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Title: War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Harding, William
Subjects: Boer War
Publisher: Chicago : Dominion Co
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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MARKET-SQUARE AND TOWN HALL-IN BLOEMFONTEIN.
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THE PRESIDENCY AT RLOEMFONTEIN, CAPITAL OF ORANGE FREE STATE. EXPLORATIONS IN THE DARK CONTINENT. 143 lake, northward, believed by Specke to be the head reservoir of theNile. Several travelers in 1858 added considerably to the stock of infor-mation above the Upper White Nile, from the Eg-yptian side, while inthe northern part of Africa Duveyrier, a French traveler, explored theSahara Desert south of Algeria. Captain Specke, in i860, accompanied by Captain Grant, again leftZanzibar and reached a point on the northwestern shores of the greatlake which he had previously discovered and which he named theVictoria Nyanza. From there he traced the outflowing river to theWhite Nile at Gondokro, thereby completing a great link in the chainof African discoveries. Dr. Livingstone in the meanwhile had attempted to find a way tohis newly discovered Lake Nyassa, from the mouth of the Rovuma, alarge river ilowing into the Indian Ocean near Cape Delgado, whichwas reported to take its rise in that lak

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  • booksubject:Boer_War
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