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themselves under the authority of a Roman Catholic 

 Government, and intermixed with Roman Catholic 

 Portuguese, some of the marriages being rather 

 irregular. Others trekked to German South West 

 Africa, but most of these returned, as they could not 

 stand German authority and their stringent rule. 

 Since 1900, some have gone to the Argentine, to 

 Brazil, British East Africa and Rhodesia. When 

 once a Boer sells his farm, he becomes either a loafer 

 about the town, or he treks away to seek undeveloped 

 land, where game is plentiful, labour cheap and life 

 primitive. 



