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... bringing servants out from England . If a man comes , he will use the very first money he receives as wages to pay his way to the Diamond Fields , which are the El - Dorado of South Africa ; or he will stay until he can collect a small ...
... bringing servants out from England . If a man comes , he will use the very first money he receives as wages to pay his way to the Diamond Fields , which are the El - Dorado of South Africa ; or he will stay until he can collect a small ...
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... bring true tidings of . I employed the time I had to wait at the Cape , before catching a steamer direct to Durban , in collecting information from the few men there who had any practical experience of big game hunting and travelling in ...
... bring true tidings of . I employed the time I had to wait at the Cape , before catching a steamer direct to Durban , in collecting information from the few men there who had any practical experience of big game hunting and travelling in ...
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... bring it back in . We took three sorts of powder : sharps at Is . 7d . per lb. for the natives we had with us to use in their muzzle - loaders ; No. 6 , 4s . 3d . , rifle grain , for our own large - bore rifles ; and No. 4 , 4s . , for ...
... bring it back in . We took three sorts of powder : sharps at Is . 7d . per lb. for the natives we had with us to use in their muzzle - loaders ; No. 6 , 4s . 3d . , rifle grain , for our own large - bore rifles ; and No. 4 , 4s . , for ...
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... bring the waggon out , and let us commence our journey . Before leaving Maritzburg we were introduced to a traveller with waggon and oxen , etc. , all ready for the road , who wished to join our party , at all events as far as Pretoria ...
... bring the waggon out , and let us commence our journey . Before leaving Maritzburg we were introduced to a traveller with waggon and oxen , etc. , all ready for the road , who wished to join our party , at all events as far as Pretoria ...
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... bringing up our own waggon , while their lazy companions were having the first feed of the none - too - plentiful grass . To use a second span is always the very last expedient resorted to by a driver , for apart from his amour - propre ...
... bringing up our own waggon , while their lazy companions were having the first feed of the none - too - plentiful grass . To use a second span is always the very last expedient resorted to by a driver , for apart from his amour - propre ...
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