The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South AfricaWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1881 - 323 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 14
Página 10
... Command- ant - General . The meeting took place near the Sand River on the 17th January 1852 , when a convention was entered into on behalf of her Majesty , allowing the community north of the Vaal River to form such government as might ...
... Command- ant - General . The meeting took place near the Sand River on the 17th January 1852 , when a convention was entered into on behalf of her Majesty , allowing the community north of the Vaal River to form such government as might ...
Página 52
... command . The Government had failed to secure the troop - horses promised us , so we left Pretoria without them . The treasury at the time was nearly empty . I had to pay two men , and make some advances ; but all Government could ...
... command . The Government had failed to secure the troop - horses promised us , so we left Pretoria without them . The treasury at the time was nearly empty . I had to pay two men , and make some advances ; but all Government could ...
Página 59
... command of them , however , who was now in a very wavering state of mind , fell back a few hundred yards , instead of going to the relief of his com- mander . Some of the men , indignant at this , broke from the ranks and rushed to the ...
... command of them , however , who was now in a very wavering state of mind , fell back a few hundred yards , instead of going to the relief of his com- mander . Some of the men , indignant at this , broke from the ranks and rushed to the ...
Página 60
... command of the spies , had penetrated to the caves beyond the last village and made a dash for the cattle , which , all through the fight , were heard " FAITHFUL TO THE LAST . " 61 lowing and 60 LYDENBERG VOLUNTEER CORPS .
... command of the spies , had penetrated to the caves beyond the last village and made a dash for the cattle , which , all through the fight , were heard " FAITHFUL TO THE LAST . " 61 lowing and 60 LYDENBERG VOLUNTEER CORPS .
Página 62
... command , which shortly afterwards stood as follows : - Commandant - Alfred Aylward ; Lieutenants — T . L. White , P. Bayley , Geo . Eckersley , Otto von Steitencron ; Artillery Captain - Otto Reidel ; Medical Officer - Edward Ashton ...
... command , which shortly afterwards stood as follows : - Commandant - Alfred Aylward ; Lieutenants — T . L. White , P. Bayley , Geo . Eckersley , Otto von Steitencron ; Artillery Captain - Otto Reidel ; Medical Officer - Edward Ashton ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
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 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
Página 8 - CHARTERIS. Canonicity ; or, Early Testimonies to the Existence and Use of the Books of the New Testament. Based on Kirchhoffer's
Página 7 - Second Edition. Crown 8vo, with numerous Illustrations, 7s. 6d. Cultivated Plants : Their Propagation and Improvement. Including Natural and Artificial Hybridisation, Raising from Seed, Cuttings, and Layers, Grafting and Budding, as applied to the Families and Genera in Cultivation. Crown 8vo. with numerous Illustrations, 12s. 6d. BURTON. The History of Scotland : From Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection.
Página 6 - Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. BOSCOBEL TRACTS. Relating to the Escape of Charles the Second after the Battle of Worcester, and his subsequent Adventures. Edited by J. HUGHES, Esq., AM A New Edition, with additional Notes and Illustrations, including Communications from the Rev. RH BARHAM, Author of the
Página 16 - MINTO. A Manual of English Prose Literature, Biographical and Critical : designed mainly to show Characteristics of Style. By W. MINTO, MA, Professor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen.
Página 12 - Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. By Professor VEITCH of the University of Glasgow. 8vo, with Portrait, i8s. Sir William Hamilton : The Man and his Philosophy. Two Lectures Delivered before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, January and February 1883.
Página 16 - MARSHMAN. History of India. From the Earliest Period to the Close of the India Company's Government ; with an Epitome of Subsequent Events. By JOHN CLARK MARSHMAN, CSI Abridged from the Author's larger work. Second Edition, revised. Crown 8vo, with Map, 6s. 6d. MARTIN. Goethe's Faust. Part I. Translated by Sir THEODORE MARTIN, KCB Second Ed., crown 8vo, 6s. Ninth Ed., fcap. 8vo, 3s. 6d. Goethe's Faust. Part II. Translated into English Verse.
Página 24 - VIRGIL. The ^Eneid of Virgil. Translated in English Blank Verse by GK RICKARDS, MA, and Lord RAVENSWORTH. 2 vols. fcap. 8vo, 10s.
Página 15 - Thousand, revised to the present time. Crown 8vo, pp. 300, 3s. The Intermediate Geography. Intended as an Intermediate Book between the Author's ' Outlines of Geography/ and
Página 6 - BROWN. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works. By JOHN CROMBIE BROWN. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. BROWN. A Manual of Botany, Anatomical and Physiological.
Página 14 - Professor of Public Law and of the Law of Nature and Nations in the University of Edinburgh. New Edition, Revised and much Enlarged. Svo, 18s. The Institutes of the Law of Nations. A Treatise of the Jural Relation of Separate Political Communities.