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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... remained behind , each of which in time grew into a separate tribe . As they advanced in this way , they gradually dispossessed their Bushman predecessors , driving them from the fertile plains to the mountain fastnesses of the interior ...
... remained behind , each of which in time grew into a separate tribe . As they advanced in this way , they gradually dispossessed their Bushman predecessors , driving them from the fertile plains to the mountain fastnesses of the interior ...
Page 127
... remained to resist the white intruders . The Bushmen were incapable of acting in large groups , but they made up for what they lacked in organisation by untamable hostility . They waged unceasing war against the herds and the lives of ...
... remained to resist the white intruders . The Bushmen were incapable of acting in large groups , but they made up for what they lacked in organisation by untamable hostility . They waged unceasing war against the herds and the lives of ...
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... remained . Churches , associations of all kinds , and newspapers multi- plied , the machinery of government grew more elaborate , and the Cape relaxed its control little by little ; but the fact remained that a decade after its ...
... remained . Churches , associations of all kinds , and newspapers multi- plied , the machinery of government grew more elaborate , and the Cape relaxed its control little by little ; but the fact remained that a decade after its ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
South African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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