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... mountain of sorrow " -Heroic women - Hospitality - Paying for his plunder - Our girls , CHAPTER III . FIRST SECOCOENI WAR . Secocoeni's people - Gold - The outbreak - Misunderstood piety— Mistaken impressions - A Bushman's stratagem ...
... mountain of sorrow " -Heroic women - Hospitality - Paying for his plunder - Our girls , CHAPTER III . FIRST SECOCOENI WAR . Secocoeni's people - Gold - The outbreak - Misunderstood piety— Mistaken impressions - A Bushman's stratagem ...
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... Mountain of Sorrow - Heroic women - Hospitality - Paying for his plunder - Our girls . - THE Free State having little to do with this work now drops out of my narrative , except so far as I may require to illustrate some phase of Boer ...
... Mountain of Sorrow - Heroic women - Hospitality - Paying for his plunder - Our girls . - THE Free State having little to do with this work now drops out of my narrative , except so far as I may require to illustrate some phase of Boer ...
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... mountain kloof , it has been constructed without the assistance of skilled labour , and from rough materials found upon or near to its site . Beams do not grow in every direc- tion ready cut and dressed to the builder's hand . Those B ...
... mountain kloof , it has been constructed without the assistance of skilled labour , and from rough materials found upon or near to its site . Beams do not grow in every direc- tion ready cut and dressed to the builder's hand . Those B ...
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... mountain of sor- row . " The " trek " has set its mark even on their house- hold ways . Hundreds of families , down to the present hour , have not abandoned the practice to which they were reduced in the wilds , of sleeping half dressed ...
... mountain of sor- row . " The " trek " has set its mark even on their house- hold ways . Hundreds of families , down to the present hour , have not abandoned the practice to which they were reduced in the wilds , of sleeping half dressed ...
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... Mountains ) confined in the angle between that stream and the Oliphants River , into which it flows . By the Boundary Treaty , armed men were prohibited from crossing the Steelport River , lest they should disturb relations on either ...
... Mountains ) confined in the angle between that stream and the Oliphants River , into which it flows . By the Boundary Treaty , armed men were prohibited from crossing the Steelport River , lest they should disturb relations on either ...
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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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