Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 223William Blackwood, 1928 |
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... jungle , mountains , rivers , and unreliable savages , was experiencing an unusual period of quiet . The initial occupation ; a subsequent in- vasion by a horde of noisy and stumbling regulars from India ; a first - class political ...
... jungle , mountains , rivers , and unreliable savages , was experiencing an unusual period of quiet . The initial occupation ; a subsequent in- vasion by a horde of noisy and stumbling regulars from India ; a first - class political ...
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... jungle population which lacked everything but leadership and a common pur- pose to make it aggressively hostile . At any moment it might have roared out into an avalanche of yelling fiends , who would have barged , to their ruin , in ...
... jungle population which lacked everything but leadership and a common pur- pose to make it aggressively hostile . At any moment it might have roared out into an avalanche of yelling fiends , who would have barged , to their ruin , in ...
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... jungle fowls want improving , and I'm to hand these out to the villages to improve the stock , and I'm to report on the result . Our puir wee jungli hens ! ... And look here , too , " and he led the way on to an- other slightly smaller ...
... jungle fowls want improving , and I'm to hand these out to the villages to improve the stock , and I'm to report on the result . Our puir wee jungli hens ! ... And look here , too , " and he led the way on to an- other slightly smaller ...
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... jungle travel ; that his Madrassi bearer was worse than useless ; that he had marched too far and too fast ; had lain awake all the previous night with a bad dose of fever and no quinine ; and Crooke and Macmillan stared at him . I ...
... jungle travel ; that his Madrassi bearer was worse than useless ; that he had marched too far and too fast ; had lain awake all the previous night with a bad dose of fever and no quinine ; and Crooke and Macmillan stared at him . I ...
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... jungle setting , and moral , due to the reluctance of other tribes to have dealings with a people as explosive and un- trustworthy as a badly made firework - has so far prevented their indisciplined and non- To such a people came the ...
... jungle setting , and moral , due to the reluctance of other tribes to have dealings with a people as explosive and un- trustworthy as a badly made firework - has so far prevented their indisciplined and non- To such a people came the ...
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