The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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Page 429
... Basuto . Only the clumsiness of a too democratic Krygsraad , and the tendency of the farmers to return to their farms as soon as the rains fell and the ploughing season commenced in October , saved the Basuto from ruinous losses ...
... Basuto . Only the clumsiness of a too democratic Krygsraad , and the tendency of the farmers to return to their farms as soon as the rains fell and the ploughing season commenced in October , saved the Basuto from ruinous losses ...
Page 430
... Basuto had sown during the lull in December and January . The threat of a winter of famine broke the Basuto resistance , and the Free State commenced to dismember Basutoland . By the Treaty of Imparani , Molapo was compelled to cede his ...
... Basuto had sown during the lull in December and January . The threat of a winter of famine broke the Basuto resistance , and the Free State commenced to dismember Basutoland . By the Treaty of Imparani , Molapo was compelled to cede his ...
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... Basuto after the disastrous second Basuto War , had not the Free State farmers and the opportune discovery of the Diamond Fields given employment to large numbers of them . The story of the loss by the Basuto of their best grazing and ...
... Basuto after the disastrous second Basuto War , had not the Free State farmers and the opportune discovery of the Diamond Fields given employment to large numbers of them . The story of the loss by the Basuto of their best grazing and ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari 569 | 15 |
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