Geography of Africa South of the ZambesiClarendon Press, 1892 - 400 pages |
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... interior how , during the next ten years , the various colonies , states , and protectorates gradually settle down . I have taken the 1890 statistics as my basis , incorporating also a large number of the 1891 Census Summaries . After a ...
... interior how , during the next ten years , the various colonies , states , and protectorates gradually settle down . I have taken the 1890 statistics as my basis , incorporating also a large number of the 1891 Census Summaries . After a ...
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... interior was filled with savage tribes , and that its plains swarmed with all kinds of game . In fact no tract of land in the world was more fitted to be a hunter's paradise . Neither the plains of India nor the prairies of the north ...
... interior was filled with savage tribes , and that its plains swarmed with all kinds of game . In fact no tract of land in the world was more fitted to be a hunter's paradise . Neither the plains of India nor the prairies of the north ...
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... Boers crossed the Orange River they made their way eastward to Natal . Travelling 1 ' South Africa : Past and Present , ' by T. Noble , p . 80 . C along the uplands of the interior , they came to 1. ] 17 The British Occupation .
... Boers crossed the Orange River they made their way eastward to Natal . Travelling 1 ' South Africa : Past and Present , ' by T. Noble , p . 80 . C along the uplands of the interior , they came to 1. ] 17 The British Occupation .
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William Henry Parr Greswell. along the uplands of the interior , they came to the ridges of the Drakensburg , and from this natural barrier they looked down upon the wooded kloofs and rolling plains of what is now the colony of Natal ...
William Henry Parr Greswell. along the uplands of the interior , they came to the ridges of the Drakensburg , and from this natural barrier they looked down upon the wooded kloofs and rolling plains of what is now the colony of Natal ...
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... interior , embracing the valley of the Congo , and reaching nearly as far south as the Zambesi . This Free State sprang originally out of the discoveries of Mr. Stan- ley , and the enterprise of the International Association , founded ...
... interior , embracing the valley of the Congo , and reaching nearly as far south as the Zambesi . This Free State sprang originally out of the discoveries of Mr. Stan- ley , and the enterprise of the International Association , founded ...
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amongst Appendix Basutoland Basutos Bechuanaland Boers borders boundary British burghers called Cape Colony Cape Peninsula Capetown centre Charter chief Church coast colonists Council Crown 8vo Delagoa Bay diamonds distance district division Durban East India Company Eastern Province Edition electoral England English European Extra fcap farmers farms fcap feet Fish River forest frontier gold Government Governor Graaf Reinet Griqualand West harbour Hottentots important Indian interior Kaffirs Karroo Kimberley Knysna Lake land latitude Limpopo Mashonaland Matabili Matabililand ment mines mouth Natal native north-west occupied officers Orange Free Orange River plateau Poort population Port Elizabeth Portuguese Pretoria railway Republic revenue Royal Colonial Institute settlement sheep ships South Africa south-east south-west sphere square miles Swellendam Table Bay Table Mountain Tembuland territories Theal's tion town tract trade Transkei Transvaal traveller tribes Tugela Vaal River valley veldt Western whole Zambesi Zulu Zululand
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Page 386 - Bay is reserved for arbitration, unless it shall be settled by the consent of the two Powers within two years from the date of the conclusion of this Agreement.
Page 373 - VICTORIA, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith; to all to whom these presents shall come greeting...
Page 281 - It is agreed that no slavery is or shall be permitted or practised in the country to the North of the Vaal River by the Emigrant Farmers.
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Page 371 - Portugal undertakes to apply the principles of freedom of navigation enunciated in this article on so much of the waters of the Zambesi, its affluents, branches, and outlets, as are or may be under her sovereignty, protection, or influence. The rules which she may establish for the safety and control of navigation shall be drawn up in a way to facilitate, as far as possible, the circulation of merchant ships.
Page 384 - ... and shall be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of...
Page 376 - Company . . . shall be the region of South Africa lying immediately to the north of British Bechuanaland, and to the north and west of the South African Republic [Transvaal] and to the west of the Portuguese Dominions.
Page 309 - It is understood, that in tracing the frontier along the slope of the plateau no territory west of longitude 32° 30' east of Greenwicli shall be comprised in the Portuguese sphere, and no territory east of longitude 33° east of Greenwich shall be comprised in the British sphere. The line shall...
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