Ballou's Monthly Magazine, Volume 49Thomes & Talbot, 1879 |
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Page 568 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 507 - Mosi-oa-tunya, or the Victoria Falls. Looking from Garden Island down to the bottom of the abyss, nearly half a mile of water, which has fallen over that portion of the Falls to our right, or west of our point of view, is seen collected in a narrow channel twenty or thirty yards wide, and flowing at exactly right angles to its previous course, to our left; while the other half, or that which fell over the eastern portion of the Falls, is seen in the left of the narrow channel below, coming toward...
Page 107 - On one head all the hair is of a uniform height ; but one-third in front is ashy or sandy, and the rest black, a sharply defined separation dividing the two colours. Not a few are so ingeniously grotesque as to appear as if done purposely to excite laughter. One has a large knot of fiery hair on his crown, all the rest of the head being bald. Another has the most of his hair cut away, leaving three or four rows of small clusters, as if his head were planted with small paint-brushes. A third has his...
Page 107 - A third has his head bare, except where a large patch projects over each temple. One, two, or three cords of twisted hair often fall from the right temple, a foot or eighteen inches long. Some men wear a number of these braids so as to form a curtain at the back of the neck, reaching from one ear to the other. A mode that requires great care, has the hair wrought into distinct locks, radiating from the head. Each lock is a perfect cone, about seven inches...
Page 364 - And but little thought was theirs of the silent antique years, In the building of their nest.
Page 288 - neath the heaven above us; Home is where there's one to love! Home is where there's one to love us! Home's not merely roof and room-- It needs something to endear it; Home is where the heart can bloom , Where there's some kind lip to cheer it! What is home with none to meet, None to welcome, none to greet us? Home is sweet- -and only sweet- Where there's one we love to meet us!
Page 276 - Turquoise ; but it could confer a still more wonderful gift on its wearer ; " whoever," says Van Helmont, " wears a Turquoise, so that it, or its gold setting, touches the skin, may fall from any height and the stone attracts to itself the whole force of the blow, so that it cracks and the person is safe.
Page 507 - Zambesi, now apparently not more than twenty or thirty yards wide, rushes and surges south, through the narrow escape-channel for 130 yards; then enters a second chasm somewhat deeper, and nearly parallel with the first. Abandoning the bottom of the eastern half of this second chasm to the growth of large trees, it turns sharply off to the west, and forms a promontory, with the escape-channel at its point, of 1170 yards long, and 416 yards broad at the base.
Page 506 - We were driving swiftly down, a black rock, over which the white foam flew, lay directly in our path, the pole was planted against it as readily as ever, but it slipped just as Tuba put forth his strength to turn the bow off. We struck hard, and were half-full of water in a moment ; Tuba recovered himself as speedily, shoved off the bow, and shot the canoe into a still shallow place, to bale out the water.
Page 506 - ... snag to call out to the steersman. Tuba doubtless thought that talking on board might divert the attention of his steersman at a time when the neglect of an order, or a slight mistake, would be sure to spill us all into the chafing river. There...