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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... farmers were inspected regularly to see that enough wheat was being grown , to estimate crops and to prevent fraud . Nevertheless it happened more than once that farmers , after harvesting their wheat , allowed it to rot in the stacks ...
... farmers were inspected regularly to see that enough wheat was being grown , to estimate crops and to prevent fraud . Nevertheless it happened more than once that farmers , after harvesting their wheat , allowed it to rot in the stacks ...
Page 140
... farmers , was strictly prohibited by the Company , which preferred to make its profits on European spirits . Further , Simon van der Stel's experimental exports of dried meat had come to nothing . The great flocks of fat - tailed sheep ...
... farmers , was strictly prohibited by the Company , which preferred to make its profits on European spirits . Further , Simon van der Stel's experimental exports of dried meat had come to nothing . The great flocks of fat - tailed sheep ...
Page 146
... farmers ' movement , sprung from farmers ' grievances . The town burghers , a parasitic community , which " lived from God and the stranger " , had no hand in it . Van der Stel insisted on all occasions that it was de boeren ( the ...
... farmers ' movement , sprung from farmers ' grievances . The town burghers , a parasitic community , which " lived from God and the stranger " , had no hand in it . Van der Stel insisted on all occasions that it was de boeren ( the ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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