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    William Cornwallis Harris (baptised 2 April 1807 – died 9 October 1848) was an English military engineer, artist and hunter. The son of James Harris of...
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    577 Nitro Express double rifle by Westley Richards. Major Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848) was an English military engineer, artist, naturalist...
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    trader; Andrew Smith, medical doctor, ethnologist and zoologist; William Cornwallis Harris, hunter; and the missionary explorer David Livingstone. After...
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  • Marine Corps officer William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848), English military engineer, artist and hunter Sir William Gordon Harris (1912–2005), British...
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    missionaries in 1837 led to a diplomatic mission from Britain by William Cornwallis Harris, both men were gently but firmly expelled in 1842. Abir, Mordechai...
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    Harris, Sir William Cornwallis (1844). The Highlands of Æthiopia. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. pp. 179–180. Harris, Sir William Cornwallis (1844)...
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    known as the Colony of Southern Rhodesia." Stella Madzibamuto v Desmond William Larder – Burke, Fredrick Phillip George (1969) A.C 645 – Authority for...
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    during this time, that Sagallo was visited by the Englishman William Cornwallis Harris on his way to Ankobar, in the year 1841. His assistant surgeon...
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    counterparts. Between 1841-1843, the English traveller Major William Cornwallis Harris captured the prevailing political atmosphere and attitudes of...
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    tusks at the first. In 1836, William Cornwallis Harris led an expedition to observe and record wildlife and landscapes. Harris established the safari style...
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    and Aussa, "rather than that of Harar or the Ogaden." He quotes William Cornwallis Harris' description of an annual bazaar that started each September,...
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    Voice for the panel game Twenty Questions. James Harris - father of Major Sir William Cornwallis Harris, military engineer, artist and hunter[citation needed]...
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  • Matebele kraal, as depicted by William Cornwallis Harris (1836)...
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  • Tulama Tulama who lived in the Shewa province of Ethiopia. In 1841 William Cornwallis Harris mentioned them as allies of King Sahle Silassie of Shewa. The...
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  • visitors who described this practice included the British traveller William Cornwallis Harris and Dr. Petit of the French scientific mission of 1839–1841. Inoculation...
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    Haile Mikael Sahle Selassie and Darge Sahle Selassie. During William Cornwallis Harris diplomatic mission to Sahle Selassie's court, both Hailemelekot...
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  • Abir states that he ruled for 25 years, although noting that William Cornwallis Harris claims he ruled for 15 years, Coulbeaux for 25 (from 1725 to 1750)...
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    William Cornwallis Harris, The Highlands of Aethiopia, volume 2, p. 269 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35369/35369-h/35369-h.htm William Cornwallis Harris...
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  • boundaries of the modern Semien Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region. William Cornwallis Harris described Menz as lying "westward" of Gedem but between that former...
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    Free State is that of the British military engineer and hunter William Cornwallis Harris. His 1840 account reads as follows: The geographical range of...
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  • steady stream of travellers visited Ankober, including Captain William Cornwallis Harris. Following the death of Meridazmach Sahle Selassie in 1847, the...
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  • Mrs. Trimmer. He was born on 9 July 1809; Sir William Cornwallis Harris was his elder brother. Robert Harris entered the navy in January 1822, and, serving...
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    Common tsessebe (category Taxa named by William John Burchell)
    animal was first published posthumously in 1820 by his brother. William Cornwallis Harris, in his 1840 book about big game hunting, was quite familiar with...
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    explorer William Cornwallis Harris, whom David Buxton states first encountered this volcano and its lava beds in 1842. By questioning the natives, Harris concluded...
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    that became Bechuanaland and then Botswana by the Englishman William Cornwallis Harris in 1836, followed by other white European riders in the 1840s...
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    King Mzilikazi, as portrayed by Captain William Cornwallis Harris, circa 1836...
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    sending 250 each month, and instructed Jameson, Dr Frederick Rutherfoord Harris and a Shoshong trader, George Musson, to convey them to Bulawayo. Lobengula...
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    Cunningham Sir Henry Marion Durand Vincent Eyre Hugh Fraser William Cornwallis Harris John Jacob Sir Atwell Lake Sir Henry Lawrence Sir Robert Montgomery...
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    Harris Harding Bligh was born on April 14, 1842, in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia (now known as Cornwallis Park). He received a BA in 1864, an MA in 1867, and...
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  • Indian government under the leadership of Major (afterwards Sir) William Cornwallis Harris, and explored Gojjam and more southern regions up to that time...
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