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Page 129
He seemed to have a sixth sense which told him when danger was close . Our Gurkhas had also developed the same perception over the many years spent on jungle operations , and this accounted for our reluctant tolerance where Dad's noises ...
He seemed to have a sixth sense which told him when danger was close . Our Gurkhas had also developed the same perception over the many years spent on jungle operations , and this accounted for our reluctant tolerance where Dad's noises ...
Page 197
I found myself losing I horizon and direction as the plane swung close in to the ice . The crewman was piling the logs over the trap door in the plane's floor . We turned again , and saw men from the hut standing at their doorway .
I found myself losing I horizon and direction as the plane swung close in to the ice . The crewman was piling the logs over the trap door in the plane's floor . We turned again , and saw men from the hut standing at their doorway .
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It seemed so close before it slid past us , withou * noise , into the night . My mind was deluged by the images that roared through : tablecloths , starched and white , silver buttons on the barmen's jackets , gold braid by the binnacle ...
It seemed so close before it slid past us , withou * noise , into the night . My mind was deluged by the images that roared through : tablecloths , starched and white , silver buttons on the barmen's jackets , gold braid by the binnacle ...
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