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Four days later we boarded . Our cabin was far aft and deep below deck . The sleeping arrangements consisted of steel - framed berths , four tiers high . I estimated our cabin held approximately twenty- four of those sleeping towers ...
Four days later we boarded . Our cabin was far aft and deep below deck . The sleeping arrangements consisted of steel - framed berths , four tiers high . I estimated our cabin held approximately twenty- four of those sleeping towers ...
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Behind them stepped the drummers , beating out those four haunting funeral notes . Next came incense bearers , swinging widely their smoking canisters , ' purifying ' the people ; then four smartly dressed trumpeters , sounding in ...
Behind them stepped the drummers , beating out those four haunting funeral notes . Next came incense bearers , swinging widely their smoking canisters , ' purifying ' the people ; then four smartly dressed trumpeters , sounding in ...
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But in this new country , hairy though it be , there is much less wire , for a score of horses do much less damage than four score . It looks as though hunting will be slower , with less galloping but far more and more varied jumping .
But in this new country , hairy though it be , there is much less wire , for a score of horses do much less damage than four score . It looks as though hunting will be slower , with less galloping but far more and more varied jumping .
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