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... remarkable strength of wing . The Cape pigeon will fly at the rate of twenty miles an hour against a heavy gale of wind . The albatross also is an extraordinarily swift bird , and will circle round the ship , when driving before a gale ...
... remarkable strength of wing . The Cape pigeon will fly at the rate of twenty miles an hour against a heavy gale of wind . The albatross also is an extraordinarily swift bird , and will circle round the ship , when driving before a gale ...
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... to climb the hill in a straight line towards a remarkable rock called the Monument , hoping every moment to fall in with the promised path : no path was how- ever to be seen , and when at length we CHAPTER IV THE BUSH.
... to climb the hill in a straight line towards a remarkable rock called the Monument , hoping every moment to fall in with the promised path : no path was how- ever to be seen , and when at length we CHAPTER IV THE BUSH.
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... remarkable . Worn out with unaccustomed exertion and faint for want of food , our nerves had become painfully sensitive to all the novel incidents of our position ; whilst the roaring and crackling of the great fire we had so ...
... remarkable . Worn out with unaccustomed exertion and faint for want of food , our nerves had become painfully sensitive to all the novel incidents of our position ; whilst the roaring and crackling of the great fire we had so ...
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... remarkable fea- ture of the soil is the abruptness of the ravines with which the country abounds . Often , when riding along the level plain or down a gentle slope , the traveller will suddenly find himself on the brink of a ravine ...
... remarkable fea- ture of the soil is the abruptness of the ravines with which the country abounds . Often , when riding along the level plain or down a gentle slope , the traveller will suddenly find himself on the brink of a ravine ...
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... remarkable peak standing high above its fellows , and apparently flattened at the summit . We now began to descend ; but , unfortunately , having misunderstood our in- F structions , we took a wrong direction , which ultimately ...
... remarkable peak standing high above its fellows , and apparently flattened at the summit . We now began to descend ; but , unfortunately , having misunderstood our in- F structions , we took a wrong direction , which ultimately ...
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