A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-warWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1882 - 389 páginas |
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... passing through the press , I have received details from various sources , which prove that the policy referred to at p . 241 is being actively carried out . Not content with holding the Marquesas , the Paumotus , Tahiti , and the ...
... passing through the press , I have received details from various sources , which prove that the policy referred to at p . 241 is being actively carried out . Not content with holding the Marquesas , the Paumotus , Tahiti , and the ...
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... passed long rows of thatched houses embowered in flowering shrubs , with banana and pine - apple gardens . These are the homes of the mission students and their families , —all very tidy , and with well - kept grass paths and green lawn ...
... passed long rows of thatched houses embowered in flowering shrubs , with banana and pine - apple gardens . These are the homes of the mission students and their families , —all very tidy , and with well - kept grass paths and green lawn ...
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... passed away for ever from the poor dead clay . This ceremony was repeated on fourteen successive nights . The mystery in all antiquities of this sort lies in the problem , how a race possessed only of stone adzes could possibly have ...
... passed away for ever from the poor dead clay . This ceremony was repeated on fourteen successive nights . The mystery in all antiquities of this sort lies in the problem , how a race possessed only of stone adzes could possibly have ...
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... in many places matted with such tangles of large , brilliantly blue convolvulus as I have seen nowhere else but in the Himalayas . The lilac marine ipomea abounds everywhere , and we B passed dense masses of the large - leaved white sort.
... in many places matted with such tangles of large , brilliantly blue convolvulus as I have seen nowhere else but in the Himalayas . The lilac marine ipomea abounds everywhere , and we B passed dense masses of the large - leaved white sort.
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Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming. passed dense masses of the large - leaved white sort . From these lovely hiding - places flashed green pigeons and blue kingfishers , startled by our approach . Tall sugar - cane , wild ginger with ...
Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming. passed dense masses of the large - leaved white sort . From these lovely hiding - places flashed green pigeons and blue kingfishers , startled by our approach . Tall sugar - cane , wild ginger with ...
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