The Countries of the World: Middle East ; Africa ; EuropeCassell, 1876 |
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... region already described applies equally well to it . * The Gasa country , or the region north of Delagoa Bay , to the Lower Zambesi , is now part of Portuguese East Africa . The Matabele Kaffir country , very mountainous , and in ...
... region already described applies equally well to it . * The Gasa country , or the region north of Delagoa Bay , to the Lower Zambesi , is now part of Portuguese East Africa . The Matabele Kaffir country , very mountainous , and in ...
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... region of King Frost . In these northern regions the vegetable food of the south is not required for the healthy sustenance of man - a happy provision , since Nature refuses to yield it . In the Arctic regions proper scarcely a ...
... region of King Frost . In these northern regions the vegetable food of the south is not required for the healthy sustenance of man - a happy provision , since Nature refuses to yield it . In the Arctic regions proper scarcely a ...
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... region , the only plants at all connected with wooded vegetation are the dwarf willow and crowberry , creeping along the surface of the mossy ground . Trees are as impossible of growth in this northern area of the continent as they are ...
... region , the only plants at all connected with wooded vegetation are the dwarf willow and crowberry , creeping along the surface of the mossy ground . Trees are as impossible of growth in this northern area of the continent as they are ...
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CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Sultans Principal Palace on the Bosphorus | 9 |
TURKEY PROPER | 15 |
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