This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...the rapidly increasing British settlers clamouring for equal political rights, and for a share in the administration of the country, led to further migratory movements to Damaraland and the Cunene basin. The spirit of unrest and of discontent at the innovations necessitated by the altered social ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...the rapidly increasing British settlers clamouring for equal political rights, and for a share in the administration of the country, led to further migratory movements to Damaraland and the Cunene basin. The spirit of unrest and of discontent at the innovations necessitated by the altered social conditions again manifested itself in an attempt made in 1891 to organise another trek in the direction of the Zambesi, with the view of founding a new Dutch republic in Banyai or Mashonaland, or some other territory beyond the Limpopo, But the whole of this region had meantime been brought within the sphere of British influence, and all the land available for white settlement is already actually administered by the chartered British $01"-, h Africa Company. Hence, on the report of the intended trek to Mashonaland reaching the Cape, the High (emmis_ sioner, Sir Henry Loch, at once applied (April 1891) to President Kruger, plainly intimating that any attempt to found another Boer State anywhere within protected British territory would be forcibly resisted. The President's emphatic reply was: " I have damped the and scarcely 6000 inhabitants reside in a city which was originally planned to accommodate ten times that number. _ Potchefstroom lies 90 miles farther south, near the Free State frontier on the Mooi, a romantic little affluent of the Vaal. It was the first place founded in Transvaal by the Vortrekkers, and for some time continued to be the seat of government, and the largest town in the State. Its present population of about 5000 is outnumbered three times by that of Johannesburg, the busy centre of the Vitwatersrand_ goldfields, and already the true commercial capital of Transvaal, although its name figures on no map...
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Very Good. Volume 2 only of 2. (from Stanford's Compendium of Geography Series). Vol 2 (South Africa): xvi + 671pp, 11 maps (mainly coloured and fold-out), 92 illustrations. Minimal wear to binding, in fresh dark green cloth; bright gilt titling and bright upper and spine vignettes. Spines and hinges perfect, Unmarked internally. 32.
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