The Boer States: Land and PeopleMethuen & Company, 1900 - 313 strán (strany) |
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... caused by government mono- polies , such as that of the dynamite which is required for blasting purposes , and the heavy charges for which can be met only by com- panies working in a large way . Hence the closing of many small mines ...
... caused by government mono- polies , such as that of the dynamite which is required for blasting purposes , and the heavy charges for which can be met only by com- panies working in a large way . Hence the closing of many small mines ...
Strana 51
... causes , which make several districts , and especially a great part of the Limpopo valley , at present scarcely suitable for permanent settlement . Intermittent or malarious fevers are endemic along the low- lying marshy banks of the ...
... causes , which make several districts , and especially a great part of the Limpopo valley , at present scarcely suitable for permanent settlement . Intermittent or malarious fevers are endemic along the low- lying marshy banks of the ...
Strana 52
... causes , which may modified but never entirely removed by th hand of man . When the rain falls on th seaward slopes of the encircling upland " the open valleys and the deeper kloo become as by magic carpeted with wil flowers ...
... causes , which may modified but never entirely removed by th hand of man . When the rain falls on th seaward slopes of the encircling upland " the open valleys and the deeper kloo become as by magic carpeted with wil flowers ...
Strana 80
... caused by the settlers at the Cape turning farmers , and extending the area of the cultivated lands , at which the Hottentots took umbrage , fearing to be thus deprived of their pasturage , and with it their cattle , their only means of ...
... caused by the settlers at the Cape turning farmers , and extending the area of the cultivated lands , at which the Hottentots took umbrage , fearing to be thus deprived of their pasturage , and with it their cattle , their only means of ...
Strana 84
... caused temporary madness , and ended by shattering the nerves . In Cape Colony proper , the Gonaqua , i.e. " Borderers , " a half - caste Hottentot - Bantu people who had long dwelt about the border- lands of the two races , generally ...
... caused temporary madness , and ended by shattering the nerves . In Cape Colony proper , the Gonaqua , i.e. " Borderers , " a half - caste Hottentot - Bantu people who had long dwelt about the border- lands of the two races , generally ...
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