The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man, Volume 2Harry Johnston, Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest William H. Wise & Company, 1937 |
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Page 569
... half Ori- ental , half Australian . The Papuans The natives belong mainly to three classes . There are the primitive pygmy element , the Papuan woolly - haired group , and a certain number of Melanesians and Polynesians who have im ...
... half Ori- ental , half Australian . The Papuans The natives belong mainly to three classes . There are the primitive pygmy element , the Papuan woolly - haired group , and a certain number of Melanesians and Polynesians who have im ...
Page 667
... half miles long , and more than half a mile wide , it combines the beauties of natural loveliness and of art . Of its eight hundred and forty - three acres , one hundred and eighty - five are covered by lakes and reservoirs , and four ...
... half miles long , and more than half a mile wide , it combines the beauties of natural loveliness and of art . Of its eight hundred and forty - three acres , one hundred and eighty - five are covered by lakes and reservoirs , and four ...
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... half the year and all communication by sea cut off from November till May , while the summers are short and extremely hot . The island is nearly always fog - bound . Formcsa Formosa , as the Portuguese navigators called it in the six ...
... half the year and all communication by sea cut off from November till May , while the summers are short and extremely hot . The island is nearly always fog - bound . Formcsa Formosa , as the Portuguese navigators called it in the six ...
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INDIA Concluded | 501 |
MALAYA BORNEO AND HONG KONG | 527 |
AUSTRALIA | 531 |
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