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... shore - reef , which makes landing simply impossible . The approach to Mua is by a channel which seemed to me several miles long , and is like a river cut through the reef , which edges it on either side . Here we rowed against a ...
... shore - reef , which makes landing simply impossible . The approach to Mua is by a channel which seemed to me several miles long , and is like a river cut through the reef , which edges it on either side . Here we rowed against a ...
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... shore we could distinguish villages nestling among the trees . One small island has recently been ceded to the Germans as a coaling station , and there seems some reason for anxiety lest this small foothold should be taken further ...
... shore we could distinguish villages nestling among the trees . One small island has recently been ceded to the Germans as a coaling station , and there seems some reason for anxiety lest this small foothold should be taken further ...
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... shore , to land Mr Fox , Captain Aube hailed us , and bade us invite him to dinner with him . I thought this very courteous , as of course , on such an essentially Roman Catholic mission as this , there is just a little natural feeling ...
... shore , to land Mr Fox , Captain Aube hailed us , and bade us invite him to dinner with him . I thought this very courteous , as of course , on such an essentially Roman Catholic mission as this , there is just a little natural feeling ...
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... shore , that the fishers who haunt the reefs , armed with long four - pronged spears , have only to throw their prize into the rock - caldron the moment they have secured it . No fear of tainted fish for them ! Nor need they search far ...
... shore , that the fishers who haunt the reefs , armed with long four - pronged spears , have only to throw their prize into the rock - caldron the moment they have secured it . No fear of tainted fish for them ! Nor need they search far ...
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... shore , and surrounded by luxuriantly wooded hills . At present we are steering straight for Leone , where the bishop has work awaiting him . The place had an evil name in old days , as that where M. de Langle , who accompanied La ...
... shore , and surrounded by luxuriantly wooded hills . At present we are steering straight for Leone , where the bishop has work awaiting him . The place had an evil name in old days , as that where M. de Langle , who accompanied La ...
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