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... took a long walk through various parts of it , and I was particularly struck with one peculiar tree , not large , but growing in abundant groups and waving with white silver brilliancy in the sun . It is called the Protea Argentina ; it ...
... took a long walk through various parts of it , and I was particularly struck with one peculiar tree , not large , but growing in abundant groups and waving with white silver brilliancy in the sun . It is called the Protea Argentina ; it ...
Pagina 23
... took second and forcible possession , in 1806 , of the Dutch possessions at the Cape , for the mere selfish purpose ( without using the phrase censoriously ) of securing a strong naval position . I am now writing in 1885. Yet , with all ...
... took second and forcible possession , in 1806 , of the Dutch possessions at the Cape , for the mere selfish purpose ( without using the phrase censoriously ) of securing a strong naval position . I am now writing in 1885. Yet , with all ...
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... took . The other was not mentioned to me , nor should I have cared to undertake it on a strange horse ( with a single curb , of course ) , if the heights and ledges are at all like those which I passed over afterwards in the north of ...
... took . The other was not mentioned to me , nor should I have cared to undertake it on a strange horse ( with a single curb , of course ) , if the heights and ledges are at all like those which I passed over afterwards in the north of ...
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... took a wild gallop to the lighthouse . Mr. and Mrs. McKellar , her brother , and myself and guide made up the party . The last quarter of the ride was , however , a severe pull . At length we dismounted at the station , and after ...
... took a wild gallop to the lighthouse . Mr. and Mrs. McKellar , her brother , and myself and guide made up the party . The last quarter of the ride was , however , a severe pull . At length we dismounted at the station , and after ...
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... took the train to the Lyndoch station , about twenty - five miles out of Capetown , my first halting place being at Welmoed Farm , cultivated for its owner by Dr. Theophilus Hahn , to whom Mr. Wright had given me a letter . I paid two ...
... took the train to the Lyndoch station , about twenty - five miles out of Capetown , my first halting place being at Welmoed Farm , cultivated for its owner by Dr. Theophilus Hahn , to whom Mr. Wright had given me a letter . I paid two ...
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