The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... Diamond Fields , or even the step itself , was opportune , and it is certain that a more conciliatory policy would have done much to mollify Brand . Sir Henry Barkly , the spearhead of imperial government , on whose shoulders critical ...
... Diamond Fields , or even the step itself , was opportune , and it is certain that a more conciliatory policy would have done much to mollify Brand . Sir Henry Barkly , the spearhead of imperial government , on whose shoulders critical ...
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... Diamond Fields . Their insistence on coin rather than notes drained the banks of their specie , and large quantities had to be imported . Great temptations were offered to the Africans by illicit diamond buyers to steal and sell part of ...
... Diamond Fields . Their insistence on coin rather than notes drained the banks of their specie , and large quantities had to be imported . Great temptations were offered to the Africans by illicit diamond buyers to steal and sell part of ...
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... diamond discoveries and by their effect on the trade of the internal republics . Railway construction from Durban was begun by the Natal Government in 1876 to serve the new sugar estates by coast lines . The sugar industry was by then ...
... diamond discoveries and by their effect on the trade of the internal republics . Railway construction from Durban was begun by the Natal Government in 1876 to serve the new sugar estates by coast lines . The sugar industry was by then ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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