The Boer States: Land and PeopleMethuen & Company, 1900 - 313 strán (strany) |
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Strana 10
... hand , they are entirely open to the north and west , as well as to the south - west , where the frontiers are either purely conventional lines , drawn not by nature but by the hand of the diplomatist , or else river beds , such as ...
... hand , they are entirely open to the north and west , as well as to the south - west , where the frontiers are either purely conventional lines , drawn not by nature but by the hand of the diplomatist , or else river beds , such as ...
Strana 13
... hands with German South - west Africa across the Kalahari Desert . Similarly , any further extension beyond the Crocodile north- wards was arrested by the settlement of Southern Rhodesia , now also proclaimed Brit- ish territory right ...
... hands with German South - west Africa across the Kalahari Desert . Similarly , any further extension beyond the Crocodile north- wards was arrested by the settlement of Southern Rhodesia , now also proclaimed Brit- ish territory right ...
Strana 24
... north , on the one hand , by Transvaal , on the other , by the Free State , where the frontier coincides with the Drakenberg range . All the northern parts of the colony , including the valuable coal- fields 24 THE BOER STATES.
... north , on the one hand , by Transvaal , on the other , by the Free State , where the frontier coincides with the Drakenberg range . All the northern parts of the colony , including the valuable coal- fields 24 THE BOER STATES.
Strana 51
... hand to hard toil . The gravedigger also , finding his occupation unprofitable , threw it up in dis- gust , and took to digging for gold . " 1 But this general picture needs qualification . in some respects , and there are drawbacks due ...
... hand to hard toil . The gravedigger also , finding his occupation unprofitable , threw it up in dis- gust , and took to digging for gold . " 1 But this general picture needs qualification . in some respects , and there are drawbacks due ...
Strana 52
... 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 . Pelargoniums grow in thick masse middle - high beneath the rocky walls ...
... 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 . Pelargoniums grow in thick masse middle - high beneath the rocky walls ...
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Africa amongst Author Banken Veld Bantu BARING GOULD Basuto Bechuana Bechuanaland Bloemfontein Boer British Burghers Bushmen Cape Colony Cape Town chief Chronicle College commando Convention Crown 8vo Delagoa Bay Demy 8vo district Drakenberg early east eastern England English extended farmers Fcap feet Fellow Fourth Edition Free Staters French frontier German GIBBINS Government Hence HISTORY Hooge Veld Hottentot Imperial Indian Ocean interest Introduction J. S. Fletcher Johannesburg Kaap Kafir Kimberley land language Limpopo Lord Lydenburg M.A. Illustrated MACLAREN COBBAN mainly Mall Gazette Maps Marico ment Natal nation native northern northwards Olifant Outlanders Oxford plateau political present President Kruger Pretoria Rand Randberg region Robert Barr Second Edition settlement settlers slaves social South African Republic southern square miles steppe story Swazi Swaziland Theal Third Edition tion Transvaal tribes upland Vaal Vaalpens Volksraad volume W. E. NORRIS whole Zambesi Zulu Zululand
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