The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South AfricaWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1881 - 323 páginas |
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... Horse - sickness- " Salted " horses - How to start properly - Whipping a lion - Bushcraft - A hunter killed -Diminution in game - Game or wild beasts - South African sportsmen - Snakes and swords - Wolves and dogs - How to choose horses ...
... Horse - sickness- " Salted " horses - How to start properly - Whipping a lion - Bushcraft - A hunter killed -Diminution in game - Game or wild beasts - South African sportsmen - Snakes and swords - Wolves and dogs - How to choose horses ...
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... horses ; and all other things being equal , a farmer will prefer to live where he can ride to where he must walk . Wheat , when grown , had to be brought down by waggon to Natal - a distance of 400 miles - to find a market . This became ...
... horses ; and all other things being equal , a farmer will prefer to live where he can ride to where he must walk . Wheat , when grown , had to be brought down by waggon to Natal - a distance of 400 miles - to find a market . This became ...
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... horses , cattle , sheep , goats , and some little furniture . Thus a domestic character was given to the movement from its very initiation , which made it differ , in an immeasurable degree , from the pouring forth of hordes of young ...
... horses , cattle , sheep , goats , and some little furniture . Thus a domestic character was given to the movement from its very initiation , which made it differ , in an immeasurable degree , from the pouring forth of hordes of young ...
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... horses , told me " that he was not only most kindly welcomed and made comfortable all along his road , but that he could not prevail upon his Boer entertainers to accept payment , even for the feeds supplied to his horses . " Of course ...
... horses , told me " that he was not only most kindly welcomed and made comfortable all along his road , but that he could not prevail upon his Boer entertainers to accept payment , even for the feeds supplied to his horses . " Of course ...
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... horses for this purchase . The thieves then pre- tended to remember that a portion of the breech — that con- taining the touch - hole — should have let into it a mass of solid silver to prevent its burning away too readily . Ac ...
... horses for this purchase . The thieves then pre- tended to remember that a portion of the breech — that con- taining the touch - hole — should have let into it a mass of solid silver to prevent its burning away too readily . Ac ...
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The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South Africa Alfred Aylward Visualização integral - 1881 |
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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