The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1936 - Great Britain |
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Page 163
... Graaff - Reinet , so that by August 1795 , the control of the Company's government in Cape Town was definitely repudiated over practically the whole wide expanse which had been added to the settlement towards the east by the first ...
... Graaff - Reinet , so that by August 1795 , the control of the Company's government in Cape Town was definitely repudiated over practically the whole wide expanse which had been added to the settlement towards the east by the first ...
Page 164
... Graaff- Reinet , according to Barrow , 1 who visited it soon after the establish- ment of British rule at the Cape ... Graaff - Reinet generally lived much more primitively . Many of them spent a considerable part of their lives on ...
... Graaff- Reinet , according to Barrow , 1 who visited it soon after the establish- ment of British rule at the Cape ... Graaff - Reinet generally lived much more primitively . Many of them spent a considerable part of their lives on ...
Page 186
... Graaff - Reinet were defenceless , the supply of powder and ball from the Cape having been stopped during the revolt ; many of the troops had already returned to the Cape ; and some twenty farms on the Żuurveld lay untenanted.1 A like ...
... Graaff - Reinet were defenceless , the supply of powder and ball from the Cape having been stopped during the revolt ; many of the troops had already returned to the Cape ; and some twenty farms on the Żuurveld lay untenanted.1 A like ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
South African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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