Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 255W. Blackwood, 1944 - England |
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Page 157
... hills that seem to emanate an incanny atmosphere of secret hostility to man and all his works . From the stony Jamrud plain those hills rise abruptly , forming a V - shaped entrance to the Pass . Beyond it they fall apart , only to ...
... hills that seem to emanate an incanny atmosphere of secret hostility to man and all his works . From the stony Jamrud plain those hills rise abruptly , forming a V - shaped entrance to the Pass . Beyond it they fall apart , only to ...
Page 208
... hill by the old cantonment , in which the current ones were kept , together with a medley of mules and goats and pigs . But throughout our journey , except in the remotest hills , one wife or another seemed to have an uncanny knack of ...
... hill by the old cantonment , in which the current ones were kept , together with a medley of mules and goats and pigs . But throughout our journey , except in the remotest hills , one wife or another seemed to have an uncanny knack of ...
Page 394
... Hills - green with that dusky green of grass exposed to an atmosphere always heavy with particles of smoke , but with all the quietude of hills in the remotest highlands . Sheep , also dusky , dotted the grassy slopes , and farmhouses ...
... Hills - green with that dusky green of grass exposed to an atmosphere always heavy with particles of smoke , but with all the quietude of hills in the remotest highlands . Sheep , also dusky , dotted the grassy slopes , and farmhouses ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 69 |
NATUK EXPERIENCES IN THE LIFE OF DR H G ESMONDE | 105 |
A HUNDRED YEARS OF THE KHYBER PASS BY MAUD DIVER | 157 |
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