Gaberones
Britishnoun
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Birthday gifts came streaming into the dusty, desertside capital of Gaberones.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In the middle of January, 1900, he reached Gaberones.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
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In the middle of March he advanced as far south as Lobatsi, which is less than fifty miles from Mafeking; but the enemy proved to be too strong, and Plumer had to drop back again with some loss to his original position at Gaberones.
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