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  • The excised land was re-allocated to communal homelands (Owambo, Kaokoland and Damaraland) for the "sole use and occupation by natives" and was effectively lost to conservation.

    Angolan Mopane woodlands 2008

  • Then he made a speciality of the Ngami region, where I once hunted with him, and he was with me when I went prospecting in Damaraland.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • My father took me to Basutoland when I was a boy, and I reckon I have scrambled over almost every bit of upland south of the Zambesi, from the Hottentots Holland to the Zoutpansberg, and from the ugly yellow kopjes of Damaraland to the noble cliffs of Mont aux

    Greenmantle 2005

  • The people who were removed from Riemvasmaak 20 years ago are now living in Damaraland, in the Ciskei and in Kakamas.

    RIEMVASMAAK PICKET 1993

  • New-Barmen, in Damaraland, between South Africa and the Kingdom of

    The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

  • Army Headquarters were fixed at the Damaraland Building close to the shore -- a splendidly equipped edifice, with a tower commanding a fifteen-mile-radius view of the desert and the sea.

    With Botha in the Field Eric Moore Ritchie

  • Damaraland, where it was reported that fountains of water abounded.

    Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane

  • "Ex Africa semper aliquid novo" never was saying truer! and Damaraland, under the British flag, and with scope given to individual enterprise, may well provide still another striking example of that old adage.

    A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell

  • Still farther north, beyond Damaraland is Ovampoland, occupied by the

    Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane

  • Bushmen are now found sporadically may be defined as extending from the inner ranges of the mountains of Cape Colony, through the central Kalahari desert to near Lake Ngami, and thence north-westward to the districts about the Ovambo river north of Damaraland.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

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