Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen178W. Blackwood & Sons, 1905 |
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Página 63
... waggon , or , at best , in a few tents or grass huts erected by their Kafir servants . The few dorps that lay on the line of march Hartley purposed avoid- ing as much as possible , relying upon the isolated Kafir trad- ing - stores ...
... waggon , or , at best , in a few tents or grass huts erected by their Kafir servants . The few dorps that lay on the line of march Hartley purposed avoid- ing as much as possible , relying upon the isolated Kafir trad- ing - stores ...
Página 64
... waggon afforded scope for a search that would have shamed the most energetic Customs officer by its thorough- A ... waggon and sixteen oxen , even on good roads , was two and a half tons , the question of safe transport threatened to ...
... waggon afforded scope for a search that would have shamed the most energetic Customs officer by its thorough- A ... waggon and sixteen oxen , even on good roads , was two and a half tons , the question of safe transport threatened to ...
Página 65
... waggon grated or rumbled slowly on over undulating veld , up or VOL CLXXVIII . — NO . MLXXVII . - sides of stony kopjes or mountain ranges , across rivers whose shallowness was compensated for by per- pendicular banks , up which the waggon ...
... waggon grated or rumbled slowly on over undulating veld , up or VOL CLXXVIII . — NO . MLXXVII . - sides of stony kopjes or mountain ranges , across rivers whose shallowness was compensated for by per- pendicular banks , up which the waggon ...
Página 66
... waggon had bumped up the Gibraltar , from which the Devil's Kantoor looks down on Barberton , and Smeer had steered it across the Drak- ensberg through a pass that the stoutest Voortrekker deemed impregnable . To him the lowering of a ...
... waggon had bumped up the Gibraltar , from which the Devil's Kantoor looks down on Barberton , and Smeer had steered it across the Drak- ensberg through a pass that the stoutest Voortrekker deemed impregnable . To him the lowering of a ...
Página 67
... waggon up a hundred yards of steep incline by a process of zig- zagging that would have been easy but for the process of turning the sixty yards of oxen on the trek chain : more than half the load had to be removed before the ascent ...
... waggon up a hundred yards of steep incline by a process of zig- zagging that would have been easy but for the process of turning the sixty yards of oxen on the trek chain : more than half the load had to be removed before the ascent ...
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