Vulgar words in Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (Page 1)

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Some of my companions who had recently joined us, and did not know that I understood a little of their speech, were overheard by me discussing my appearance and powers: "He is not strong; he is quite slim, and only appears stout because he puts himself into those bags (trowsers); he will soon knock up."

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We could only travel in the mornings and evenings, as a single day in the hot sun and heavy sand would have knocked up the oxen.

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The mule, ass, and goat enjoy the same immunity from the tsetse as man and the game.

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Fleming had until this time always assisted to drive his own wagon, but about the end of March he knocked up, as well as his people.

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On the sixth, both men and oxen showed symptoms of knocking up.

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By still going on they broke it, and, being carried away down the stream, it was lost on a snag.

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The precipitous nature of the sides of this mass of hills knocked up the oxen and forced us to slaughter two, one of which, a very large one, and ornamented with upward of thirty pieces of its own skin detached and hanging down, Sekeletu had wished us to take to the white people as a specimen of his cattle.

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Tsetse and the hills had destroyed two riding oxen, and when the little one that I now rode knocked up, I was forced to march on foot.

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Being in so many ways helpful to them, and having, besides, shown from the first that he could knock them up at hard work or traveling, we can not wonder that Livingstone was popular among the Bakwains, though conversions seem to have been of the rarest.

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