The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1963 - Great Britain |
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... Persia and the Levant , and in ancient as in Islamic times they tried to keep their own waters closed and secret ... Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea - was a desperate ad- venture into unknown waters . There was no southward lure for ...
... Persia and the Levant , and in ancient as in Islamic times they tried to keep their own waters closed and secret ... Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea - was a desperate ad- venture into unknown waters . There was no southward lure for ...
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... Persian king Xerxes ( 485-465 B.C. ) , was sent out to sail round Africa from the Pillars of Heracles to the Red Sea ... Persians ceased , the former , who hitherto had known nothing beyond the southern end of the Red Sea , began to ...
... Persian king Xerxes ( 485-465 B.C. ) , was sent out to sail round Africa from the Pillars of Heracles to the Red Sea ... Persians ceased , the former , who hitherto had known nothing beyond the southern end of the Red Sea , began to ...
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... Persians and Indians were , by using the monsoons , visiting East Africa as far as Sofala , where the Bush- men traded ... Persian Muslims from Ormuz , under one Ali , settled at Kilwa and showed themselves bitter enemies of the Arabs ...
... Persians and Indians were , by using the monsoons , visiting East Africa as far as Sofala , where the Bush- men traded ... Persian Muslims from Ormuz , under one Ali , settled at Kilwa and showed themselves bitter enemies of the Arabs ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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