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... KAFIRS . Boundary - lines - The Zulus of Zululand - Ecclesiastical opinion- Polygamy - The Amaswazi - A white chief , CHAPTER IX . SECOCOENI . The present quarrel - Death of Jonathan - A critical position- White witchcraft - Amenities ...
... KAFIRS . Boundary - lines - The Zulus of Zululand - Ecclesiastical opinion- Polygamy - The Amaswazi - A white chief , CHAPTER IX . SECOCOENI . The present quarrel - Death of Jonathan - A critical position- White witchcraft - Amenities ...
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... Kafirs were permitted to flock into Natal ; and the country by 1848 showed visible symptoms . of becoming what it now is a colony under European gov- ernment , but in which all the abominations of paganism flourish , to the disgust of ...
... Kafirs were permitted to flock into Natal ; and the country by 1848 showed visible symptoms . of becoming what it now is a colony under European gov- ernment , but in which all the abominations of paganism flourish , to the disgust of ...
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... Kafirs , during the earlier days of their independence , I come now to the men themselves , and their habits and cus- toms as I found them . One indelible feature has by their long and continuous wanderings been impressed upon their ...
... Kafirs , during the earlier days of their independence , I come now to the men themselves , and their habits and cus- toms as I found them . One indelible feature has by their long and continuous wanderings been impressed upon their ...
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... Kafirs might arouse suspicion . The unsuspecting chief gave sixteen horses for this purchase . The thieves then pre- tended to remember that a portion of the breech - that con- taining the touch - hole - should have let into it a mass ...
... Kafirs might arouse suspicion . The unsuspecting chief gave sixteen horses for this purchase . The thieves then pre- tended to remember that a portion of the breech - that con- taining the touch - hole - should have let into it a mass ...
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... Kafirs , Can- nibals , Mambeyers , and other small knots of men from broken tribes , or sections that had split off from greater tribes , hav- ing quarrelled with their supreme chief . Each of these frag- ments , seeking refuge with ...
... Kafirs , Can- nibals , Mambeyers , and other small knots of men from broken tribes , or sections that had split off from greater tribes , hav- ing quarrelled with their supreme chief . Each of these frag- ments , seeking refuge with ...
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The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South Africa Alfred Aylward Visualização integral - 1878 |
The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South Africa Alfred Aylward Visualização integral - 1878 |
The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South Africa Alfred Aylward Visualização integral - 1878 |
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amongst annexation Anthony Trollope armed attack authority Basutos Boers British Government Burgers bush Cape Colony Captain Clarke cattle chief civilisation cloth colonists command corps course Crown 8vo danger Delagoa Bay Diamond Fields district Drakensberg Dutch Eckersley emigrant farmers enemy England English European fact farms Fcap fever fight fire force Gold Fields Gunn hand honour horses Illustrations inhabitants Kafirland Kafirs Kloof kraal Kruger's Post land Landdrost living Lord Carnarvon Lydenberg Volunteer Majesty's Government ment miles mountain Natal native neighbouring never Oliphants Orange River Government Origstadt party peace persons Pilgrim's Rest position Post 8vo Pretoria proclamation reason Republic rocks Schlieckmann Scotland Secocoeni shot Sir Theophilus Shepstone South Africa South African Republic Special Commissioner Steelport territory tion Transvaal tribes Trollope troops utterly Vaal River valley village Volksraad vols waggon Weeber whilst Zulus
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