Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 192W. Blackwood, 1912 - Scotland |
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... close of spring . Altogether Nature has 80 smiled on Bunnoo that the stranger thinks it a paradise . " ( Sir H. Edwardes , in ' A Year on the Punjab Frontier , ' published in 1850. ) The administrative district of Bannu lies between the ...
... close of spring . Altogether Nature has 80 smiled on Bunnoo that the stranger thinks it a paradise . " ( Sir H. Edwardes , in ' A Year on the Punjab Frontier , ' published in 1850. ) The administrative district of Bannu lies between the ...
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... close to the place where the Kurram River debouches , and where therefore the head works of irrigation can be controlled . This fort still remains , it is the nucleus of the modern canton- ment of Bannu ( long called Edwardesabad ) ...
... close to the place where the Kurram River debouches , and where therefore the head works of irrigation can be controlled . This fort still remains , it is the nucleus of the modern canton- ment of Bannu ( long called Edwardesabad ) ...
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... close on two sides ( it is within three miles ) , murder could easily be committed in British territory and the culprit escape comfortably outside . The trans - border region was simply full of these outlaws , and it was impossible to ...
... close on two sides ( it is within three miles ) , murder could easily be committed in British territory and the culprit escape comfortably outside . The trans - border region was simply full of these outlaws , and it was impossible to ...
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... the public school boarding system , and a block of dormitories and class - rooms had then been completed . Close to this building was a fine swimming tank , over O which there was a big tree , on which were 1912. ] 9 Dr Pennell of Bannu .
... the public school boarding system , and a block of dormitories and class - rooms had then been completed . Close to this building was a fine swimming tank , over O which there was a big tree , on which were 1912. ] 9 Dr Pennell of Bannu .
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... close to the VOL . CXCII . - NO . MCLXI . water's edge , in a tiny cove facing south . It ran back some fifteen feet into the heart of a lofty rock , and was floored with white coral sand , warm and dry beneath the rays of the noonday ...
... close to the VOL . CXCII . - NO . MCLXI . water's edge , in a tiny cove facing south . It ran back some fifteen feet into the heart of a lofty rock , and was floored with white coral sand , warm and dry beneath the rays of the noonday ...
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