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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SOUTHERN AFRICAN RIVERS 7 The interior of South Africa is an extensive plateau , for the most part from 4000 to 6000 ... from the Orange River to the Zambesi , and from this low - lying belt the land rises gradually in all directions ...
SOUTHERN AFRICAN RIVERS 7 The interior of South Africa is an extensive plateau , for the most part from 4000 to 6000 ... from the Orange River to the Zambesi , and from this low - lying belt the land rises gradually in all directions ...
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By the seventeen - seventies the van of the colonists had reached the Great Fish River . There , for the first time , they met with serious resistance , and there , for virtually fifty years , the eastward advance was stayed , while a ...
By the seventeen - seventies the van of the colonists had reached the Great Fish River . There , for the first time , they met with serious resistance , and there , for virtually fifty years , the eastward advance was stayed , while a ...
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... 606 , 763 Riet River , Orange Free State , 393 Rifle Associations , successors of commandos , 669 Rifles , in S. ... 570-1 , 572 , 596 River Diggings ( diamonds ) , 442 , 448 , 460 , 802–3 Rivers , Harry , Landdrost at Grahamstown ...
... 606 , 763 Riet River , Orange Free State , 393 Rifle Associations , successors of commandos , 669 Rifles , in S. ... 570-1 , 572 , 596 River Diggings ( diamonds ) , 442 , 448 , 460 , 802–3 Rivers , Harry , Landdrost at Grahamstown ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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