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Map of Africa, 1794

  • Subjects: Africa , Africa -- Maps
  • Language: English
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:13969 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017489 , CD 55 , MS 10 542 , PIC/SL 4804
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Kreli, Xhosa chief

  • Subjects: Sarhili (Kreli), Xhosa Chief, ca. 1814-1892 -- Photographs , Xhosa (African people) -- Kings and rulers -- Photographs , Gcaleka (African people) -- History -- Photographs
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14148 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , MS 10 542 , CD 55
  • Description: Originally titled "Chief Kreli, son of Hintza. Paramount Chief of all Xhosas". Chief Kreli, also known as King Sarili ka Hintsa, was the 5th chief of the Gcaleka sub-group of the Xhosa people of South Africa, as well as bieng the paramount chief of the Xhosa people. Chief Kreli wsa the oldest son of King Hintsa and Hintsa's first wife, Nomsa kaGambushe.
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Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith

  • Subjects: Smith, Harry George Wakelyn, Sir, 1788-1860
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14140 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018064 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
  • Description: Sir Harry Smith was Governor of the Province of Queen Adelaide from 1835-1840, and Governor of the Cape Colony from 1847-1852.
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Botha's Post Fort (entrance)

First house (prison) built in Grahamstown, 1813

Port Frances (Port Alfred) looking towards old custom house

Young Zulu men

  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14197 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018121 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
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Conference between Col. Hare and Sandilli (sic)

Provost Tower (Military Prison)

British troops in action in action somewhere in Kaffir Land (sic)

  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14213 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018137 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
  • Description: Presumably British Kaffraria.
  • Full Text: false

Alice

High Street, looking east. Troops on parade

- Baines, Thomas, (1820-1875)

Hog's Back Mountain

Old custom house

View of Grahamstown from the north

South Australian Mounted Troops

  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14234 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018158 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
  • Description: Troops participating in the celebration of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee 1897.
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Untitled

  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14246 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018170 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
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Seymour

Kaffir Drift Fort ruins (near view)

  • Subjects: Kaffir Drift -- Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Pictorial works
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14104 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018028 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
  • Description: One of the first in a series of military forts built on the western side of the Great Fish River, between 1813 and 1819, it guarded a drift which was known as the ‘gateway to Kaffraria’.
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Sandilli, Xhosa chief

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