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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... expedition to be prepared carefully and without regard to expense , and since its object was much more than discovery and demanded capacity to negotiate with Asiatic potentates , he passed over Bartholomew Dias and entrusted the ...
... expedition to be prepared carefully and without regard to expense , and since its object was much more than discovery and demanded capacity to negotiate with Asiatic potentates , he passed over Bartholomew Dias and entrusted the ...
Page 98
... expedition was accompanied by 2000 slaves in charge of the baggage waggons and camels , and by a fleet of boats on the river to carry those who fell ill , and it took a month to traverse the fifty leagues from Sena to the country of the ...
... expedition was accompanied by 2000 slaves in charge of the baggage waggons and camels , and by a fleet of boats on the river to carry those who fell ill , and it took a month to traverse the fifty leagues from Sena to the country of the ...
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... expedition against the Transvaal , and , at the close of the Matabele rebellion of 1896 , he obliged the Chartered Company to pay for imperial troops till it could raise a police force of its own to take the place of that which had been ...
... expedition against the Transvaal , and , at the close of the Matabele rebellion of 1896 , he obliged the Chartered Company to pay for imperial troops till it could raise a police force of its own to take the place of that which had been ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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