Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 167J. Mason., 1900 |
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Արդյունքներ 77–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... 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 survey , no ...
... 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 survey , no ...
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... villages in the dis- trict . When he started it had been the white man's intention to run the gauntlet , trusting to the Malays ' respect for their unbroken rest at night to carry him safely past all dangers be- fore the coming of the ...
... villages in the dis- trict . When he started it had been the white man's intention to run the gauntlet , trusting to the Malays ' respect for their unbroken rest at night to carry him safely past all dangers be- fore the coming of the ...
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... village . For aught they know to the contrary , word may have been brought that they are on the road , and their enemies may be lying in wait for them . From behind the last boulder the white man looks out cau- tiously . The village ...
... village . For aught they know to the contrary , word may have been brought that they are on the road , and their enemies may be lying in wait for them . From behind the last boulder the white man looks out cau- tiously . The village ...
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... villages can do nought against the Bûdu men , since we lack arms , else I would surely accompany thee through the ... village fresh rumours reach them of the waiting enemy ahead . On reaching the right bank of the river the white man ...
... villages can do nought against the Bûdu men , since we lack arms , else I would surely accompany thee through the ... village fresh rumours reach them of the waiting enemy ahead . On reaching the right bank of the river the white man ...
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... villages can be seen peeping through groves of cocoanuts ; bright green strips of grazing - ground and rice - swamp lie on either hand ; overhead the low clouds are dull grey in colour . The Sikhs squat in little clusters eating their ...
... villages can be seen peeping through groves of cocoanuts ; bright green strips of grazing - ground and rice - swamp lie on either hand ; overhead the low clouds are dull grey in colour . The Sikhs squat in little clusters eating their ...
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