The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South AfricaWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1881 - 323 páginas |
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... position- White witchcraft - Amenities of Kafir war - An error of judg- ment - Soldier's war - dance - A contrast , 113 CHAPTER X. OUR TAME KAFIRS . Value of language - Slaves or servants - A bond of gratitude- Teaching him manners— -Mr ...
... position- White witchcraft - Amenities of Kafir war - An error of judg- ment - Soldier's war - dance - A contrast , 113 CHAPTER X. OUR TAME KAFIRS . Value of language - Slaves or servants - A bond of gratitude- Teaching him manners— -Mr ...
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... position of the Boers , in such a way as to lead intelligent readers to form anything like a fairly accurate mind - picture of them as a people . This it is my pleasing duty to endeavour to do ; and bringing , as I can , ten years ...
... position of the Boers , in such a way as to lead intelligent readers to form anything like a fairly accurate mind - picture of them as a people . This it is my pleasing duty to endeavour to do ; and bringing , as I can , ten years ...
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... position to try to better themselves in whatever part of the world they pleased ? The same sort of removal takes place every day from Great Britain to the United States . Is there any effectual means of arresting persons determined to ...
... position to try to better themselves in whatever part of the world they pleased ? The same sort of removal takes place every day from Great Britain to the United States . Is there any effectual means of arresting persons determined to ...
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... position called Boom Plaats . Lives were lost ; and the result , of course , was a still further humiliation of the Dutch and a still stronger reassertion of British authority . Pretorius , the Boer commander , fled to the far Transvaal ...
... position called Boom Plaats . Lives were lost ; and the result , of course , was a still further humiliation of the Dutch and a still stronger reassertion of British authority . Pretorius , the Boer commander , fled to the far Transvaal ...
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... position almost impinges upon the main road from Middleburg to Lydenberg . As the chief thus increased the number of his people , he was favoured in his project for extending his territory , by natural circumstances , which con- spired ...
... position almost impinges upon the main road from Middleburg to Lydenberg . As the chief thus increased the number of his people , he was favoured in his project for extending his territory , by natural circumstances , which con- spired ...
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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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