Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 297William Blackwood, 1965 - England |
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Page 42
We drove slowly past the site but there was not a trace of our occupation . The riverbank , however , had hardly changed in the past twenty years . There was the usual gaggle of canoes , sampans , rafts and little motor - boats ( pom ...
We drove slowly past the site but there was not a trace of our occupation . The riverbank , however , had hardly changed in the past twenty years . There was the usual gaggle of canoes , sampans , rafts and little motor - boats ( pom ...
Page 182
At twenty minutes past four in the morning ( twenty minutes past three mainland time ) , a soft knock comes on my cabin door and a low call without . It is the summons for leaving . I peep out to see the boat boy of the Capre stealing ...
At twenty minutes past four in the morning ( twenty minutes past three mainland time ) , a soft knock comes on my cabin door and a low call without . It is the summons for leaving . I peep out to see the boat boy of the Capre stealing ...
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This is a sensitive , fastidious traveller who goes with his eyes often on the past . He would disdain , the reader feels , to pad out his pages with the casual encounters and often irrelevant gossip of many present - day travel books .
This is a sensitive , fastidious traveller who goes with his eyes often on the past . He would disdain , the reader feels , to pad out his pages with the casual encounters and often irrelevant gossip of many present - day travel books .
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Contents
A BIT OF A DUSTING BY W RUTHERFORD | 96 |
ACROSS THE WALL OF TEARS BY JOHN PEMBROKE | 288 |
MR CHIPLUNKAR | 384 |
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