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 568
... perhaps less primitive than in India . Life might be a perpetual picnic with a conspicuous con- tempt for chairs . The people live in log cabins like mockeries of Swiss châlets or else in huts like hayricks or in cattle sheds where it ...
... perhaps less primitive than in India . Life might be a perpetual picnic with a conspicuous con- tempt for chairs . The people live in log cabins like mockeries of Swiss châlets or else in huts like hayricks or in cattle sheds where it ...
Page 700
... perhaps three thousand , as shown by the rings of growth in the trunks . Some of these great trees are so large that several houses of considerable dimensions could be built from the timber of one of them . The Yosemite California's ...
... perhaps three thousand , as shown by the rings of growth in the trunks . Some of these great trees are so large that several houses of considerable dimensions could be built from the timber of one of them . The Yosemite California's ...
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... perhaps also in temperament , the Dane resembles the Swede more than the Norseman . Away in the far north of Norway and Sweden there is a relatively small population of some seven thousand Lapps , all more or less nomadic , whose chief ...
... perhaps also in temperament , the Dane resembles the Swede more than the Norseman . Away in the far north of Norway and Sweden there is a relatively small population of some seven thousand Lapps , all more or less nomadic , whose chief ...
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INDIA Concluded | 501 |
MALAYA BORNEO AND HONG KONG | 527 |
AUSTRALIA | 531 |
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