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Sep 13, 2026
Dez LathamHOST
Matabeleland, he thought, contained both gold and agricultural possibilities.
Dez LathamHOST
Maund traveled back to the Colonial Office in London in October 1885, and while there he bumped into Cecil John Rhodes.
Dez LathamHOST
They had spoken about the opportunities to the north of the Limpopo.
Dez LathamHOST
Warren was also in London publicising his view of a humanitarian-based imperial vision in a speech covered by a Times newspaper journalist.
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Dez LathamHOST
Edward Maund re-enters this picture, stage right.
Dez LathamHOST
An ominous development for Rhodes, whose plans to take over Matabeleland and Mashonaland appear to be in tatters.
Dez LathamHOST
This is where his networking paid off, because old friend Robert Herbert was now undersecretary in the Colonial Office.
Dez LathamHOST
At the age of 28, Herbert had become the first Prime Minister of Queensland in Australia, and back in London in 1887, he had a keen interest in the colonies, including South Africa.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
He had a right to be anxious.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
His whole future in the colonial office would be made or ruined by what was going to happen here.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
the joint space navy colonial office expedition was looking for new planets suitable for colonization they had been out now for four years which was close to maximum for an exploring expedition they had entered eleven systems and made landings on eight planets Three had been reasonably close to Terra-type.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
There had been Fafnir.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
Conditions there would correspond to Terra during the Cretaceous period, but any Cretaceous dinosaur would have been cute and cuddly to the things on Fafnir.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
He'd had a limp himself for a while as a result.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
As for the other five, one had been an all-out hell planet, and the rest had been the sort that get colonized by irreconcilable minority groups who want to get away from everybody else.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
the colonial office wouldn't even consider any of them then they had found this one third of a geo star eighty million miles from primary less axial inclination than terra which would mean a more uniform year-round temperature and about half land surface on the evidence of a couple of sneak landings for specimens the biochemistry was identical with terra's and the organic matter was edible it was the sort of planet every explorer dreams of finding except for one thing It was inhabited by a sapient humanoid race, and some of them were civilized enough to put it in Class V, and colonial office doctrine in Class V planets was rigid.
David WalesNARRATOR
Little more eventful ever broke the monotony of their feuds and friendships than the visit of one of the ships forming the West Indian Squadron.
David WalesNARRATOR
Their Lilliputian politics went on from year to year, undisturbed and uncared for; there was nothing to mark the place in the world but a dusty pigeonhole somewhere in the Colonial Office, which was filled and emptied and filled again.
David WalesNARRATOR
Every one was poor, and every one lazily hopeless of any future development.
David WalesNARRATOR
A few schooners that came and went at infrequent intervals sufficed for all the trade there was, and the whole air of the sleepy settlement had been one of indolent acquiescence in its own obscurity.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
The land appeared high and good, and to the south-west we saw two large ridges of mountains, with two heads with the appearance of the entrance of a river between them, which we supposed to be the sea-coast.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
we saw to the northward and westward many hills of those which appeared rocky but to all appearance more open to the northward in the latter part of the day after we had got over the first ridge of mountains we fell in with a vast number of kangaroos here we were fortunate again for wilson killed one of them which was a great refreshment to us the two headlands the party saw to the south-west which they supposed to be near the sea-coast are formed by a break in the kookbundoon range through which the kookbundoon river flows and may be seen from several hills around voral and moss vale Governor Macquarie, when ascending the Mittagong Range from Bongbong on November 3rd, 1820, also noticed this headland appearance, and wrote that he gave the name of Barnard Ridge to a remarkable headland south-east, should have been south-west, RHC, of us 36 miles, and which connects with Cockbundoon Range, in honour of Mr Barnard of the Colonial Office.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
The two abrupt terminal points in the Cookpundoon Range, standing above the lower country adjacent, certainly appear like headlands in the distant view from the north-east.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
But on a closer approach, or when viewed from other directions, the appearance changes.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
we saw to the northward and westward many hills of those which appeared rocky but to all appearance more open to the northward in the latter part of the day after we had got over the first ridge of mountains we fell in with a vast number of kangaroos here we were fortunate again for wilson killed one of them which was a great refreshment to us The two headlands the party saw to the south-west, which they suppose to be near the sea-coast, are formed by a break in the Cookbundoon range, through which the Cookbundoon River flows, and may be seen from several hills around Boral and Moss Vale.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
Governor Macquarie, when ascending the Mittagong Range from Bongbong on November 3rd, 1820, also noticed this headland appearance, and wrote that he gave the name of Barnard Ridge to a remarkable headland south-east, should have been south-west, RHC, of us 36 miles, and which connects with Cockbundoon Range in honour of Mr Barnard of the Colonial Office.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
The two abrupt terminal points in the Cookpundoon Range, standing above the lower country adjacent, certainly appear like headlands in a distant view from the north-east.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
But on a closer approach, or when viewed from other directions, the appearance changes.
speaker_3NARRATOR
the fracture was appearing.
speaker_3NARRATOR
By 1817, Sir John was writing to the colonial office in London that if the much-discussed potential colonial legislature was approved, that he should sit on it.
speaker_3NARRATOR
He also added that he intended to write again soon about
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
By the next opportunity I will furnish Lord Bathurst with my opinion at length of the very impolitic levelling measures of this government.
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speaker_3NARRATOR
And the price for state support always comes with strings attached.
speaker_3NARRATOR
And in this case, those strings included reading the occasional government proclamation as directed.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Governor Macquarie did not have the power to sack a Minister of Religion, so he wrote complaints both to the Colonial Office in London and the Archbishop of Canterbury that the Reverend Marsden was not following orders.
speaker_3NARRATOR
orders.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
The land appeared high and good, and to the south-west we saw two large ridges of mountains, with two heads with the appearance of the entrance of a river between them, which we supposed to be the sea-coast.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
we saw to the northward and westward many hills of those which appeared rocky but to all appearance more open to the northward in the latter part of the day after we had got over the first ridge of mountains we fell in with a vast number of kangaroos here we were fortunate again for wilson killed one of them which was a great refreshment to us the two headlands the party saw to the south-west which they supposed to be near the sea-coast are formed by a break in the kookbundoon range through which the kookbundoon river flows and may be seen from several hills around boral and moss vale Governor Macquarie, when ascending the Mittagong Range from Bongbong on November 3rd, 1820, also noticed this headland appearance, and wrote that he gave the name of Barnard Ridge to a remarkable headland south-east, should have been south-west, RHC, of us 36 miles, and which connects with Cockbundoon Range, in honour of Mr Barnard of the Colonial Office.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
The two abrupt terminal points in the Cookpundoon Range, standing above the lower country adjacent, certainly appear like headlands in a distant view from the north-east.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
But on a closer approach, or when viewed from other directions, the appearance changes.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
The land appeared high and good, and to the south-west we saw two large ridges of mountains, with two heads with the appearance of the entrance of a river between them, which we supposed to be the sea-coast.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
we saw to the northward and westward many hills of those which appeared rocky but to all appearance more open to the northward in the latter part of the day after we had got over the first ridge of mountains we fell in with a vast number of kangaroos here we were fortunate again for wilson killed one of them which was a great refreshment to us the two headlands the party saw to the south-west which they supposed to be near the sea-coast are formed by a break in the kookbundoon range through which the kookbundoon river flows and may be seen from several hills around voral and moss vale Governor Macquarie, when ascending the Mittagong Range from Bongbong on November 3rd, 1820, also noticed this headland appearance, and wrote that he gave the name of Barnard Ridge to a remarkable headland south-east, should have been south-west, RHC, of us 36 miles, and which connects with Cockbundoon Range in honour of Mr Barnard of the Colonial Office.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
The two abrupt terminal points in the Cookpundoon Range, standing above the lower country adjacent, certainly appear like headlands in a distant view from the north-east.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
But on a closer approach, or when viewed from other directions, the appearance changes.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
The land appeared high and good, and to the south-west we saw two large ridges of mountains, with two heads with the appearance of the entrance of a river between them, which we supposed to be the sea-coast.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
we saw to the northward and westward many hills of those which appeared rocky but to all appearance more open to the northward in the latter part of the day after we had got over the first ridge of mountains we fell in with a vast number of kangaroos here we were fortunate again for wilson killed one of them which was a great refreshment to us the two headlands the party saw to the south-west which they supposed to be near the sea-coast are formed by a break in the kookbundoon range through which the kookbundoon river flows and may be seen from several hills around voral and moss vale Governor Macquarie, when ascending the Mittagong Range from Bongbong on November 3rd, 1820, also noticed this headland appearance, and wrote that he gave the name of Barnard Ridge to a remarkable headland south-east, should have been south-west, RHC, of us 36 miles, and which connects with Cockbundoon Range, in honour of Mr Barnard of the Colonial Office.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
The two abrupt terminal points in the Cookpundoon Range, standing above the lower country adjacent, certainly appear like headlands in the distant view from the north-east.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
But on a closer approach, or when viewed from other directions, the appearance changes.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
Here we were fortunate again, for Wilson killed one of them, which was a great refreshment to us.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
the two headlands the party saw to the south-west which they supposed to be near the sea-coast are formed by a break in the kookbundoon range through which the kookbundoon river flows and may be seen from several hills around boral and moss vale Governor Macquarie, when ascending the Mittagong Range from Bongbong on November 3rd, 1820, also noticed this headland appearance, and wrote that he gave the name of Barnard Ridge to a remarkable headland south-east, should have been south-west, RHC, of us 36 miles, and which connects with Cockbundoon Range in honour of Mr Barnard of the Colonial Office.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
The two abrupt terminal points in the Cookpundoon Range, standing above the lower country adjacent, certainly appear like headlands in a distant view from the north-east.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
But on a closer approach, or when viewed from other directions, the appearance changes.
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