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Logically , therefore , the only means of increasing production and at the same time cutting down expense was the introduction of colonists . By 1655 the Company had been farming for three years on its own account and the results had ...
Logically , therefore , the only means of increasing production and at the same time cutting down expense was the introduction of colonists . By 1655 the Company had been farming for three years on its own account and the results had ...
Page 119
Finally , the colonists were to be subject to all the existing and future laws of the Netherlands and India , and the conditions on which they held their farms could be altered at the pleasure of the Directors .
Finally , the colonists were to be subject to all the existing and future laws of the Netherlands and India , and the conditions on which they held their farms could be altered at the pleasure of the Directors .
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None of them realised that , once a considerable body of colonists was established , the settlement could not be confined within any ring - fence . The colonists would labour to extend their holdings and their herds .
None of them realised that , once a considerable body of colonists was established , the settlement could not be confined within any ring - fence . The colonists would labour to extend their holdings and their herds .
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Smutss offer to S Rhodesia 1921 | 4 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
Copyright | |
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administration already annexation authority Boers British called Cape Colony Cape Town cattle cause century Chief claims coast colonists Commissioner Company constitution Council Court districts Durban Dutch early East Eastern effect established European farmers farms followed force Free frontier further German Government Governor hand High Hope Hottentots House imperial important increased India interest labour land later Legislative less Lord March means ment military mines missionaries Natal Native Office Orange Parl Parliament party passed peace political population port Portuguese problem question railway reached regard remained Report republics responsible Rhodes River rule secure settlement settlers slaves soon South Africa Southern Table Bay territory tion took trade Transvaal tribes troops Union Vide whole
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, John Holland Rose |
| Editor | John Holland Rose |
| Publisher | University Press, 1929 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 8 Apr 2016 |
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