Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 294W. Blackwood, 1963 - England |
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Page 120
The train had a long way to travel , and would probably be delayed several times on the journey by tribesmen sleeping on the track , accidents with animals , and trucks abandoned on road crossings . According to the published schedule ...
The train had a long way to travel , and would probably be delayed several times on the journey by tribesmen sleeping on the track , accidents with animals , and trucks abandoned on road crossings . According to the published schedule ...
Page 123
The next day's journey was as dull as the country through which the train travelled . It throbbed eastwards on the narrow gauge at a stately twenty - five miles an hour , and was occasionally overtaken by flocks of mouse - birds ...
The next day's journey was as dull as the country through which the train travelled . It throbbed eastwards on the narrow gauge at a stately twenty - five miles an hour , and was occasionally overtaken by flocks of mouse - birds ...
Page 545
Every few hours the train sauntered to a stop . It might be only a watertank beside the line at a telegraph station , a name on a board where a few black aborigines in tattered garments appeared out of the scrub to stand and stare at ...
Every few hours the train sauntered to a stop . It might be only a watertank beside the line at a telegraph station , a name on a board where a few black aborigines in tattered garments appeared out of the scrub to stand and stare at ...
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