The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... TREK , 1835-1848 THE Great Trek of the Cape frontiersmen is still the central event in South Africa's history . It can be distinguished both from the slow dispersion of the sheep and cattle farmers that had preceded it since the last ...
... TREK , 1835-1848 THE Great Trek of the Cape frontiersmen is still the central event in South Africa's history . It can be distinguished both from the slow dispersion of the sheep and cattle farmers that had preceded it since the last ...
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... Trek was talked of seriously , cattlemen had reached the drifts over the middle Orange , and government had reluctantly followed them up . Now , in 1834 , scores of families were scattered to the east of the new boundary between the ...
... Trek was talked of seriously , cattlemen had reached the drifts over the middle Orange , and government had reluctantly followed them up . Now , in 1834 , scores of families were scattered to the east of the new boundary between the ...
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... Trek passed through two stages : first , the Trek proper , a more or less organised exodus north - eastwards from the Cape Colony , and then a drift still further inland from the areas occupied during the first stage . The movement ...
... Trek passed through two stages : first , the Trek proper , a more or less organised exodus north - eastwards from the Cape Colony , and then a drift still further inland from the areas occupied during the first stage . The movement ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari 569 | 15 |
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