The International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress During the Year 1898-1902Frank Moore Colby, Harry Thurston Peck Dodd, Mead, 1899 |
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... land is under tillage and the bulk of the people are hardly beyond the pastoral stage . The heavy taxation is one cause of the failure to cultivate the land to a higher degree . The soil is said to con- sist principally of black clay ...
... land is under tillage and the bulk of the people are hardly beyond the pastoral stage . The heavy taxation is one cause of the failure to cultivate the land to a higher degree . The soil is said to con- sist principally of black clay ...
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... land Shoshong R. Ft . Sete Salisbury Bulawayo Matabele AFRICA Kalahari , Desert AFRICAN REP A STATE LOURENCO Ogden Land Wilhelm Walfisch Bay ( Br . ) msfest Palach we FTuli TROPIC OF CAPRICORN Great Namaqualand Molopolo Bersaba Limpopo ...
... land Shoshong R. Ft . Sete Salisbury Bulawayo Matabele AFRICA Kalahari , Desert AFRICAN REP A STATE LOURENCO Ogden Land Wilhelm Walfisch Bay ( Br . ) msfest Palach we FTuli TROPIC OF CAPRICORN Great Namaqualand Molopolo Bersaba Limpopo ...
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... lands of Africa are at present almost all appor- tioned with some degree of definiteness as European colonies or native ... land down to the time of those discoveries which began with Livingstone's journeys to the Zambesi in 1854-1857 ...
... lands of Africa are at present almost all appor- tioned with some degree of definiteness as European colonies or native ... land down to the time of those discoveries which began with Livingstone's journeys to the Zambesi in 1854-1857 ...
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... land , Portugal , and native princes . Its area is placed at 385,000 square miles . Ger- many also has in the ... lands and for- merly the claimant to an enormous empire , is now restricted to the large block of territory called Angola ...
... land , Portugal , and native princes . Its area is placed at 385,000 square miles . Ger- many also has in the ... lands and for- merly the claimant to an enormous empire , is now restricted to the large block of territory called Angola ...
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... land continued to be held in common . From this arose a sharp antagonism between the peasants and their landlords , and at the time of the revolutionary movement of 1848 the families of the latter suffered from a violent out- break of ...
... land continued to be held in common . From this arose a sharp antagonism between the peasants and their landlords , and at the time of the revolutionary movement of 1848 the families of the latter suffered from a violent out- break of ...
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