Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 275William Blackwood, 1954 - England |
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Page 125
The beach is the threshold of an Indian village -the place of greeting and parting . We dropped our anchor between a small island and the great rugged cliff , topped with moss - laden firs , that bounded one end of the beach .
The beach is the threshold of an Indian village -the place of greeting and parting . We dropped our anchor between a small island and the great rugged cliff , topped with moss - laden firs , that bounded one end of the beach .
Page 136
I left the bosun trying to sketch the thunder - bird , and the other two picking up old blue trading - beads , and beat my way through the nettles to a burial tree that I had spotted behind the village . It was an immense fir , seven or ...
I left the bosun trying to sketch the thunder - bird , and the other two picking up old blue trading - beads , and beat my way through the nettles to a burial tree that I had spotted behind the village . It was an immense fir , seven or ...
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That same afternoon we were dismayed to find ourselves close to a village called - Chaubisho : another and more important Chaubisho than the one near Api . To which of these two would Nima come ? If he came south and we went north ...
That same afternoon we were dismayed to find ourselves close to a village called - Chaubisho : another and more important Chaubisho than the one near Api . To which of these two would Nima come ? If he came south and we went north ...
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