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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... appearance , and spoke languages of a somewhat similar type , but they were a predominantly pastoral people , living in larger communities with a more complex system of social organisation . For more than a century onwards these two ...
... appearance , and spoke languages of a somewhat similar type , but they were a predominantly pastoral people , living in larger communities with a more complex system of social organisation . For more than a century onwards these two ...
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... appearance of the Mantis was an omen of extreme good fortune . The wearing of amulets was common ; herdsmen , warriors and others tied round their necks small pieces of wood , fangs , beads , pieces of scaly skin and similar objects ...
... appearance of the Mantis was an omen of extreme good fortune . The wearing of amulets was common ; herdsmen , warriors and others tied round their necks small pieces of wood , fangs , beads , pieces of scaly skin and similar objects ...
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... appeared to me " , he wrote to Lord Kimberley at the Colonial Office , " that the British Government had gone too ... appearance of faltering on my part would only encourage the Free State and Transvaal in upholding their claims . " Yet ...
... appeared to me " , he wrote to Lord Kimberley at the Colonial Office , " that the British Government had gone too ... appearance of faltering on my part would only encourage the Free State and Transvaal in upholding their claims . " Yet ...
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CHAPTER I | 1 |
South African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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