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  • Not quite as historic as the flooding of the fields, when some of the farmers clambered up to a flat spot called the Savanne, where there was no water, and erected the village of Ti Kay

    Thestar.com - Home Page Jennifer Wells 2010

  • It is a place called Savanne de boeuf, which translates roughly as Desert of the Cows.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • Renamo military chief Mateus Ngonyamo flew to Savanne assembly point in central Mozambique at the weekend to speak to disgruntled ex-guerrillas who set up barricades and blocked civilian traffic from Beira city to the south bank of the River Zambezi.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • It said heavily-armed Renamo men began their blockade on Friday at Savanne, about 70 km (40 miles) north of the port of Beira, near a demobilisation camp.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Savanne, about 70 km (40 miles) north of the port of Beira, near a demobilisation camp.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Renamo military chief Mateus Ngonyamo flew to Savanne assembly point in central Mozambique at the weekend to speak to disgruntled ex-guerrillas who set up barricades and blocked civilian traffic from Beira city to the south bank of the River Zambezi.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • She explained that Ti Femme used to come down to Gonaives to buy cornmeal, which she then sold at a profit in Ennery and Savanne Carée.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • Savanne connecting through a long chain of lakes and rivers with Lake

    Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians Edward Francis Wilson

  • The composition of the soil of Canada East, taken from a tract which is there known by the name of Savanne of St. Dominique, is composed, according to Mr. Hunt, of

    Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds 1858

  • Savanne -- and to the west by the Plains of St. Piérre.

    A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794

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