The Transvaal of To-day: War, Witchcraft, Sport, and Spoils in South AfricaWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1881 - 323 páginas |
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... native - Mapoch and the sheriff- Murder of Bell - The new police - The outbreak - Evacuation of Fort Weeber - The fever of 1878 - Massacre at Masselle- room - Fort Mamalube , CHAPTER XVIII . FIGHTS AND FAILURES . Fatal affray at Magnet ...
... native - Mapoch and the sheriff- Murder of Bell - The new police - The outbreak - Evacuation of Fort Weeber - The fever of 1878 - Massacre at Masselle- room - Fort Mamalube , CHAPTER XVIII . FIGHTS AND FAILURES . Fatal affray at Magnet ...
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... native governments , and exterminate such of their subjects as did not choose to come under his rule . The fame of his troops spread far and wide ; tribe after tribe was invaded , routed , and put to death by them , either by firing ...
... native governments , and exterminate such of their subjects as did not choose to come under his rule . The fame of his troops spread far and wide ; tribe after tribe was invaded , routed , and put to death by them , either by firing ...
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... native Attila , be- tween 1812 and 1828. His death was , as might be expected , a violent one . Now it can hardly be said that to occupy a country which had no inhabitants and no government , and to snatch it from the power of such a ...
... native Attila , be- tween 1812 and 1828. His death was , as might be expected , a violent one . Now it can hardly be said that to occupy a country which had no inhabitants and no government , and to snatch it from the power of such a ...
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... natives encompassing them the laws which should prevail . These laws were similar in character to the regulations which applied , under the old Dutch government , to the coloured class in servitude within the colony - namely , that they ...
... natives encompassing them the laws which should prevail . These laws were similar in character to the regulations which applied , under the old Dutch government , to the coloured class in servitude within the colony - namely , that they ...
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... natives to the detriment of the new Republic ; and the agreements for reciprocations , exchange of prisoners , recog ... native hostility , and encouraged the suggested negotiations . They at once made use of the power provisionally ...
... natives to the detriment of the new Republic ; and the agreements for reciprocations , exchange of prisoners , recog ... native hostility , and encouraged the suggested negotiations . They at once made use of the power provisionally ...
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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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