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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... voyage , and waited until reaping - time . They then harvested the corn and sailed on . When two years had passed in this fashion , they doubled the Pillars of Heracles in the third year and came to Egypt . They made a statement which ...
... voyage , and waited until reaping - time . They then harvested the corn and sailed on . When two years had passed in this fashion , they doubled the Pillars of Heracles in the third year and came to Egypt . They made a statement which ...
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... voyage we are dependent upon the historian Barros who wrote more than half a century later , 1 but it may be supplemented by the legends upon the contemporary map of Henricus Martellus ( 1489 ) , the Portuguese chart of 1502 , called ...
... voyage we are dependent upon the historian Barros who wrote more than half a century later , 1 but it may be supplemented by the legends upon the contemporary map of Henricus Martellus ( 1489 ) , the Portuguese chart of 1502 , called ...
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... voyage had lasted sixteen months and seventeen days , and it must be accounted the greatest and most successful of all the long series of African voyages that had begun under Prince Henry's inspiration seventy years before . He died in ...
... voyage had lasted sixteen months and seventeen days , and it must be accounted the greatest and most successful of all the long series of African voyages that had begun under Prince Henry's inspiration seventy years before . He died in ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
South African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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