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Ch. 2: The Traditional Ophir Land

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80 THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA
immigration of men there was an equally shrewd effort on the part of the company to advance the breeding of horses, cattle, and sheep. Stallions were imported from Persia to improve the stock, which had been falling off in size and quality though increasing in number. Spanish rams were used to lay the foundation of the South African breed of meri­nos, and the Angora goats bore transplacing excellently, and soon
browsed greedily on the coarse grasses of the Cape.
By the advances of the voortrekkers or pioneer farmers the range of settlement was extended so far in 1761 that the start of
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