Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 238William Blackwood, 1935 - England |
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Page 249
... bank . The river was now a hundred feet wide and six feet deep , but its clear colour had gone . It was olive and opaque . The steep banks were of clay . Then came a succession of very wide buttercup - filled meadows , but no sign of ...
... bank . The river was now a hundred feet wide and six feet deep , but its clear colour had gone . It was olive and opaque . The steep banks were of clay . Then came a succession of very wide buttercup - filled meadows , but no sign of ...
Page 421
... bank close to the wreck . They thought , too , that on the wreck they might find some place where rain- water had collected ; for the water of the creek was salt , and they were beginning to feel thirsty . Bridgeman with- out his belt ...
... bank close to the wreck . They thought , too , that on the wreck they might find some place where rain- water had collected ; for the water of the creek was salt , and they were beginning to feel thirsty . Bridgeman with- out his belt ...
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... banks were thick with the ugly grey shapes of crocodiles . " We'll have to build reed rafts , P. S. , " grunted Bringey ; " there's not a damned tree in the country . If the Nuers are holding the far bank it is going to be nasty . " Now ...
... banks were thick with the ugly grey shapes of crocodiles . " We'll have to build reed rafts , P. S. , " grunted Bringey ; " there's not a damned tree in the country . If the Nuers are holding the far bank it is going to be nasty . " Now ...
Contents
ADVENTURE IN THE FIFTIES BY ELEANOR FARJEON | 372 |
PROCESSIONAL BY O WATKINS | 483 |
A POACHING INCIDENT IN TYROL BY O WATKINS | 615 |
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