The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South AfricaWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1881 - 323 páginas |
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... fire , 99 CHAPTER XV . STIRRING EVENTS - SIR THEOPHILUS AND HOW HE DID IT . National paralysis - Foredoomed - Too late - The reaction — Our first mistake - A sinister proposition - Arming the blacks- Illegal armaments , CHAPTER XVI ...
... fire , 99 CHAPTER XV . STIRRING EVENTS - SIR THEOPHILUS AND HOW HE DID IT . National paralysis - Foredoomed - Too late - The reaction — Our first mistake - A sinister proposition - Arming the blacks- Illegal armaments , CHAPTER XVI ...
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... fires , the labours of the day being at an end , the household devotes itself to the innocent pleasures of social and domestic intercourse . With the Boer , the sun being set , and the cattle and stock impounded in their kraals and ...
... fires , the labours of the day being at an end , the household devotes itself to the innocent pleasures of social and domestic intercourse . With the Boer , the sun being set , and the cattle and stock impounded in their kraals and ...
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... fire of the angles from whence they sprang . The kraal or cattle - enclosure had its own gateway and drawbridge . At the end of the kraal furthest from the angular fort was a sort of irregular redoubt , with a deep ditch and mud walls ...
... fire of the angles from whence they sprang . The kraal or cattle - enclosure had its own gateway and drawbridge . At the end of the kraal furthest from the angular fort was a sort of irregular redoubt , with a deep ditch and mud walls ...
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... fires of the enemy's scouts , who , from their sheer elevation of 1700 feet , watched the fields and the fort below . To the east , vast piles of mountains cut the sky - line , ending far off in their parent mass , the 1 Magnet Heights ...
... fires of the enemy's scouts , who , from their sheer elevation of 1700 feet , watched the fields and the fort below . To the east , vast piles of mountains cut the sky - line , ending far off in their parent mass , the 1 Magnet Heights ...
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... fires and smokes constantly told of the presence of a wander- ing and watchful foe . The fort being commenced , the great Commando con- tinued its march , and , as it has no more concern with us , I shall follow it no farther . Von ...
... fires and smokes constantly told of the presence of a wander- ing and watchful foe . The fort being commenced , the great Commando con- tinued its march , and , as it has no more concern with us , I shall follow it no farther . Von ...
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The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South Africa Alfred Aylward Visualização integral - 1881 |
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amongst annexation appearance armed arrived authority believe body Boers British brought called Cape Captain cattle cause chief circumstances Clarke cloth colonial Commissioner course Crown 8vo danger direction district doubt Dutch Edition enemy England English existence fact farmers farms Fields fight fire followed force fort give Gold Government ground hand History hope horses hour Illustrations inhabitants interest Kafirs known land late less living Lydenberg Majesty's matter means miles mountain Natal native nature necessary never officers once Orange party peace persons position Post present Pretoria reached reason Republic respect result River rule Secocoeni seen sent Shepstone side Sir Theophilus South Africa taken territory tion Transvaal tribes turn vols volunteers whole Zulus
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