East by West: A Journey in the Recess, Volume 2Bentley, 1885 - 361 pages |
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Page 15
... leaves of an aromatic plant floating on it , doing their best to counteract the influence of the pickled vegetables . Here there was a pause . Cigarettes were served round , and some of the guests who had squatted on the floor through ...
... leaves of an aromatic plant floating on it , doing their best to counteract the influence of the pickled vegetables . Here there was a pause . Cigarettes were served round , and some of the guests who had squatted on the floor through ...
Page 115
... leaf , though now putting on their autumn tints . Hongkong was at the time of our visit much exercised by the imminence of war between China and France , a condition of doubt dispelled two days after our departure by a formal ...
... leaf , though now putting on their autumn tints . Hongkong was at the time of our visit much exercised by the imminence of war between China and France , a condition of doubt dispelled two days after our departure by a formal ...
Page 134
... leaves floating flat on the water with edges turned up at right angles were large enough to have floated the infant Moses . I had one measured . It was four feet across . The day after we arrived was Sunday , and in the evening we went ...
... leaves floating flat on the water with edges turned up at right angles were large enough to have floated the infant Moses . I had one measured . It was four feet across . The day after we arrived was Sunday , and in the evening we went ...
Page 148
... leaves , and can upon occasion get up quite a respectable trot . They are artistically branded , characters being stamped all over their sides . It is pretty to see a crawler- a light , palm - thatched waggon , drawn by a pictorial ...
... leaves , and can upon occasion get up quite a respectable trot . They are artistically branded , characters being stamped all over their sides . It is pretty to see a crawler- a light , palm - thatched waggon , drawn by a pictorial ...
Page 149
... leaves , they realize , with gratifying fidelity , the picture on the cover of the Juvenile Missionary Maga- zine . In towns , and near them , men dress generally in a single robe , thrown about them with THE ISLE OF SPICY BREEZES . 149.
... leaves , they realize , with gratifying fidelity , the picture on the cover of the Juvenile Missionary Maga- zine . In towns , and near them , men dress generally in a single robe , thrown about them with THE ISLE OF SPICY BREEZES . 149.
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