Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 30; Volume 52Scribner & Company, 1896 |
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... SOUTH AFRICA . BY JAMES BRYCE , M. I had just an hour before dinner , » he said ; you were not here , and the house seemed very empty . I would have come down to fetch you , but there were some important papers to read before to ...
... SOUTH AFRICA . BY JAMES BRYCE , M. I had just an hour before dinner , » he said ; you were not here , and the house seemed very empty . I would have come down to fetch you , but there were some important papers to read before to ...
Page 48
... South Africa has only just begun to excite the curiosity and interest of mankind . Twenty years ago even England seldom thought of her remote colony , except when some Kafir war compelled the despatch of imperial troops ; and the rest ...
... South Africa has only just begun to excite the curiosity and interest of mankind . Twenty years ago even England seldom thought of her remote colony , except when some Kafir war compelled the despatch of imperial troops ; and the rest ...
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... South African discovery has proceeded , and how it is the Dutch and the English , ra- ther than the Portuguese , that have become the pos- sessors of the rich interior . In the early years of the sixteenth century , long be- fore the ...
... South African discovery has proceeded , and how it is the Dutch and the English , ra- ther than the Portuguese , that have become the pos- sessors of the rich interior . In the early years of the sixteenth century , long be- fore the ...
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... South Africa consists of this sort of wilder- ness , which includes nearly all of German West Africa and of the British territories between the Orange River and Lake Ngami . The rest of the country is better fitted for human life and ...
... South Africa consists of this sort of wilder- ness , which includes nearly all of German West Africa and of the British territories between the Orange River and Lake Ngami . The rest of the country is better fitted for human life and ...
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... South Africa Company as its sphere of operations . Bechuanaland- so called from the principal native race which occupies it is a high and generally level country , mostly wooded , though the trees are but small , and with grass which is ...
... South Africa Company as its sphere of operations . Bechuanaland- so called from the principal native race which occupies it is a high and generally level country , mostly wooded , though the trees are but small , and with grass which is ...
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