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Between Sun and Sand: "A Tale of an African Desert"
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ISBN10: 1542689007
ISBN13: 9781542689007
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 22 2017
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781542689007
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 22 2017
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Excerpt from Between Sun and Sand: A Tale of an African Desert
Lest the account given in this book of the trekking springbucks should be considered an exaggeration, it may be mentioned that in 1892, when the author held the appointments of Civil Commissioner for Namaqualand and Special Magistrate for the Northern Border of the Cape Colony, he was obliged to issue a hundred stand of Government arms to the Boers for the purpose of driving back the game which threatened to overrun those parts of Namaqualand where ground is cultivated. As it was, there was some difficulty in repelling the invasion.
Lest the account given in this book of the trekking springbucks should be considered an exaggeration, it may be mentioned that in 1892, when the author held the appointments of Civil Commissioner for Namaqualand and Special Magistrate for the Northern Border of the Cape Colony, he was obliged to issue a hundred stand of Government arms to the Boers for the purpose of driving back the game which threatened to overrun those parts of Namaqualand where ground is cultivated. As it was, there was some difficulty in repelling the invasion.
The term Bushman, strictly speaking, only applies to the diminutive former inhabitants of the Desert, who are now practically extinct to the south of the Orange River. The Trek-Boer, however, usually calls every Hottentot of low stature a Bushman.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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