The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South AfricaWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1881 - 323 páginas |
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... living , was not equalled by the value of the ivory and interior pro- duce got in , and the place collapsed . Fever played its part in thinning out the inhabitants ; and no doubt Kafir neigh- bours were troublesome at times ; but if ...
... living , was not equalled by the value of the ivory and interior pro- duce got in , and the place collapsed . Fever played its part in thinning out the inhabitants ; and no doubt Kafir neigh- bours were troublesome at times ; but if ...
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... living by farm - work of one sort or another ; and they have all houses , habitable , and , under the circumstances of the country , fairly comfortable . It would appear to an impartial investigator to be little less than miraculous how ...
... living by farm - work of one sort or another ; and they have all houses , habitable , and , under the circumstances of the country , fairly comfortable . It would appear to an impartial investigator to be little less than miraculous how ...
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... living upon earthen floors hardened with ant - heaps . Everything that the Boer required of comfort or luxury had to be brought from a distance . Even now , most of the com- modities consumed by him are imported , reaching his hands ...
... living upon earthen floors hardened with ant - heaps . Everything that the Boer required of comfort or luxury had to be brought from a distance . Even now , most of the com- modities consumed by him are imported , reaching his hands ...
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... living away from the coast , whose houses are quite as open to reproach , on the grounds of clay floors and ugliness , as are the worst of those of the Boers . Yet these farmers had advan- tages the Boers never had . They had come ...
... living away from the coast , whose houses are quite as open to reproach , on the grounds of clay floors and ugliness , as are the worst of those of the Boers . Yet these farmers had advan- tages the Boers never had . They had come ...
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... living . He told the chief that a brass cannon could be made ; and to that end induced him to purchase no less than 12,000 lb. weight of expensive brass and copper wire , promising that by the time all the material would be col- lected ...
... living . He told the chief that a brass cannon could be made ; and to that end induced him to purchase no less than 12,000 lb. weight of expensive brass and copper wire , promising that by the time all the material would be col- lected ...
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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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