On the Road to KhivaH.S. King, 1874 - 359 páginas |
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... country- men , from whom I have been parted so many years , some better reputation than that of a liar and impostor . January , 1874 . DAVID KER . 1 1 CONTENTS . ' CHAPTER I. PAGE I FROM A few words , personal and prefatory . ix.
... country- men , from whom I have been parted so many years , some better reputation than that of a liar and impostor . January , 1874 . DAVID KER . 1 1 CONTENTS . ' CHAPTER I. PAGE I FROM A few words , personal and prefatory . ix.
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... better for it ; but , taken altogether , Asiatic warfare is hardly a good school for European soldiers . " " Why not ? no European war could well give them a rougher seasoning . " " Yes , it teaches them to bear hardship , there's no ...
... better for it ; but , taken altogether , Asiatic warfare is hardly a good school for European soldiers . " " Why not ? no European war could well give them a rougher seasoning . " " Yes , it teaches them to bear hardship , there's no ...
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... better off , on a morning like this , in a stuffy compart- ment , jammed into a mass of grumbling passengers- changing one's posture incessantly , and every time for the worse , till the very sense of having a body at all becomes an ...
... better off , on a morning like this , in a stuffy compart- ment , jammed into a mass of grumbling passengers- changing one's posture incessantly , and every time for the worse , till the very sense of having a body at all becomes an ...
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... better . " Before the middle of April , it is already sufficiently evident that my original programme is altogether impracticable . The columns once started , there is no hope of reaching Khiva either from Kinderli Bay or from ...
... better . " Before the middle of April , it is already sufficiently evident that my original programme is altogether impracticable . The columns once started , there is no hope of reaching Khiva either from Kinderli Bay or from ...
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... better come in and have some tea with me , instead of killing yourself for nothing . " I look up , and cannot but own that he is right . The bright southern moonlight has vanished in a huge mass of inky cloud , while the deadly ...
... better come in and have some tea with me , instead of killing yourself for nothing . " I look up , and cannot but own that he is right . The bright southern moonlight has vanished in a huge mass of inky cloud , while the deadly ...
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