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 528
... strange Chinese junks with eyes painted on their bows , square sails of palm - leaf looking like Venetian blinds . It is the centre of vast trade , the thoroughfare of half China's imports , and the air is laden with camphor and other ...
... strange Chinese junks with eyes painted on their bows , square sails of palm - leaf looking like Venetian blinds . It is the centre of vast trade , the thoroughfare of half China's imports , and the air is laden with camphor and other ...
Page 619
... strange seas they used to travel in strange craft to Al - Azhar , through swamps and untrodden paths of the wilderness defying hunger and heat and disease and marauding bands in their insatiable thirst for religious know- ledge . But ...
... strange seas they used to travel in strange craft to Al - Azhar , through swamps and untrodden paths of the wilderness defying hunger and heat and disease and marauding bands in their insatiable thirst for religious know- ledge . But ...
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... strange Oriental race arrived in what is now known as Hungary or Magyarorság ( land of the Magyars ) . To this day their nearest kinsmen in the world are the Finns and the Turks - at least those are the only people whose language ...
... strange Oriental race arrived in what is now known as Hungary or Magyarorság ( land of the Magyars ) . To this day their nearest kinsmen in the world are the Finns and the Turks - at least those are the only people whose language ...
Contents
INDIA Concluded | 501 |
MALAYA BORNEO AND HONG KONG | 527 |
AUSTRALIA | 531 |
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