Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 297William Blackwood, 1965 |
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Page 42
... past the site but there was not a trace of our occupation . - The river bank , however , had hardly changed in the past twenty years . There was the usual gaggle of canoes , sampans , rafts and little motor - boats ( pom - poms ) with ...
... past the site but there was not a trace of our occupation . - The river bank , however , had hardly changed in the past twenty years . There was the usual gaggle of canoes , sampans , rafts and little motor - boats ( pom - poms ) with ...
Page 182
... past four in the morning ( twenty minutes past three mainland time ) , a soft knock comes on my cabin door and a low call without . It is the summons for leaving . I peep out to see the boat boy of the Capre stealing away , his bare ...
... past four in the morning ( twenty minutes past three mainland time ) , a soft knock comes on my cabin door and a low call without . It is the summons for leaving . I peep out to see the boat boy of the Capre stealing away , his bare ...
Page 562
... past . He would disdain , the reader feels , to pad out his pages with the casual encounters and often irrelevant gossip of many present - day travel books . Indeed he often finds people obtrusive ; the gang of tourists in the Palace of ...
... past . He would disdain , the reader feels , to pad out his pages with the casual encounters and often irrelevant gossip of many present - day travel books . Indeed he often finds people obtrusive ; the gang of tourists in the Palace of ...
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