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... shot down , and annexed repeatedly - all their efforts for their own emancipation from a rule which they never sought , being defeated by brute force . It is now not denied by impartial historians , that when the Boers entered Natal ...
... shot down , and annexed repeatedly - all their efforts for their own emancipation from a rule which they never sought , being defeated by brute force . It is now not denied by impartial historians , that when the Boers entered Natal ...
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... shot in each season came to hand . Even this yearly supply became scantier as the game got driven further and further back , until , finally , the cost of bringing goods so vast a journey , and of living , was not equalled by the value ...
... shot in each season came to hand . Even this yearly supply became scantier as the game got driven further and further back , until , finally , the cost of bringing goods so vast a journey , and of living , was not equalled by the value ...
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... shot - holes . If one also considers that in a majority of instances , boards suitable for flooring , after being purchased far away in Natal or the Cape Colony , had then to be conveyed by waggons , at an immense expenditure of ...
... shot - holes . If one also considers that in a majority of instances , boards suitable for flooring , after being purchased far away in Natal or the Cape Colony , had then to be conveyed by waggons , at an immense expenditure of ...
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... shot dead in the President's waggon — in this so- called disgraceful flight . This phase of the question has been very clearly and accurately referred to in a letter , dated " Albemarle Hotel , 10th July 1878 , " written by the ...
... shot dead in the President's waggon — in this so- called disgraceful flight . This phase of the question has been very clearly and accurately referred to in a letter , dated " Albemarle Hotel , 10th July 1878 , " written by the ...
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... shot through the stomach , and calling to Kuhneisen not to desert him . Now ensued an episode worthy of all honour . Alone , amongst a thousand enemies , Adolph Kuhneisen fought on , till the Kafirs , believing him to be a demon ...
... shot through the stomach , and calling to Kuhneisen not to desert him . Now ensued an episode worthy of all honour . Alone , amongst a thousand enemies , Adolph Kuhneisen fought on , till the Kafirs , believing him to be a demon ...
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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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