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... bush , returning for their horses , and then hacking through the bush again . Some- times they covered the same ground three times ; some days they only made two miles . At one camp they had to carry all the water up a precipitous 600 ...
... bush , returning for their horses , and then hacking through the bush again . Some- times they covered the same ground three times ; some days they only made two miles . At one camp they had to carry all the water up a precipitous 600 ...
Page 124
... bush , they ran straight into a native am- bush . Resenting this trespass on the tribal hunting - grounds , the natives showered the whites with spears . Gilbert , the expedition naturalist , was transfixed and died immediately . Two ...
... bush , they ran straight into a native am- bush . Resenting this trespass on the tribal hunting - grounds , the natives showered the whites with spears . Gilbert , the expedition naturalist , was transfixed and died immediately . Two ...
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... bush . They sat there for hours on the alert , not daring to light a fire . In the first light of dawn the aboriginal fetched the two horses , saddled them and they were off , just as the natives ransacked their abandoned camp . During ...
... bush . They sat there for hours on the alert , not daring to light a fire . In the first light of dawn the aboriginal fetched the two horses , saddled them and they were off , just as the natives ransacked their abandoned camp . During ...
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The Coast of Doom I I | 11 |
The First British Landing | 21 |
Columbus of the South | 26 |
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