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... bush , were discovered . The people , therefore , marched on to the lower levels , leaving unoccu- pied behind them vast tracts of country , which , after remain- ing for years the abode of countless thousands of game , are now being ...
... bush , were discovered . The people , therefore , marched on to the lower levels , leaving unoccu- pied behind them vast tracts of country , which , after remain- ing for years the abode of countless thousands of game , are now being ...
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... bush country . Besides this , Origstadt and the wheat districts are unhealthy for horses ; and all other things being equal , a farmer will prefer to live where he can ride to where he must walk . Wheat , when grown , had to be brought ...
... bush country . Besides this , Origstadt and the wheat districts are unhealthy for horses ; and all other things being equal , a farmer will prefer to live where he can ride to where he must walk . Wheat , when grown , had to be brought ...
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... bush or rock might swarm with enemies . A man might reasonably expect wounds or death at any moment . The Englishman heard the Boer praying to himself , or rather to God , as he rode along— praying that God would deliver him from the ...
... bush or rock might swarm with enemies . A man might reasonably expect wounds or death at any moment . The Englishman heard the Boer praying to himself , or rather to God , as he rode along— praying that God would deliver him from the ...
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... bush , making his startled victim fully believe his time had come . When the lion had played this trick for a third and a fourth time , in much the same way as a cat might do with a cockroach , the path entered great reeds and tall ...
... bush , making his startled victim fully believe his time had come . When the lion had played this trick for a third and a fourth time , in much the same way as a cat might do with a cockroach , the path entered great reeds and tall ...
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... bush . This plain was hemmed in by mountains -- on the right by the spurs of the Lulu , and on the left by the towering height of Mount Morone , along the base of which the Steelport ran . The plain narrowed backwards between the ranges ...
... bush . This plain was hemmed in by mountains -- on the right by the spurs of the Lulu , and on the left by the towering height of Mount Morone , along the base of which the Steelport ran . The plain narrowed backwards between the ranges ...
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