The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... TREK , 1835-1848 THE Great Trek of the Cape frontiersmen is still the central event in South Africa's history . It can be distinguished both from the slow dispersion of the sheep and cattle farmers that had preceded it since the last ...
... TREK , 1835-1848 THE Great Trek of the Cape frontiersmen is still the central event in South Africa's history . It can be distinguished both from the slow dispersion of the sheep and cattle farmers that had preceded it since the last ...
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... trek parties came in to the rendezvous at Thaba Nchu , numbering up to a hundred waggons at a time , led by the chief local official or the patriarch of the 1 For a detailed account of the Trek , see Walker , E. A. , The Great Trek . 2 ...
... trek parties came in to the rendezvous at Thaba Nchu , numbering up to a hundred waggons at a time , led by the chief local official or the patriarch of the 1 For a detailed account of the Trek , see Walker , E. A. , The Great Trek . 2 ...
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... trek that had been set in motion by Smellekamp's exhortations , the loss of Port Natal and St Lucia Bay and the threat conveyed to Trekker indepen- dence by Napier's treaties . About the New Year of 1844 expeditions from all parts of ...
... trek that had been set in motion by Smellekamp's exhortations , the loss of Port Natal and St Lucia Bay and the threat conveyed to Trekker indepen- dence by Napier's treaties . About the New Year of 1844 expeditions from all parts of ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
South African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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