Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 159
716 and wild beasts were troublesome, but theplucky white men held on, and finally beganto prosper. In 1654 the first Boers (the word Boer,pronounced boor, means a peasant farmer,like the German Bauer), mainly Dutch, but in IX SOUTH AFRICA. [June least, the Dutch and the English lived asfriendly… … some cases Germans, began to arrive, and alittle later the Huguenots driven from Francejoined them. The introduction of slaves began ten yearsafter the founding of the colony, and soon therewere more blacks than Europeans. As the number of people in the colony in-creased, and some of them grew much…
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