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... trees in many places matted with such tangles of large , brilliantly blue convolvulus as I have seen nowhere else but in the Himalayas . The lilac marine ipomea abounds everywhere , and we B passed dense masses of the large - leaved ...
... trees in many places matted with such tangles of large , brilliantly blue convolvulus as I have seen nowhere else but in the Himalayas . The lilac marine ipomea abounds everywhere , and we B passed dense masses of the large - leaved ...
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... trees - the earth is strewn with their fruit , the air fragrant . What an enchanting change after Tonga , where there are no orange- trees , and where a sense of stiffness and over - regulation seemed to pervade life ! WANTED , A DOCTOR ...
... trees - the earth is strewn with their fruit , the air fragrant . What an enchanting change after Tonga , where there are no orange- trees , and where a sense of stiffness and over - regulation seemed to pervade life ! WANTED , A DOCTOR ...
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... 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 advantage of . Our ride in the early morning was exceedingly ...
... 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 advantage of . Our ride in the early morning was exceedingly ...
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... trees , bananas , sugar- cane , & c . , grow luxuriantly , and the yams occasionally attain a weight of 50 lb .; one root being from 40 to 50 inches long - a very neat thing in potatoes . Yet the soil which produces this rank vegetation ...
... trees , bananas , sugar- cane , & c . , grow luxuriantly , and the yams occasionally attain a weight of 50 lb .; one root being from 40 to 50 inches long - a very neat thing in potatoes . Yet the soil which produces this rank vegetation ...
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... trees - nothing but small scrub . When Captain Cook discovered the isle , he only saw three or four little canoes , which were built of many small pieces of wood , sewed together with fibre , the largest piece being 6 feet long and 14 ...
... trees - nothing but small scrub . When Captain Cook discovered the isle , he only saw three or four little canoes , which were built of many small pieces of wood , sewed together with fibre , the largest piece being 6 feet long and 14 ...
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