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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 954 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KURUMAN , a See also:

town in the See also:Bechuanaland See also:division of Cape See also:Colony, 12o m. N.W. of See also:Kimberley and 85 m. S.W. of Vryburg. It is a station of the See also:London Missionary Society, founded in 1818, and from 1821 to 187o was the See also:scene of the labours of See also:Robert See also:Moffat (q.v.) who here translated the See also:Bible into the See also:Bechuana See also:tongue. In the See also:middle See also:period of the 19th See also:century Kuruman was the See also:rendezvous of all travellers going See also:north or See also:south. Of these the best known is See also:David See also:Livingstone. The See also:trunk railway See also:line passing considerably to the See also:east of the town, Kuruman is no longer a See also:place of much importance. It is pleasantly situated on the upper course of the Kuruman See also:river, being beautified by gardens and orchards, and presents a striking contrast to the See also:desert conditions of the surrounding See also:country. Its name is that of the son and See also:heir of Mosilikatze, the founder of the See also:Matabele nation. Kuruman disappeared during his See also:father's lifetime and the See also:succession passed to Lobengula (see RuoDESIA: See also:History). In See also:November 1899 the town was besieged by a See also:Boer force. The See also:garrison, less than a See also:hundred strong, held out for six See also:weeks against over loco of the enemy,"but was forced to surrender on the 1st of See also:January 1900.

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June following it was reoccupied by the See also:British.

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