Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 167J. Mason., 1900 |
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Արդյունքներ 99–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... native chiefs who have ruled a cowed brown people , melancholy and unresisting , for their own profit and for the satisfaction of their own lusts , with flinty hearts un- fettered by conscience or prin- ciple ; given a strong feudal ...
... native chiefs who have ruled a cowed brown people , melancholy and unresisting , for their own profit and for the satisfaction of their own lusts , with flinty hearts un- fettered by conscience or prin- ciple ; given a strong feudal ...
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... native telegraph " magni- fies events . Each fresh item of news makes the white man more eager to get forward . The journey seems interminable . . He wonders how he will find the patience necessary for 1900. ] 5 Bush - whacking .
... native telegraph " magni- fies events . Each fresh item of news makes the white man more eager to get forward . The journey seems interminable . . He wonders how he will find the patience necessary for 1900. ] 5 Bush - whacking .
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... native villages are sparsely scattered . In the white man's head there is a chart of this country , with its winding streams , its threads of footpath , its hills , its passes , its villages , hostile or friendly . But there is no ...
... native villages are sparsely scattered . In the white man's head there is a chart of this country , with its winding streams , its threads of footpath , its hills , its passes , its villages , hostile or friendly . But there is no ...
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... native foot - track which leads up the left bank of the river , crosses it fifteen miles higher , and rejoins the bridle - road some miles beyond the hostile kam- pongs . His Malay companions now plead with him to follow this longer but ...
... native foot - track which leads up the left bank of the river , crosses it fifteen miles higher , and rejoins the bridle - road some miles beyond the hostile kam- pongs . His Malay companions now plead with him to follow this longer but ...
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... native , he is alone . The man leaps clear , and his hand goes to his dagger - hilt ; then , as he catches a full view of the white man , his eyes bulge , and he turns grey under his brown skin . He mumbles all the pious words he can ...
... native , he is alone . The man leaps clear , and his hand goes to his dagger - hilt ; then , as he catches a full view of the white man , his eyes bulge , and he turns grey under his brown skin . He mumbles all the pious words he can ...
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