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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There are indeed indications that one or two bold adventurers sailed to some point south of Madagascar in the fourteenth century , but the evidence is very vague.1 At any rate , none passed the southernmost point of Africa , or , so far ...
There are indeed indications that one or two bold adventurers sailed to some point south of Madagascar in the fourteenth century , but the evidence is very vague.1 At any rate , none passed the southernmost point of Africa , or , so far ...
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In Angola only thirty - six friars and twenty - nine secular priests were left by the end of the century , half of whom lived in Loanda . Most of the fifty churches and chapels scattered over the interior had fallen into ruin ; as a ...
In Angola only thirty - six friars and twenty - nine secular priests were left by the end of the century , half of whom lived in Loanda . Most of the fifty churches and chapels scattered over the interior had fallen into ruin ; as a ...
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The history of the Dutch East India Company during the first three - quarters of the eighteenth century is the uninspiring record of a great and once vigorous and enterprising organisation getting set in its ways , jealously guarding ...
The history of the Dutch East India Company during the first three - quarters of the eighteenth century is the uninspiring record of a great and once vigorous and enterprising organisation getting set in its ways , jealously guarding ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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