Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 291W. Blackwood, 1962 - England |
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Page 233
The Canadian Govern- ment was at that time offering free homesteads of 160 acres of wild virgin land to emigrants to the North- West Territories . The cost was only ten dollars , and to secure the land the emigrant had to live on it for ...
The Canadian Govern- ment was at that time offering free homesteads of 160 acres of wild virgin land to emigrants to the North- West Territories . The cost was only ten dollars , and to secure the land the emigrant had to live on it for ...
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Heaven born ' they called him when he was alive , and he and his com- panions certainly earned a good reward ; for , forsaking their families and home - land , they came to bring justice , peace and plenty to this dark land and to oust ...
Heaven born ' they called him when he was alive , and he and his com- panions certainly earned a good reward ; for , forsaking their families and home - land , they came to bring justice , peace and plenty to this dark land and to oust ...
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But there is no light , no land ; only the growing domestic uproar of a hundred thousand gulls and the conk ! conk ! conk ! of the penguins and the sharp ammoniac smell of weed and dung . We bear west when at last we hear the slow surf ...
But there is no light , no land ; only the growing domestic uproar of a hundred thousand gulls and the conk ! conk ! conk ! of the penguins and the sharp ammoniac smell of weed and dung . We bear west when at last we hear the slow surf ...
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Contents
THE GERMAN CHARACTER BY R L SEDGWICK | 42 |
A FIREWALKING CEREMONY BY BARBARA GUNN | 61 |
THE LAST CONTINENT BY RICHARD BEAUCHAMP | 270 |
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