The Black GulfHutchinson, 1946 - 124 pages |
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Page 54
... pails a day , the daily ration per person being one pail whilst one of the distillers was out of order . The dead rows of empty pails around the water - distributing booths witnessed to the water crisis . Some haughty camels 54 THE ...
... pails a day , the daily ration per person being one pail whilst one of the distillers was out of order . The dead rows of empty pails around the water - distributing booths witnessed to the water crisis . Some haughty camels 54 THE ...
Page 55
... pails which some housewives had left out in the care of an old Turcoman philosopher . At that moment thunder rolled over the streets , a Turcoman began thrashing the grey sides of the offending camels , and the housewives , red as fire ...
... pails which some housewives had left out in the care of an old Turcoman philosopher . At that moment thunder rolled over the streets , a Turcoman began thrashing the grey sides of the offending camels , and the housewives , red as fire ...
Page 115
... pails a day to a quarter of a pail . The Frunze and Dzerzhinsky are extraordinary vessels , which never know themselves when and where they are sailing . I waited ten days in Krasnovodsk for the Frunze , for I was to sail in her to Kara ...
... pails a day to a quarter of a pail . The Frunze and Dzerzhinsky are extraordinary vessels , which never know themselves when and where they are sailing . I waited ten days in Krasnovodsk for the Frunze , for I was to sail in her to Kara ...
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