The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, Through the Upper Valleys of the HimalayaW. Blackwood and Sons, 1875 - 475 էջ |
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... are of any value , -which I am by no means sure of . If there were any merit at all in my journey it lay only in the condition of body in which I commenced it and carried it through , and in the determination PREFACE . V.
... are of any value , -which I am by no means sure of . If there were any merit at all in my journey it lay only in the condition of body in which I commenced it and carried it through , and in the determination PREFACE . V.
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... carried it through , and in the determination with which , despite serious discouragement , I pursued what appeared to be a desperate remedy . My original intention was only to visit Masúri and Simla , and have a distant view of the ...
... carried it through , and in the determination with which , despite serious discouragement , I pursued what appeared to be a desperate remedy . My original intention was only to visit Masúri and Simla , and have a distant view of the ...
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... carried on if every Embassy were to conduct itself in the way that of Paris did ; and I am sure the business of Maga could not be carried on at all if all its contributors were to try its patience as I did . I was much indebted also to ...
... carried on if every Embassy were to conduct itself in the way that of Paris did ; and I am sure the business of Maga could not be carried on at all if all its contributors were to try its patience as I did . I was much indebted also to ...
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... carried me over the great Shigri glacier . A lady writing to me on this subject remarks : " Had I not known you to be scrupulously truthful - in fact , fastidiously careful in the use of language , lest it might convey a shade of ...
... carried me over the great Shigri glacier . A lady writing to me on this subject remarks : " Had I not known you to be scrupulously truthful - in fact , fastidiously careful in the use of language , lest it might convey a shade of ...
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... carry out this system with perfect accuracy one would require not only to have the names before one written in an Indo - Aryan language , but also to be in the habit of dealing with them in such a language . Suffice that I have ...
... carry out this system with perfect accuracy one would require not only to have the names before one written in an Indo - Aryan language , but also to be in the habit of dealing with them in such a language . Suffice that I have ...
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