Impressions of South AfricaMacmillan, 1897 - 604 strán (strany) |
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Strana xii
... gold - fields , of that model republic the Orange Free State , and of Basutoland , a native state under British protection which pos- sesses many features of peculiar interest . In the fourth and last division of the book several ...
... gold - fields , of that model republic the Orange Free State , and of Basutoland , a native state under British protection which pos- sesses many features of peculiar interest . In the fourth and last division of the book several ...
Strana xiv
... gold - fields and the rush of nineteenth - century miners and speculators into a pastoral population which retains the ideas and habits of the seventeenth century . Still more fascinating are the problems of the future . One can as yet ...
... gold - fields and the rush of nineteenth - century miners and speculators into a pastoral population which retains the ideas and habits of the seventeenth century . Still more fascinating are the problems of the future . One can as yet ...
Strana xxii
... AND POLITICS OF NATAL . • LAING'S NEK AND MAJUBA HILL THE WITWATERSRAND AND ITS GOLD - FIELDS JOHANNESBURG AND PRETORIA • 352 • 354 356 • 365 371 383 BLOEMFONTEIN CHAPTER XIX THE ORANGE FREE STATE CONSTITUTION AND POLITICS xxii CONTENTS.
... AND POLITICS OF NATAL . • LAING'S NEK AND MAJUBA HILL THE WITWATERSRAND AND ITS GOLD - FIELDS JOHANNESBURG AND PRETORIA • 352 • 354 356 • 365 371 383 BLOEMFONTEIN CHAPTER XIX THE ORANGE FREE STATE CONSTITUTION AND POLITICS xxii CONTENTS.
Strana xxv
... GOLD - FIELDS AND THEIR DURATION WILL MANUFACTURES BE DEVELOPED ? • SOUTH AFRICA AS A MARKET FOR GOODS . FUTURE POPULATION : ITS INCREASE AND CHARACTER . · 543 549 556 559 • · 565 CHAPTER XXVII REFLECTIONS AND FORECASTS SOURCES OF THE ...
... GOLD - FIELDS AND THEIR DURATION WILL MANUFACTURES BE DEVELOPED ? • SOUTH AFRICA AS A MARKET FOR GOODS . FUTURE POPULATION : ITS INCREASE AND CHARACTER . · 543 549 556 559 • · 565 CHAPTER XXVII REFLECTIONS AND FORECASTS SOURCES OF THE ...
Strana 51
... heard that gold and ivory could be obtained . Their forts and trading stations , the first of which dates from 1505 , were G. therefore planted on the coast northward from the Limpopo River E 2 CHAP . VI 51 NATURE AND HISTORY.
... heard that gold and ivory could be obtained . Their forts and trading stations , the first of which dates from 1505 , were G. therefore planted on the coast northward from the Limpopo River E 2 CHAP . VI 51 NATURE AND HISTORY.
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Strana 207 - The South African Republic will conclude no treaty or engagement with any State or nation other than the Orange Free State, nor with any native tribe to the eastward or westward of the Republic, until the same has been approved by her Majesty the Queen.
Strana 241 - ... come near the same. This cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth, and we passed by it the 18.
Strana 439 - Thus the colored man is indispensable to the white man, and is brought into constant relations with him. He is a necessary part of the economic machinery of the country, whether for mining or for manufacture, for tillage or for ranching. But though the black people form the lowest stratum of society, they are not all in a position of personal dependence. A good many Kafirs, especially in the eastern province, own the small farms which they till, and many others are tenants, rendering to their landlord,...
Strana 161 - Vaal," by which the British government" guaranteed to the emigrant farmers beyond the Vaal River the right to manage their own affairs, and to govern themselves according to their own laws without any interference on the part of the British government," with provisions " disclaiming all alliances with any of the coloured nations north of the Vaal River...
Strana 361 - Assembly, who (not being of European origin) are Natives or descendants in the male line of Natives of countries which have not hitherto possessed elective representative institutions founded on the Parliamentary Franchise...
Strana 67 - no more right to claim that the land was made for him than have the wild beasts of the forest who roar after their prey and seek their meat from God'.13 Bryce's view was standard.
Strana 109 - Kafirs, as to most savage races, the world was full of spirits — spirits of the rivers, the mountains, and the woods. Most important were the ghosts of the dead, who had power to injure or to help the living, and who were therefore propitiated by offerings at stated periods, as well as on occasions when their aid was specially desired.
Strana 442 - ... which arises when the native either fails to understand or neglects to obey the command given. The sense of his superior intelligence and energy of will produces in the European a sort of tyrannous spirit, which will not condescend to argue with the native, but overbears him by sheer force, and is prone to resort to physical coercion. Even just men, who in theory have the deepest respect for human rights, are apt to be carried away by this consciousness of superior strength, and to become despotic,...
Strana 203 - Coast wars) not realizing the overwhelming force which could have been brought against them, they fancied themselves entitled to add some measure of contempt to the dislike they already cherished to the English, and they have ever since shown themselves unpleasant neighbours.
Strana 579 - These wretched colonies will all be independent too in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks.