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... fact that there were relatively few half - caste people in the interior , despite the wide- spread miscegenation . Many writers , either ignorant of the facts or prompted by sentimentality , have attempted the scarcely possible task of ...
... fact that there were relatively few half - caste people in the interior , despite the wide- spread miscegenation . Many writers , either ignorant of the facts or prompted by sentimentality , have attempted the scarcely possible task of ...
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... fact that their cockney owner has never been accustomed to rougher walking than London pavements , or macadamized roads ... 5 The very fact that the search for gold drew the immigrants ' up the country ' for a long or short period was ...
... fact that their cockney owner has never been accustomed to rougher walking than London pavements , or macadamized roads ... 5 The very fact that the search for gold drew the immigrants ' up the country ' for a long or short period was ...
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... fact it was not usually the discontented eastern city workman but the small farmer's younger sons and such people who went west to improve themselves , and that to have a good chance of success they needed a modest accumulation of ...
... fact it was not usually the discontented eastern city workman but the small farmer's younger sons and such people who went west to improve themselves , and that to have a good chance of success they needed a modest accumulation of ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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