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Page 5
... reached a climax when one of the Moors , who spoke Spanish , asked after the health of General Margallo , the general who had been killed before Melilla , and then the captain was obliged to order them below , though the ill ...
... reached a climax when one of the Moors , who spoke Spanish , asked after the health of General Margallo , the general who had been killed before Melilla , and then the captain was obliged to order them below , though the ill ...
Page 11
... , and but little more than the looming outline of rock and mountain was visible . Slowing down at night , we proceeded at reduced speed until the Dardanelles were reached in the early morning of the last day of March , before.
... , and but little more than the looming outline of rock and mountain was visible . Slowing down at night , we proceeded at reduced speed until the Dardanelles were reached in the early morning of the last day of March , before.
Page 33
... reached when for nearly ten minutes ' duration the train rattles one through the tunnel of the watershed between the rivers flowing to the Caspian and the Black Sea . This tunnel took four years to excavate ( 1886-1890 ) , and some 2000 ...
... reached when for nearly ten minutes ' duration the train rattles one through the tunnel of the watershed between the rivers flowing to the Caspian and the Black Sea . This tunnel took four years to excavate ( 1886-1890 ) , and some 2000 ...
Page 60
... waters of the roaring Akstafa , and here again at the very foot of the precipices , until Delijan is reached after a steep climb up the hill- DELIJAN . 61 side . The road is everywhere in 60 A DRIVE ACROSS TRANSCAUCASIA .
... waters of the roaring Akstafa , and here again at the very foot of the precipices , until Delijan is reached after a steep climb up the hill- DELIJAN . 61 side . The road is everywhere in 60 A DRIVE ACROSS TRANSCAUCASIA .
Page 65
... rites the less said the better - appear , forlorn little villages by the roadside , ill kept and foul , the houses half in ruins , and the population of a low type . E Reaching the edge of this wearying plateau , the wide.
... rites the less said the better - appear , forlorn little villages by the roadside , ill kept and foul , the houses half in ruins , and the population of a low type . E Reaching the edge of this wearying plateau , the wide.
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