Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 240William Blackwood, 1936 - England |
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... miles off the coast of the estuary and roughly twenty miles seaward from the actual mouth of the river . During the height of the monsoon , however , the pilot - commander , in the days of the old pilot - brig , preferred to have more ...
... miles off the coast of the estuary and roughly twenty miles seaward from the actual mouth of the river . During the height of the monsoon , however , the pilot - commander , in the days of the old pilot - brig , preferred to have more ...
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... miles north of Cape Town , off one of the most dangerous coasts in the world . I was navigator , peering ahead through the aching South African sunshine in the hope of recognising a point on the chart marked as Cape Colum- bine . To ...
... miles north of Cape Town , off one of the most dangerous coasts in the world . I was navigator , peering ahead through the aching South African sunshine in the hope of recognising a point on the chart marked as Cape Colum- bine . To ...
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... mile journey to Lodwar , headquarters of Turkana , with my boy Juma and a good load of supplies . About twenty miles from Kitale we were confronted with a barrier , and here my permit to enter the ' closed district ' of Turkana was ...
... mile journey to Lodwar , headquarters of Turkana , with my boy Juma and a good load of supplies . About twenty miles from Kitale we were confronted with a barrier , and here my permit to enter the ' closed district ' of Turkana was ...
Contents
AN ASSAULT ON RUWENZORI | 140 |
VERSITY OF | 193 |
ACROSS THE THRESHOLD BY JAMES LORIMER | 230 |
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