in wet weather it was difficult for the Europeans to use their firelocks, and so he selected rainy days and nights for...
Page 266 - The method of target-shooting in those davs was so peculiar as to merit a description. A figure resembling a parrot, and hence called a papegaai, was fixed upon a pole in the centre of a circle with a radius of sixty feet. The marksmen chose their positions upon an arc of this circle in the order in which they paid the subscription fees, which were—to residents of Stellenbosch one shilling, and to all others four shillings.
Page 120 - The character of the first commander of the colony is delineated in the thousands of pages of manuscript which he left behind. A more dutiful servant no government ever had, for he endeavoured to the utmost to carry out in spirit and in letter the instructions which were given him. He was sanguine in temperament, energetic in action. So active was he that he accomplished, in addition to all his other duties, more mere writing than any ordinary clerk would care to undertake. On the other hand, his...
Page 399 - Ruyter, Tromp, and some other illustrious persons of " Holland. It is small and plain, and suited to the very few " people who have affairs to solicit with him ; but the Governor " himself is so respected and beloved that the inhabitants do not " even pass his door without showing some mark or other of their " respect. The Governor gives no public entertainments ; but what '' is better, though less practised, his purse is always open for tho " service of worthy and indigent people.
Page 238 - Elephant river. There were two hundred spare oxen, most of them trained to carry burdens on their backs, thirteen horses, and eight mules. There was a boat for the purpose of crossing the Berg and Elephant rivers, and there were two small cannons to impress the natives with proper respect for the power of the Europeans. The travelling party consisted of Commander Van der Stel, with three slaves as personal attendants, fifty-six Europeans of various callings, including soldiers, a Macassar prisoner...