The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... northern littoral which flanked the Mediterranean route to the East , and perhaps the Cape Colony , they took little interest in that vast continent . Africa was for them simply something to be circumnavigated on the way to India or a ...
... northern littoral which flanked the Mediterranean route to the East , and perhaps the Cape Colony , they took little interest in that vast continent . Africa was for them simply something to be circumnavigated on the way to India or a ...
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... northern interior , into which English hunters and traders ( Gordon Cumming among them ) were making their way despite the efforts of the Boers to close the country , and in 1849 , in company with Oswell and Murray , he pushed across ...
... northern interior , into which English hunters and traders ( Gordon Cumming among them ) were making their way despite the efforts of the Boers to close the country , and in 1849 , in company with Oswell and Murray , he pushed across ...
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... northern tributary of the Zambesi ) crossed the watershed which separates this from the basin of the Upper Congo , as now known . He was here in an upland region in which the river valleys are rendered almost impassable in the wet ...
... northern tributary of the Zambesi ) crossed the watershed which separates this from the basin of the Upper Congo , as now known . He was here in an upland region in which the river valleys are rendered almost impassable in the wet ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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