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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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miles distant from a high hill, called Moripe ; thence in a straight line to a beacon (No. 7) erected on the summit of an isolated hill or "koppie" forming the eastern extremity of the range of hills called
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
Limpopo River to the point where the Marique River falls into it. Thence up the course of the Marique River to "Derde Poort," where it passes through a low range of hills, called Sikwane, a beacon (No. 10) being erected on the spur of said range near to, and westward of,
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which superseded it.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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1136:Zanzibar
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