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... the most debasing slavery , and consti- tuting for the settlers a great and ever - increasing danger . It is needless to record here the attempts , no doubt well THE TRANSVAAL TREATY . 9 meaning and kindly , which 8 HISTORY OF THE BOERS .
... the most debasing slavery , and consti- tuting for the settlers a great and ever - increasing danger . It is needless to record here the attempts , no doubt well THE TRANSVAAL TREATY . 9 meaning and kindly , which 8 HISTORY OF THE BOERS .
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... doubt Kafir neigh- bours were troublesome at times ; but if " it had paid " on the old scale , Schoemansdal would not have failed to retain a population . Like the Gold Fields under our new Govern- ment , Zoutpansberg was deserted ...
... doubt Kafir neigh- bours were troublesome at times ; but if " it had paid " on the old scale , Schoemansdal would not have failed to retain a population . Like the Gold Fields under our new Govern- ment , Zoutpansberg was deserted ...
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... doubt whatever that these peasant proprietors will , ere long , place themselves on a level with , if not ahead of , races labouring under no such terrible disabilities as they have been subject to during their forty - four years of ...
... doubt whatever that these peasant proprietors will , ere long , place themselves on a level with , if not ahead of , races labouring under no such terrible disabilities as they have been subject to during their forty - four years of ...
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... doubt , has in some directions excellent results , but it unfits many young men for war and border service , weakening terribly the available force of the farm- ing population . Many of the girls are extremely pretty , and I have found ...
... doubt , has in some directions excellent results , but it unfits many young men for war and border service , weakening terribly the available force of the farm- ing population . Many of the girls are extremely pretty , and I have found ...
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... doubt and uncertainty for weeks after the great Commando had left the country , and the abandonment of the campaign by what is most unjustly termed the flight of the farmers , which occurred on the 2d of August 1876 . It was not until ...
... doubt and uncertainty for weeks after the great Commando had left the country , and the abandonment of the campaign by what is most unjustly termed the flight of the farmers , which occurred on the 2d of August 1876 . It was not until ...
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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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