damaralands

Updated: June 23, 2025

When we arrived at the northern seaport it had been in our possession many weeks, but our troops were occupying the trenches just outside the town, and from the Damaralands Building Tower our look-out and signallers could see through the heat-haze the enemy's patrols moving to and fro in the glistening sands beyond.

Eric Moore Ritchie - With Botha in the Field

So I say press and still press there, destroy the railway to the Lakes, burn her capital, pen up every Englishman in Mombasa island. At this moment it is worth for you a thousand Damaralands. The man was really interested and the Under-Secretary, too, pricked up his ears. 'We can keep our territory, said the former; 'but as for pressing, how the devil are we to press?

John Buchan - Greenmantle