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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Occasionally , strong - willed and autocratic chiefs would succeed in dominating their subjects , but on the whole the Bantu rarely suffered from the rule of capricious and tyrannical chiefs . The arrangements for all tribal religious ...
Occasionally , strong - willed and autocratic chiefs would succeed in dominating their subjects , but on the whole the Bantu rarely suffered from the rule of capricious and tyrannical chiefs . The arrangements for all tribal religious ...
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... and all the missionaries , English and American , had fled the country ; the Natal Boers , some 3500 in all , had lost fully 350 slain and were cooped up in laager , and the whole territory was at the mercy of the savages .
... and all the missionaries , English and American , had fled the country ; the Natal Boers , some 3500 in all , had lost fully 350 slain and were cooped up in laager , and the whole territory was at the mercy of the savages .
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There are to be found the ablest trade union leaders , while the peculiar conditions under which that industry is carried on favour the sudden development of dangerous industrial upheavals . The whole population of the Witwatersrand ...
There are to be found the ablest trade union leaders , while the peculiar conditions under which that industry is carried on favour the sudden development of dangerous industrial upheavals . The whole population of the Witwatersrand ...
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Contents
THE GEOGRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT | 1 |
South African Rivers | 7 |
Rainfall II | 11 |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, John Holland Rose |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1929 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Dec 2006 |
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