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... chief , CHAPTER IX . SECOCOENI . The present quarrel - Death of Jonathan - A critical position- White witchcraft - Amenities of Kafir war - An error of judg ment - Soldier's war - dance - A contrast , CHAPTER X. OUR TAME KAFIRS . Value ...
... chief , CHAPTER IX . SECOCOENI . The present quarrel - Death of Jonathan - A critical position- White witchcraft - Amenities of Kafir war - An error of judg ment - Soldier's war - dance - A contrast , CHAPTER X. OUR TAME KAFIRS . Value ...
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... chief whom they found engaged in a course of rapine and destruction almost without parallel . This man with his army had burned and devastated an enormous tract of country , and until he met with the Boers , had succeeded , not in ...
... chief whom they found engaged in a course of rapine and destruction almost without parallel . This man with his army had burned and devastated an enormous tract of country , and until he met with the Boers , had succeeded , not in ...
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... chief a recognition of the independence of the small white settlement on the sea . The chief also about the same time gave to the emigrant Boers permission to occupy the country , the desolation of which by Chaka I have just pictured ...
... chief a recognition of the independence of the small white settlement on the sea . The chief also about the same time gave to the emigrant Boers permission to occupy the country , the desolation of which by Chaka I have just pictured ...
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... chief Moselekatze had abandoned it , having fled north into the region between the Limpopo and the Zambesi rivers , where his tribe , the Matabele , under his successor Lobengulo , now dwell . Those remaining were ' weak and broken ...
... chief Moselekatze had abandoned it , having fled north into the region between the Limpopo and the Zambesi rivers , where his tribe , the Matabele , under his successor Lobengulo , now dwell . Those remaining were ' weak and broken ...
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... chief objects of their search . These the Voorloop- ers 1 did not find on the Highveld , as the large , bare , but 1 Every team of bullocks has a leader - generally a native boy - who holds a tow - line fastened to the horns of the ...
... chief objects of their search . These the Voorloop- ers 1 did not find on the Highveld , as the large , bare , but 1 Every team of bullocks has a leader - generally a native boy - who holds a tow - line fastened to the horns of the ...
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