Natal

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Pages : 320

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Natal

Natal PDF Author: Robert Russell
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NATAL

NATAL PDF Author: ROBERT. RUSSELL
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Natal, the land and its story

Natal, the land and its story PDF Author: Robert C. Russell
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Natal

Natal PDF Author: Robert Russell
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Natal

Natal PDF Author: Robert Russell
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Natal, the Land and Its Story

Natal, the Land and Its Story PDF Author: Robert Russell
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 9781104299316
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Natal

Natal PDF Author: Robert Russell
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Category : Natal (South Africa)
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Pages : 370

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Natal

Natal PDF Author: Robert Russell
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656509737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Excerpt from Natal: The Land and Its Story Natal is one of the youngest of Britain's Oversea possessions. Look at a map of the world and you will see that it occupies only a small corner of the south-eastern part of Africa, the most compact and, even now, the least known and civilised of all the continents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.

Natal, the Land and Its Story

Natal, the Land and Its Story PDF Author: Robert Russell
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Natal; the Land and Its Story

Natal; the Land and Its Story PDF Author: Robert Russell
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ISBN: 9781230318837
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Pages : 82

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... was felt that this was an unfriendly message and one which assailed the whole position of Great Britain in South Africa. As a result of the warning Great Britain prepared for war. The crisis was averted, but it evoked a tempest of patriotic feeling never before experienced during this generation. Meanwhile the promoters of the Reform movement in the Transvaal, numbering sixty-four, all men of wealth and influence in Johannesburg, were arrested and put in prison in Pretoria. They were tried in May. The four leaders, Mr. Lionel Phillips, Mr. George Farrar, Mr. John Hays Hammond, and Colonel Rhodes, were sentenced to death. This sentence was almost immediately commuted to a long term of imprisonment, and finally to payment of a heavy fine. The sentence of imprisonment passed on the other Reformers was also similarly commuted. A Time of Trouble. The political disturbances in the Transvaal heralded a period of disaster to Natal, in common with the rest of South Africa. On the last day of 1895 a terrible railway accident took place on the Natal line near Glencoe, whereby forty persons lost their lives and many were seriously injured. The passengers were mostly women and children sent away from possible disturbance in Johannesburg. The line had been opened through to Johannesburg from Durban in November. In February 1896, eight trucks full of dynamite exploded in the station of Vredendorp, a working suburb of Johannesburg. A hole was torn in the earth 30 feet deep, and 200 feet long; every house in the suburb was levelled; and the loss of life was enormous. In June of the same year, the Drummond Castle, an ocean steamer of the Currie Line, carrying passengers to England from South African ports, struck on a reef near Ushant, and foundered with...