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The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

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—70 ROUTn AND EAST AFEICA.Ilcreros had, moreover, the good fortune to find a friend in the Swedish travellerAndersson, who in consequence of a sanguinary collision found himself involved inthe fray. By his aid they at last gained the upper h<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> although a war ofreprisals was protracted over many years, <strong>and</strong> has even broken out again in quiteFig. 21.IIeheeo L<strong>and</strong>.Scale 1 : 7,000,000.1,000 F.athoms<strong>and</strong> upw;U'Js.recent times, the respective domains of the two hostile races have been .scarcelymodified since the middle of the present century.At present the Herero territory stretches west of the Ovambos as far as thecoast, <strong>and</strong> southwards as far as the great central highl<strong>and</strong>s traversed by theSwalcop. But the political frontiers are nowhere strictlj^ defined. <strong>The</strong> l<strong>and</strong>belongs to all alike ; Damara <strong>and</strong> Namaqua may encamp wherever they like, <strong>and</strong>in the Herero language there is no word either for "frontier "or for "native

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