The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South AfricaWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1881 - 323 páginas |
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... rock might swarm with enemies . A man might reasonably expect wounds or death at any moment . The Englishman heard the Boer praying to himself , or rather to God , as he rode along— praying that God would deliver him from the dangers of ...
... rock might swarm with enemies . A man might reasonably expect wounds or death at any moment . The Englishman heard the Boer praying to himself , or rather to God , as he rode along— praying that God would deliver him from the dangers of ...
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... rocks , under fearful precipices , past wild and gor- geous hollows rank with semi - tropical vegetation , through ... rock towards Fort Burgers . High on its rocky ter- races eternally smoked the fires of the enemy's scouts , who , from ...
... rocks , under fearful precipices , past wild and gor- geous hollows rank with semi - tropical vegetation , through ... rock towards Fort Burgers . High on its rocky ter- races eternally smoked the fires of the enemy's scouts , who , from ...
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... rocks were to be seen in endless variety . And on these rocky points , and deep in those wooded glens , fires and smokes constantly told of the presence of a wander- ing and watchful foe . The fort being commenced , the great Commando ...
... rocks were to be seen in endless variety . And on these rocky points , and deep in those wooded glens , fires and smokes constantly told of the presence of a wander- ing and watchful foe . The fort being commenced , the great Commando ...
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... rocks that stones could be thrown from them far over it . On the other side of the road spread an almost impenetrable jungle , as far as the Speckboom , about four miles off . At this nasty place an ambush was laid , but the volunteers ...
... rocks that stones could be thrown from them far over it . On the other side of the road spread an almost impenetrable jungle , as far as the Speckboom , about four miles off . At this nasty place an ambush was laid , but the volunteers ...
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... rock by the river , brought him water , and stubbornly awaited death . But although the Kafirs often threatened him , they molested him no more . Whether they feared that lonely grimy European , clad only in shirt and trousers ...
... rock by the river , brought him water , and stubbornly awaited death . But although the Kafirs often threatened him , they molested him no more . Whether they feared that lonely grimy European , clad only in shirt and trousers ...
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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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