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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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A BOER FAMILY OF SHARPSHOOTERS AT JOHANNESBURG.
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THE NATAL INFANTRY ON FIELD SERVICE. CHAPTER V. THE GOLD AND DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA. When the British forces left the Transvaal, the resources of theBoers were few and the treasury was empty. There were no railroads,and it was forty days travel by ox-cart to Cape Town. A man named Arnold, in 1884, told a farmer named Geldenhuis thatthere was gold on his land. Geldenhuis did not believe it, but repeatedthe gossip and sold his farm to two adventurous brothers named Stru-ben, who put up a mill and began to work the grayish, powdery dirtthat has since proved the richest gold ore the earth has ever shown. The Boer Government proclaimed nine farms public goldfields.Then the rush began. The Boers, always slow where enterprise winsout, were unbelieving. They could not make up their minds to abandonthe certainty of cow-punching for the uncertainty of mining, even withrich claims crying for takers. Only a few settled on the Witwatersrandand went to work. In the meantime the news of the f

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