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the banks of the river; thence, in a straight line, through this beacon to a beacon (No. 9), erected on the top of the same range, about 1,700 yards distant from beacon No. 10; thence in a straight line to a beacon (No. 8) erected on the highest point of an isolated hill called
Dikgagong , or "Wildebeest Kop," situated south-eastward of and about
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Moshweu, situated to the northward of and about two miles distant from a large isolated hill
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thence up the course of the
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which superseded it. These conventions settled the bounds of the ZAR, which subsisted until it was annexed to the
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Temp. closed – Impassable when the Limpopo is in flood.
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1461:22 August
1284:Pontdrif
1156:Zanzibar
545:Makopong
298:Botswana
252:Crossings
64:Geography
1604:Zimbabwe
1584:Eswatini
1579:Botswana
1528:Zimbabwe
1435:25 April
1275:Pontdrif
1219:Platjan
1147:Zanzibar
877:Tlokweng
810:Ramotswa
536:Makopong
290:Gaborone
286:Mahikeng
215:and the
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