Humane Policy: Or, Justice to the Aborigines of New Settlements Essential to a Due Expenditure of British Money, and to the Best Interests of the Settlers. With Suggestions how to Civilise the Natives by an Improved Administration of Existing Means

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T. & G. Underwood, 1830 - 248 páginas
 

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Página l - He at the same time gave us a number of cattle for our support. He likewise expressed a wish to send two of his chiefs to the Cape, for the purpose of being better acquainted with the English nation, which I have to request your Lordship's permission for doing. We had an opportunity of further gaining...
Página 170 - The original population of the north-eastern frontier must have been veiy considerable, if any credit can be attached to the accounts given by the old inhabitants of the exploits of their younger days. I have heard one man, who is represented as an estimable character in other respects, declare that within a period of six years, the parties under his orders had either killed or taken 3,200 of these unfortunate creatures. Another has stated to me that the actions in which he had been engaged had caused...
Página cvii - With 150 men, 10,000 or 11,000 head of black cattle might be obtained without danger of losing one man ; and many savages might be taken without resistance, in order to be sent as slaves to India, as they still always come to us unarmed.
Página 249 - Yet it is interlaced with pleasant valleys and large plains, and it is chequered with natural groves and savannahs. Neither is there any want of water, for every hill affords little brooks, which glide down several ways; some of which, after several turnings...
Página li - Lordship's permission for doing. We had an opportunity of further gaining his friendship, by curing him of a dangerous wound he received since we have been here ; and I trust I shall, by frequent communications, and a studious endeavour to avoid giving offence, increase his and his subjects
Página 19 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Página 48 - Negroes who have made, or affect to have made, the laws of the Prophet their peculiar study ; and if I may judge from their harangues, which I frequently attended, I believe that in the forensic qualifications of procrastination and cavil", and the arts of confounding and perplexing a cause, they are not always surpassed by the ablest pleaders in Europe.
Página 249 - The Country of Natal lies open to the Indian Sea on the East, but how far back it runs to the Westward is not yet known. That part of the Country which respects the Sea is plain Champion and Woody ; but within Land it appears more uneven, by Reason of many Hills which rise in unequal Heights above each other. Yet is it interlaced with pleasant Valleys and large Plains, and 'tis checker 'd with Natural Groves and Savannahs.
Página cclvi - Article III. And whereas doubts have arisen as to the competency of Hottentots and other free persons of colour to purchase or possess land in this colony : Be it therefore enacted and declared, that all grants, purchases, and transfers of land, or other property whatsoever heretofore made to or by any Hottentot, or other free person of colour, are and shall be, and the same are hereby declared to...

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