South Africa, Volume 1Bernard Tauchnitz, 1878 |
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... wool began to prevail . Merino sheep were introduced , and wool became the most important production of the colony . During the whole of this period the practice was continued by the old - fashioned farmers of receding from their farms ...
... wool began to prevail . Merino sheep were introduced , and wool became the most important production of the colony . During the whole of this period the practice was continued by the old - fashioned farmers of receding from their farms ...
Page 101
... wool , which seemed to have been shorn in a very rough manner , -cut off in locks after a fashion which would have broken the heart of an Australian Squatter , wool chopped as you would chop a salad , -was first put into a square ...
... wool , which seemed to have been shorn in a very rough manner , -cut off in locks after a fashion which would have broken the heart of an Australian Squatter , wool chopped as you would chop a salad , -was first put into a square ...
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... wool along with the black men , even for 4s . 6d . Just as the night was set in we started at a gallop with our tired horses . I know so well the way in which a poor weary brute may be spirited up for five minutes ; not , alas , without ...
... wool along with the black men , even for 4s . 6d . Just as the night was set in we started at a gallop with our tired horses . I know so well the way in which a poor weary brute may be spirited up for five minutes ; not , alas , without ...
Page 115
... wool . I could not but hope as I saw the huge birds stalking about with pom- pous air , which as you approached them they would now and again change for a flirting gait , looking back over their shoulders as they skipped along with ...
... wool . I could not but hope as I saw the huge birds stalking about with pom- pous air , which as you approached them they would now and again change for a flirting gait , looking back over their shoulders as they skipped along with ...
Page 128
... and his old wine , - and the remaining oranges . We visited also a wool - washing establishment which had just been set up with new fashioned machinery , and then we had seen all that The Paarl had to shew 128 THE CAPE COLONY .
... and his old wine , - and the remaining oranges . We visited also a wool - washing establishment which had just been set up with new fashioned machinery , and then we had seen all that The Paarl had to shew 128 THE CAPE COLONY .
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