The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... Trekkers pouring down the passes into Natal . Retief also found that during his absence Potgieter and Uys had taken a line of their own . With 135 mounted men and a few Bantu followers they had gone against the Matabele , the one tribal ...
... Trekkers pouring down the passes into Natal . Retief also found that during his absence Potgieter and Uys had taken a line of their own . With 135 mounted men and a few Bantu followers they had gone against the Matabele , the one tribal ...
Page 334
... Trekkers confidence , and set the Natalians free to organise Natal as the first of the Trekker republics . The English survivors at Port Natal had already given up to them such rights as they had , and now Captain Jervis , the British ...
... Trekkers confidence , and set the Natalians free to organise Natal as the first of the Trekker republics . The English survivors at Port Natal had already given up to them such rights as they had , and now Captain Jervis , the British ...
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... Trekkers were a nomadic pastoral community , autonomous de facto , knit together more closely than any organised community in modern times by ties of blood , language , religion , race , occupation and cultural outlook . If constitution ...
... Trekkers were a nomadic pastoral community , autonomous de facto , knit together more closely than any organised community in modern times by ties of blood , language , religion , race , occupation and cultural outlook . If constitution ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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