From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African WarW. Blackwood and sons, 1900 - 180 páginas |
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... morning I awoke , and behold the Nor- man was lying alongside a wharf at Capetown . I had expected it , and yet it was a shock . In this breathless age ten days out of sight of land is enough to make you a merman : I looked with pleased ...
... morning I awoke , and behold the Nor- man was lying alongside a wharf at Capetown . I had expected it , and yet it was a shock . In this breathless age ten days out of sight of land is enough to make you a merman : I looked with pleased ...
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... . The broad streets fronted with new - looking , ornate buildings of irregular heights and fronts were Western America ; the battle of warming sun with the stabbing morning cold was Northern India . 2 FROM CAPETOWN TO LADYSMITH .
... . The broad streets fronted with new - looking , ornate buildings of irregular heights and fronts were Western America ; the battle of warming sun with the stabbing morning cold was Northern India . 2 FROM CAPETOWN TO LADYSMITH .
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... morning cold was Northern India . The handsome , blood - like electric cars , with their impatient gongs and racing trolleys , were pure America ( the motor - men were actually were actually imported from that hustling clime to run them ) ...
... morning cold was Northern India . The handsome , blood - like electric cars , with their impatient gongs and racing trolleys , were pure America ( the motor - men were actually were actually imported from that hustling clime to run them ) ...
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... morning we had made less than a hundred and eighty miles . Now we were climbing the vast desert of the Karroo , the dusty stairway that leads on to the highlands of South Africa . Once you have seen one desert , all the others are like ...
... morning we had made less than a hundred and eighty miles . Now we were climbing the vast desert of the Karroo , the dusty stairway that leads on to the highlands of South Africa . Once you have seen one desert , all the others are like ...
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... morning - it is only fifty miles , with two lines of railway- and what will happen to that little patch of white tents by the station ? The loss of any one means the loss of land connection between Western and Eastern Provinces , a line ...
... morning - it is only fifty miles , with two lines of railway- and what will happen to that little patch of white tents by the station ? The loss of any one means the loss of land connection between Western and Eastern Provinces , a line ...
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From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War George Warrington Steevens Visualização integral - 1900 |
From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War George Warrington Steevens Visualização integral - 1900 |
From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War George Warrington Steevens Visualização integral - 1900 |
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