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... Durban • CHAPTER IV . Durban Railway - Kaffir Carriers - Fever - Conveyances to Maritzburg - Royal Hotel Waiters - Kaffirs - Curfew Bell - Sunday Dinner . CHAPTER V. Clearing Fire - arms - The Point - Gun - room - A Gun lost- Gun ...
... Durban • CHAPTER IV . Durban Railway - Kaffir Carriers - Fever - Conveyances to Maritzburg - Royal Hotel Waiters - Kaffirs - Curfew Bell - Sunday Dinner . CHAPTER V. Clearing Fire - arms - The Point - Gun - room - A Gun lost- Gun ...
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... Durban - On board the " Melrose " -East London - Volunteers - The Bars - Land- ing at Durban . DURING the voyage out we had passed away many an hour listening to narratives and anecdotes of sport , travel , and life in the interior ...
... Durban - On board the " Melrose " -East London - Volunteers - The Bars - Land- ing at Durban . DURING the voyage out we had passed away many an hour listening to narratives and anecdotes of sport , travel , and life in the interior ...
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... Durban . As yet we had decided on no definite route , for the very unsettled state of the natives throughout the whole of South Africa left us in doubt as to which part would be free for us to hunt in , and travel through , by the time ...
... Durban . As yet we had decided on no definite route , for the very unsettled state of the natives throughout the whole of South Africa left us in doubt as to which part would be free for us to hunt in , and travel through , by the time ...
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... Durban harbour ; for , like all the rest of the harbours , Durban also has its bar , but for which it would be one of the finest harbours in the world , as , once inside , the largest ship afloat can lie there in perfect safety . At ...
... Durban harbour ; for , like all the rest of the harbours , Durban also has its bar , but for which it would be one of the finest harbours in the world , as , once inside , the largest ship afloat can lie there in perfect safety . At ...
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... Durban , situated some two miles further up the harbour . The train took the remarkably slow time of half - an - hour for the two miles , but the carriages would probably have fallen to pieces if they had attempted a higher rate of ...
... Durban , situated some two miles further up the harbour . The train took the remarkably slow time of half - an - hour for the two miles , but the carriages would probably have fallen to pieces if they had attempted a higher rate of ...
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appeared arrived assegais beast birds blesse-bôk blue wildebeeste Boers bôk boys breakfast buffalo bush camp Cape Town chance coffee colour cook couple dark Delagoa Bay dinner distance Durban farm feet fire followed forelouper Francis fresh gave giraffe give grass guns Harrismith head herd Herr Marensky Herr Pastor hill horse Howick inspanned instant Jantze Kaffirs killed krall leaving Leydenburg lion looked Maritzburg Martini-Henry meal mealies meat Middelburg miles morning Natal never night o'clock once ourselves outspanned oxen passed Pretoria quagga reeds riding rifle river road rock rode round saddle Secocoeni shoot shot side sight skin sloot snake soon South Africa span spoor spring-bôk started stream Sunday supply thick took town Transvaal trees trek treked tsetse fly turned veldt waggon whole Woodward wounded yards Zulu
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