Gaberones
Britishnoun
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In the east, near Francistown, Serowe and the tiny, torrid new capital of Gaberones, rainfall permits some crops, mostly maize, sorghum, cowpeas, pumpkins and tobacco.
From Time Magazine Archive
Birthday gifts came streaming into the dusty, desertside capital of Gaberones.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the middle of January, 1900, he reached Gaberones.
From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by
The British Commissioner, before leaving Gaberones, advised the Native Chiefs of the Southern Protectorate to make the best terms possible with the invaders until the Transvaal Republic was conquered by the advancing British Army.
From Native Life in South Africa by Plaatje, Sol (Solomon Tshekisho)
For a long time Gaberones, which is eighty miles north of Mafeking, remained his headquarters, and thence he kept up precarious communications with the besieged garrison.
From The Great Boer War by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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