Narrative of a journey round the world, Том 1Hurst & Blackett, 1853 |
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... wide unbroken ocean - like plain , affording pasture to innumerable heads of cattle , and the scene of many a bloody battle fought to free and to subdue a people . After a couple of hours ' easy gallop we reached the place of our ...
... wide unbroken ocean - like plain , affording pasture to innumerable heads of cattle , and the scene of many a bloody battle fought to free and to subdue a people . After a couple of hours ' easy gallop we reached the place of our ...
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... wide plains . Wild ducks and geese , swans , cranes and flamingos , fly about in swarms , or float on the shallow and unwholesome waters . We only went out once with our guns , and then , although , in fact , it was more to see the game ...
... wide plains . Wild ducks and geese , swans , cranes and flamingos , fly about in swarms , or float on the shallow and unwholesome waters . We only went out once with our guns , and then , although , in fact , it was more to see the game ...
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... - ment , for the wide - spreading branches of the wet and spongy wood , could never be able to support them- selves , and indeed require to be sustained by props from the roots , which spring up to meet them ROUND THE WORLD . 53.
... - ment , for the wide - spreading branches of the wet and spongy wood , could never be able to support them- selves , and indeed require to be sustained by props from the roots , which spring up to meet them ROUND THE WORLD . 53.
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... wide corral or enclosure , where a couple of hundred head of cattle were collected , and who tried to separate a part of them from the rest . One of the horsemen was a most conspicuous figure an old tall bony fellow , some fifty - six ...
... wide corral or enclosure , where a couple of hundred head of cattle were collected , and who tried to separate a part of them from the rest . One of the horsemen was a most conspicuous figure an old tall bony fellow , some fifty - six ...
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... denizens were as squalid , and the maté - tubes as hot . At the same time the hut lay dull and lonesome in the wide and open plain , no field , no garden at hand , not even an enclosure for horses 74 FIVE YEARS ' JOURNEY.
... denizens were as squalid , and the maté - tubes as hot . At the same time the hut lay dull and lonesome in the wide and open plain , no field , no garden at hand , not even an enclosure for horses 74 FIVE YEARS ' JOURNEY.
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