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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For a year or so afterwards he lived in her band , hunting for her parents , but once she had borne him a child he would move with her back to his former home . Owing largely to lack of other suitable foods , children were not weaned ...
For a year or so afterwards he lived in her band , hunting for her parents , but once she had borne him a child he would move with her back to his former home . Owing largely to lack of other suitable foods , children were not weaned ...
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Somerset landed on the following morning , presented his commission , and demanded to be sworn in at once . Cradock protested that he must continue in office for a few days to wind up an accumulation of administrative business .
Somerset landed on the following morning , presented his commission , and demanded to be sworn in at once . Cradock protested that he must continue in office for a few days to wind up an accumulation of administrative business .
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He at once despatched a cruiser from Zanzibar to Delagoa Bay and proposed to follow this up with troops to assert a protectorate over the Transvaal . Dissuaded with much difficulty from this desperate venture , he none the less sent a ...
He at once despatched a cruiser from Zanzibar to Delagoa Bay and proposed to follow this up with troops to assert a protectorate over the Transvaal . Dissuaded with much difficulty from this desperate venture , he none the less sent a ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Smutss offer to S Rhodesia 1921 | 4 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
Copyright | |
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