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The South-African crisis - pagina 11
THE SOUTH-AFRICANCRISIS.ranee and a tenacity which nothing can shake. NeithertheSpaniards inglish at thethesixteenth century nor the En-Cape ever comprehendedupon kitent energy.this character basedBecause they in winter ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICANignorant ofmilitary discipline asall11ClilSIS.nnderstoodisitby European armies, they fight in perfectly homogeneous manner, each of them being an officer to himself and co-operating on his own initiative for the end w ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN12CRISIS.most pure and alcoholism has never seduced them. Their fecundity alsoisalmost incredible.Families ofnot a very rare exception, and tofifteen children arehave as many as tenabout the average.is ...
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THE SOUTll-Al'lUCAN13CllISIS.In any case as regards the Boers,whohavesince 1S04moiuited up from 60,000 to more than half a milHon, the increasemakesthis fact stillmoreinterestingisconsidered amongst the Boe ...
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THK SOUTH-AFRICAN14BoersCPJSIS.met these reproaches withinvariably"Sir,:you dont know the Cape", and the sad experience Englishthedoesnot allow them to say that the Boerswrong.Even after more than eighty 3^ ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN17CRISIS.They numbered 40,000 and representing anin 1834.average value of two thousand francs per head formedmost of the colonists the chief part of their small The Parliament of London which had possessions. forpromised compensati ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICANIGwhich the employment of interpreterslation of evidenceTheyinvolved.ousted fromfeltown country and public life. Even whenexiled in theirparticipation inallParliament was instituted prevailed ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN15CRISIS.of a rival nationality she would have a difficult pass toQuite on theget over. She did nothing of the kind.contrarywith arrogant presumption and selfconscious;strength of her thenof theundispute ...
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;THE SOUTH- AFRICAN18knowncallyflyand take their chancePharaonic terrorsitsThe Boer famihes in from their Egypt andas the great trek.thousands resolved totheirCEISIS.in thewide wilderness. Bet ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN19CEISIS.England had humiliated them before their andthemexposedtocruelslaves,lawlessness as fugitiveschased from the hearths of their ancestors. But instead of revolting,andtheirsubmitted ...
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