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There are indeed indications that one or two bold adventurers sailed to some point south of Madagascar in the fourteenth century , but the evidence is very vague . At any rate , none passed the southernmost point of Africa , or , so far ...
There are indeed indications that one or two bold adventurers sailed to some point south of Madagascar in the fourteenth century , but the evidence is very vague . At any rate , none passed the southernmost point of Africa , or , so far ...
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The history of the Dutch East India Company during the first three - quarters of the eighteenth century is the uninspiring record of a great and once vigorous and enterprising organisation getting set in its ways , jealously guarding ...
The history of the Dutch East India Company during the first three - quarters of the eighteenth century is the uninspiring record of a great and once vigorous and enterprising organisation getting set in its ways , jealously guarding ...
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This theory , which now holds the field , makes full allowance for corrupting influences , but maintains that just as the Dutch of the seventeenth century has suffered a sea - change , like many another tongue , so under new conditions ...
This theory , which now holds the field , makes full allowance for corrupting influences , but maintains that just as the Dutch of the seventeenth century has suffered a sea - change , like many another tongue , so under new conditions ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Smutss offer to S Rhodesia 1921 | 4 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
Copyright | |
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