Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 167J. Mason., 1900 |
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... miles from Hyde Park Corner , over strange lands and jostling seas , and time has slipped back more than half - a - dozen years . It is no longer the asphalte and the wooden pavements that lie below me , for my feet are tread- ing the ...
... miles from Hyde Park Corner , over strange lands and jostling seas , and time has slipped back more than half - a - dozen years . It is no longer the asphalte and the wooden pavements that lie below me , for my feet are tread- ing the ...
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... , and was written from a place on the borders of the State , forty miles distant from the isolated post which the white man and his com- rades have been holding for the past three months . 1900. ] 9 Bush - whacking .
... , and was written from a place on the borders of the State , forty miles distant from the isolated post which the white man and his com- rades have been holding for the past three months . 1900. ] 9 Bush - whacking .
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... miles of forest , cut across and across by narrow rivers of varying size , on the banks of which native villages are sparsely scattered . In the white man's head there is a chart of this country , with its winding streams , its threads ...
... miles of forest , cut across and across by narrow rivers of varying size , on the banks of which native villages are sparsely scattered . In the white man's head there is a chart of this country , with its winding streams , its threads ...
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... miles they reach a point where the bridle - track ceases on the brink of a river . On the op- posite bank it is visible , in the light of the moon , which has now risen , running in a white streak up from the river's brink , and falling ...
... miles they reach a point where the bridle - track ceases on the brink of a river . On the op- posite bank it is visible , in the light of the moon , which has now risen , running in a white streak up from the river's brink , and falling ...
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... miles in his rear ; the camp for which he is bound is twice that distance ahead ; to remain where he is even for a day will mean certain death ; even to trust to the good faith of villagers who are nominally friendly is very risky ...
... miles in his rear ; the camp for which he is bound is twice that distance ahead ; to remain where he is even for a day will mean certain death ; even to trust to the good faith of villagers who are nominally friendly is very risky ...
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