East by West: A Journey in the Recess, Volume 2Bentley, 1885 - 361 pages |
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Page 26
... miles and miles were full of ships . There was a town on either side of the river that seemed to have no end . They were in the centre of millions of people , whose ultimate fate they held in their hands , but who , for the present ...
... miles and miles were full of ships . There was a town on either side of the river that seemed to have no end . They were in the centre of millions of people , whose ultimate fate they held in their hands , but who , for the present ...
Page 47
... miles an hour . The night con- tinued light , whereby possibly catastrophe was averted . But what with the waves constantly washing over the steamer , and the spindrift blinding the look - out man , it was hard to see where we were ...
... miles an hour . The night con- tinued light , whereby possibly catastrophe was averted . But what with the waves constantly washing over the steamer , and the spindrift blinding the look - out man , it was hard to see where we were ...
Page 52
... mile . We drew up at another tea - house , and there , arrayed in a miscellaneous costume of borrowed garments , with his teeth visibly and audibly shaking in his head , was the lost guide . His story was brief but thrilling . The ...
... mile . We drew up at another tea - house , and there , arrayed in a miscellaneous costume of borrowed garments , with his teeth visibly and audibly shaking in his head , was the lost guide . His story was brief but thrilling . The ...
Page 53
... miles that separated them from the shore . When he reached the quay , Ito had to take a drive in a jinrikisha to the tea - house where we found him , and where he arrived , more dead than alive , at half - past two in the morning ...
... miles that separated them from the shore . When he reached the quay , Ito had to take a drive in a jinrikisha to the tea - house where we found him , and where he arrived , more dead than alive , at half - past two in the morning ...
Page 55
... miles with one bare foot . I insisted upon buying him a pair of sandals , which cost a penny . The next day a man in one of the other jinrikishas lost his shoe , and ran more than twenty miles barefooted without any sense of ...
... miles with one bare foot . I insisted upon buying him a pair of sandals , which cost a penny . The next day a man in one of the other jinrikishas lost his shoe , and ran more than twenty miles barefooted without any sense of ...
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