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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... farmers , four were fishermen , two innkeepers and eleven artisans . The farmers owned 300 cattle , over 800 sheep and 100 pigs , the Company 278 cattle , about 600 sheep and 300 pigs . With their lands , gardens and poultry , in ...
... farmers , four were fishermen , two innkeepers and eleven artisans . The farmers owned 300 cattle , over 800 sheep and 100 pigs , the Company 278 cattle , about 600 sheep and 300 pigs . With their lands , gardens and poultry , in ...
Page 139
... farmers , was strictly prohibited by the Company , which preferred to make its profits on European spirits . Further , Simon van der Stel's experimental exports of dried meat had come to nothing . The great flocks of fat - tailed sheep ...
... farmers , was strictly prohibited by the Company , which preferred to make its profits on European spirits . Further , Simon van der Stel's experimental exports of dried meat had come to nothing . The great flocks of fat - tailed sheep ...
Page 145
... farmers ' movement , sprung from farmers ' grievances . The town burghers , a parasitic community , which " lived from God and the stranger " , had no hand in it . Van der Stel insisted on all occasions , that it was de boeren ( the ...
... farmers ' movement , sprung from farmers ' grievances . The town burghers , a parasitic community , which " lived from God and the stranger " , had no hand in it . Van der Stel insisted on all occasions , that it was de boeren ( the ...
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