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Page 149
When travelling along a road that they have been over only once , and that some
years before , where there are numerous branch roads and turnings , they will
never make a mistake , even in the dark ; and I have often , at night , when I could
...
When travelling along a road that they have been over only once , and that some
years before , where there are numerous branch roads and turnings , they will
never make a mistake , even in the dark ; and I have often , at night , when I could
...
Page 187
Benighted on the Road 187 given them some hopes of saving their crops . We
passed a village called Apanás and then struck across the plains , and on the
other side reached low flat - topped ranges covered with small trees and
brushwood ...
Benighted on the Road 187 given them some hopes of saving their crops . We
passed a village called Apanás and then struck across the plains , and on the
other side reached low flat - topped ranges covered with small trees and
brushwood ...
Page 248
Our road again lay over grassy plains and low , lightly - timbered hills , with very
few houses - - probably not more than one in a league . The country was now
greener ; they had had showers of rain , and fine grass had sprung up . Passing
as ...
Our road again lay over grassy plains and low , lightly - timbered hills , with very
few houses - - probably not more than one in a league . The country was now
greener ; they had had showers of rain , and fine grass had sprung up . Passing
as ...
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