South Africa, Volume 2Bernard Tauchnitz, 1878 |
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... Vaal river at a place called Standerton or Stander's Drift , —drift being Dutch for a ford the word has by common usage become English in South Africa , -as also has the word spruit for a stream . Here there resides one General Standers ...
... Vaal river at a place called Standerton or Stander's Drift , —drift being Dutch for a ford the word has by common usage become English in South Africa , -as also has the word spruit for a stream . Here there resides one General Standers ...
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Anthony Trollope. Rising up from the Vaal river to the height of about 500 feet the land ceases to be hilly and becomes a vast rolling plain for many miles , without a single tree , and almost without a single enclosure . We saw numerous ...
Anthony Trollope. Rising up from the Vaal river to the height of about 500 feet the land ceases to be hilly and becomes a vast rolling plain for many miles , without a single tree , and almost without a single enclosure . We saw numerous ...
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... Vaal river . The Orange river as it runs down to the sea from the Diamond Fields through the inhospitable and little known regions of Bushmansland and Namaqualand used to be called the Gariep and is made up of two large rivers which ...
... Vaal river . The Orange river as it runs down to the sea from the Diamond Fields through the inhospitable and little known regions of Bushmansland and Namaqualand used to be called the Gariep and is made up of two large rivers which ...
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... Vaal river , including the little town of Bloomhof , which we , by British award declared to be in- dependent . Governor Keate of Natal was appointed as arbitrator to draw a line between the Republic and the natives , and he declared ...
... Vaal river , including the little town of Bloomhof , which we , by British award declared to be in- dependent . Governor Keate of Natal was appointed as arbitrator to draw a line between the Republic and the natives , and he declared ...
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... Vaal river , groping their way to Natal , they found Mazulekatze and his Matabeles who was still at war with some of these Bechuana tribes south of the Vaal river . This was in 1837 , the year before the final abolition of slavery which ...
... Vaal river , groping their way to Natal , they found Mazulekatze and his Matabeles who was still at war with some of these Bechuana tribes south of the Vaal river . This was in 1837 , the year before the final abolition of slavery which ...
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Adam Kok altogether annexation Baralongs Basutos Bechuanas become Bloemfontein Boer's Britain British brought Bultfontein Burgers called Cape Colony capital carried cattle certainly Chief claim Colonial Office coloured comfort copper Delagoa Bay Diamond Fields diggers district doubt Dutch Boer Dutchman duty endeavoured England English Englishman European farm farmers feel fighting Fingos Galekas gold Government Governor Griqualand West Griquas hands horses Hottentot Kafir Kafraria Kimberley Kreli labour land live look matter miles Moshesh Natal nation Natives never once Orange Free Orange River paid peculiarly perhaps population possession President Pretoria probably question railway Republic road schools Secretary seems settled Sir Theophilus South Africa South African Republic stones territory Thaba Ncho Theophilus Shepstone thing tion told town Transvaal travelled treaty tribe Vaal river Volksraad vote wages Waterboer Zulus