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... charming spot . Amusing bright fellows they were , quick with their tongues , and perfectly polite , a strange and pleasing contrast to the youth of Malaga . Everywhere we went they accompanied us , a score of them perhaps , and we made ...
... charming spot . Amusing bright fellows they were , quick with their tongues , and perfectly polite , a strange and pleasing contrast to the youth of Malaga . Everywhere we went they accompanied us , a score of them perhaps , and we made ...
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... charm that Gibraltar possesses , its lovely gardens . For Oran is a city given up to trade , inhabited principally by ... charming excursion to the pépinière of Miserghin , some ten or twelve miles away . The drive was de- lightful , and ...
... charm that Gibraltar possesses , its lovely gardens . For Oran is a city given up to trade , inhabited principally by ... charming excursion to the pépinière of Miserghin , some ten or twelve miles away . The drive was de- lightful , and ...
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... Charming it was in the shade of the trees , for the day was hot , and we wandered here and there , watching the friars in the white robes tending the young trees and plants , or strol- ling in pairs or alone , missals in hand , amongst ...
... Charming it was in the shade of the trees , for the day was hot , and we wandered here and there , watching the friars in the white robes tending the young trees and plants , or strol- ling in pairs or alone , missals in hand , amongst ...
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... charming contrast to the wearying sight of sea . Chanak - keli is itself but a small place , straggling houses of more or less European construction , two or three deep , along the water's edge . A minaret or two give the cachet of ...
... charming contrast to the wearying sight of sea . Chanak - keli is itself but a small place , straggling houses of more or less European construction , two or three deep , along the water's edge . A minaret or two give the cachet of ...
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... charm to a city otherwise dirty and disagreeable . To - day there remains of course the beautiful Ser- aglio Point , with its cypress - trees and domes and kiosks , but elsewhere the East is fast disappearing under Western influence ...
... charm to a city otherwise dirty and disagreeable . To - day there remains of course the beautiful Ser- aglio Point , with its cypress - trees and domes and kiosks , but elsewhere the East is fast disappearing under Western influence ...
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From Batum to Baghdad: Viâ Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan Walter Harris Visualização integral - 1896 |
From Batum to Baghdad: Viâ Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan Walter Harris Visualização integral - 1896 |
From Batum to Baghdad: Viâ Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan Walter Harris Visualização integral - 1896 |
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