The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South AfricaWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1881 - 323 páginas |
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... living , was not equalled by the value of the ivory and interior pro- duce got in , and the place collapsed . Fever played its part in thinning out the inhabitants ; and no doubt Kafir neigh- bours were troublesome at times ; but if ...
... living , was not equalled by the value of the ivory and interior pro- duce got in , and the place collapsed . Fever played its part in thinning out the inhabitants ; and no doubt Kafir neigh- bours were troublesome at times ; but if ...
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... living by farm - work of one sort or another ; and they have all houses , habitable , and , under the circumstances of the country , fairly comfortable . It would appear to an impartial investigator to be little less than miraculous how ...
... living by farm - work of one sort or another ; and they have all houses , habitable , and , under the circumstances of the country , fairly comfortable . It would appear to an impartial investigator to be little less than miraculous how ...
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... living upon earthen floors hardened with ant - heaps . Everything that the Boer required of comfort or luxury had to be brought from a distance . Even now , most of the com- modities consumed by him are imported , reaching his hands ...
... living upon earthen floors hardened with ant - heaps . Everything that the Boer required of comfort or luxury had to be brought from a distance . Even now , most of the com- modities consumed by him are imported , reaching his hands ...
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... living away from the coast , whose houses are quite as open to reproach , on the grounds of clay floors and ugliness , as are the worst of those of the Boers . Yet these farmers had advan- tages the Boers never had . They had come ...
... living away from the coast , whose houses are quite as open to reproach , on the grounds of clay floors and ugliness , as are the worst of those of the Boers . Yet these farmers had advan- tages the Boers never had . They had come ...
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... living . He told the chief that a brass cannon could be made ; and to that end induced him to purchase no less than 12,000 lb. weight of expensive brass and copper wire , promising that by the time all the material would be col- lected ...
... living . He told the chief that a brass cannon could be made ; and to that end induced him to purchase no less than 12,000 lb. weight of expensive brass and copper wire , promising that by the time all the material would be col- lected ...
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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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The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South Africa Alfred Aylward Visualização integral - 1878 |
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