Compendium of the History and Geography of South AfricaE. Stanford, 1878 - 440 pages |
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afterwards Algoa Bay appointed arrived attacked Basutos British burghers Bushmen Cape Colony Cape Town carried cattle Chamber of Seventeen chief clans coast colonists command commenced Company Council court diamond DINGAN district Dutch East India Emigrants enemy England English European farmers farms Fingoes Fish River fleet force formed frontier garrison Gcalekas Governor Graaff Reinet Grahamstown Griquas ground High Commissioner Holland Hottentots hundred inhabitants Kaffirland Kaffirs Keiskama King William's Town kraal labour land landdrost MAQOMA miles military mission missionaries mountains Namaqualand Natal natives NDLAMBE nearly NGQIKA obtained occupied officers Orange River party peace Port portion possession present PRETORIUS principal Province purchase Quathlamba received remained Republic residence RIEBECK SANDILE sent settlement settlers sheep ships slaves soldiers soon South Africa stations Swellendam Table Bay territory thousand took tract trade tribes troops TSHAKA Vaal vessels village Volksraad waggons Zulu
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Page 164 - And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it...
Page 164 - And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself: and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.
Page 160 - The Assistant Commissioners guarantee in the fullest manner, on the part of the British Government, to the emigrant farmers beyond the Vaal River, the right to manage their own affairs and to govern themselves according to their own laws, without any interference on the part of the British Government...
Page 223 - Urged to revenge and desperation by the systematic injustice of which they had been the victims, I am compelled to embrace, however reluctantly, the conclusion that they had a perfect right to hazard the experiment, however hopeless, of extorting by force that redress which they could not expect otherwise to obtain.
Page 118 - But it would be a mere waste of words to dwell on the remarkable distinction to be drawn between burghers whose ancestors nobly fought for and conquered their freedom from tyranny, and from whose fortitude in the cause of liberty the very power of our Republic...
Page 26 - Provided that there shall be a session of every provincial council once at least in every year, so that a period of twelve months shall not intervene between the last sitting of the council in one session and its first sitting in the next session.
Page 53 - ... the comparative universality of their belief in the continued existence of the soul after the death of the body...
Page 164 - When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. And it shall be if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
Page 98 - II. and the accession of the Prince of Orange to the throne of England, the exiles were restored to their country and their patrimony, and Hume was made a peer.
Page 20 - Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean and on the west by the...