The Boer States: Land and PeopleMethuen & Company, 1900 - 313 strán (strany) |
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Strana 35
... perhaps some- what in the nature of a tour de force , for it has not been followed by others , and for all practical purposes the Limpopo would appear to be accessible to steamers of moderate draft for little more than fifty or sixty ...
... perhaps some- what in the nature of a tour de force , for it has not been followed by others , and for all practical purposes the Limpopo would appear to be accessible to steamers of moderate draft for little more than fifty or sixty ...
Strana 40
... perhaps be inferred from the amazing increase in the output from year to year , as shown in the subjoined table of the gold winnings for the whole of Transvaal between the years 1884 and 1897 : 1- 1 Statesman's Year Book , 1899 , p ...
... perhaps be inferred from the amazing increase in the output from year to year , as shown in the subjoined table of the gold winnings for the whole of Transvaal between the years 1884 and 1897 : 1- 1 Statesman's Year Book , 1899 , p ...
Strana 42
... rediscovered those of the Transvaal which were perhaps also known to and worked by the ancient Himyarites or other Semitic peoples from South Arabia . In any case , the fact that extensive mining operations were here carried on in.
... rediscovered those of the Transvaal which were perhaps also known to and worked by the ancient Himyarites or other Semitic peoples from South Arabia . In any case , the fact that extensive mining operations were here carried on in.
Strana 56
... perhaps eighty miles from the river banks , and that is the reason why explorers before venturing into this deadly tract have to outspan , and send back their teams of oxen , their horses , and all other domestic animals which succumb ...
... perhaps eighty miles from the river banks , and that is the reason why explorers before venturing into this deadly tract have to outspan , and send back their teams of oxen , their horses , and all other domestic animals which succumb ...
Strana 57
... civilised man to introduce domestic animals into the Limpopo valley . " 1 Another winged pest , perhaps even more 1 Reclus , English ed . , xiii . p . 208 . to be dreaded , is the locust , which sometimes BOER STATES - FAUNA 57.
... civilised man to introduce domestic animals into the Limpopo valley . " 1 Another winged pest , perhaps even more 1 Reclus , English ed . , xiii . p . 208 . to be dreaded , is the locust , which sometimes BOER STATES - FAUNA 57.
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