The Countries of the World: Being a Popular Description of the Various Continents, Islands, Rivers, Seas, and Peoples of the Globe, Volumes 3-4Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1892 |
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Page 55
... passes ; and as the railroad gentlemen are the most liberal of people in the way of passes to all distinguished personages , and even - as I have reason to know- to some who do not at all come under that category , it is a passenger's ...
... passes ; and as the railroad gentlemen are the most liberal of people in the way of passes to all distinguished personages , and even - as I have reason to know- to some who do not at all come under that category , it is a passenger's ...
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... passes are open , but no wheeled carriages can be used in them - only mules . Indeed , in some of the more rugged ones , the traveller has still to be borne , in a kind of chair , on the backs of Indians , more sure - footed than even ...
... passes are open , but no wheeled carriages can be used in them - only mules . Indeed , in some of the more rugged ones , the traveller has still to be borne , in a kind of chair , on the backs of Indians , more sure - footed than even ...
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... pass of El Planchon to the south , opposite to Talca . With this object he went from San Carlos to Mendoza , and held a grand palaver with the Pehuenche Indians for leave to march through their territory to El Planchon . The news ...
... pass of El Planchon to the south , opposite to Talca . With this object he went from San Carlos to Mendoza , and held a grand palaver with the Pehuenche Indians for leave to march through their territory to El Planchon . The news ...
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