Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 167J. Mason., 1900 |
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... fighting up - country , somewhere beyond this endless chain of isolated reaches , and distance helped by the " native telegraph " magni- fies events . Each fresh item of news makes the white man more eager to get forward . The journey ...
... fighting up - country , somewhere beyond this endless chain of isolated reaches , and distance helped by the " native telegraph " magni- fies events . Each fresh item of news makes the white man more eager to get forward . The journey ...
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... fighting are mysterious beings , wholly unlike the natives around them , with whom they have been familiar for years . A foe that deals death without showing itself always impresses the im- agination of those who contend against it . It ...
... fighting are mysterious beings , wholly unlike the natives around them , with whom they have been familiar for years . A foe that deals death without showing itself always impresses the im- agination of those who contend against it . It ...
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... fights for his life to maintain his foot- ing , for , strong swimmer though he be , the river in spate would bear him ... fighting hard in the cause of those who have come and gone upon its banks for countless generations . The white man ...
... fights for his life to maintain his foot- ing , for , strong swimmer though he be , the river in spate would bear him ... fighting hard in the cause of those who have come and gone upon its banks for countless generations . The white man ...
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... fighting for his life with the furious river . The struggle wakes his powers anew . He is no longer the despondent thinker of a few minutes ago ; he is now a man of action , with something to fight with and overcome . As he flounders ...
... fighting for his life with the furious river . The struggle wakes his powers anew . He is no longer the despondent thinker of a few minutes ago ; he is now a man of action , with something to fight with and overcome . As he flounders ...
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... fighting in dense jungle . And it will always be miserable , heart - breaking , squalid , ineffec- tive . A few dead to bury , a few wounded to patch , an enemy that you can't see , that bolts before you can get a fair slap at him ...
... fighting in dense jungle . And it will always be miserable , heart - breaking , squalid , ineffec- tive . A few dead to bury , a few wounded to patch , an enemy that you can't see , that bolts before you can get a fair slap at him ...
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