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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... possible for sailors to follow nearly identical routes outward and homeward at the very time that the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 took away the bulk of the eastern trade . The coast of South Africa is not favourable for traffic ...
... possible for sailors to follow nearly identical routes outward and homeward at the very time that the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 took away the bulk of the eastern trade . The coast of South Africa is not favourable for traffic ...
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... possible price , and ( the Act of Navigation notwithstanding ) in the best possible market . The Cape colonist was to be forced to grow what the Company wanted , and to sell all his produce to the Company alone , and that at prices to ...
... possible price , and ( the Act of Navigation notwithstanding ) in the best possible market . The Cape colonist was to be forced to grow what the Company wanted , and to sell all his produce to the Company alone , and that at prices to ...
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... possible " , and to abolish its commercial dependence upon the East India Company.1 However much Henry Dundas might agree with this last point , in an important declaration of policy he imposed a definite veto on Yonge's system of ...
... possible " , and to abolish its commercial dependence upon the East India Company.1 However much Henry Dundas might agree with this last point , in an important declaration of policy he imposed a definite veto on Yonge's system of ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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