Early White Travellers in the Transgariep, 1819-1840Karel Schoeman Early White Travellers in the Transgariep is a survey of early white contact with the region, and more especially of the written accounts left by the first travellers there. White hunters from the Cape Colony visited the area now known at the Free State from the end of the eighteenth century. In 1825 seasonal migration to the region by white farmers was officially allowed, which soon developed into permanent settlement; in 1838 a Trekker party acquired the area around the modern Winburg from its original black inhabitants, in 1846 a British Resident settled at Bloemfontein, and two years later British sovereignty was proclaimed over the area. |
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... Grootrivier to be impassable . " In December 1777 R.J. Gordon reached Grootrivier at a place approximately opposite the modern town of Bethulie and named it the Orange , 10 although the earlier Dutch name and its English trans- lation ...
... Grootrivier to be impassable . " In December 1777 R.J. Gordon reached Grootrivier at a place approximately opposite the modern town of Bethulie and named it the Orange , 10 although the earlier Dutch name and its English trans- lation ...
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... Groot- rivier and the Caledon and established contact with the various tribes inhabiting the Caledon River valley ... Grootrivier at the farm of Daniel Erasmus.30 During our travels we saw no natives except small groups of Bushmen ...
... Groot- rivier and the Caledon and established contact with the various tribes inhabiting the Caledon River valley ... Grootrivier at the farm of Daniel Erasmus.30 During our travels we saw no natives except small groups of Bushmen ...
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Karel Schoeman. tives or human beings , 43 and from there we went to Grootrivier again . On my journey back along Kornetspruit to Grootrivier , I saw about 30 or 40 natives to the east of Kornetspruit , they had a few cattle , and they ...
Karel Schoeman. tives or human beings , 43 and from there we went to Grootrivier again . On my journey back along Kornetspruit to Grootrivier , I saw about 30 or 40 natives to the east of Kornetspruit , they had a few cattle , and they ...
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Abbreviations and notes | 8 |
The journey of John Melvill and G A Kolbe | 30 |
Two exploratory journeys 1833 | 43 |
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