QuedahOxford University Press, 1857 - 360 Seiten |
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... seemed to be exhausted in inventing bodies , intended for propulsion through the water , which should differ as much as possible from each other . The Singapore sampan decidedly carried off the palm for beauty and fleetness ...
... seemed to be exhausted in inventing bodies , intended for propulsion through the water , which should differ as much as possible from each other . The Singapore sampan decidedly carried off the palm for beauty and fleetness ...
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... seemed to be frizzling in his leathern shako and hideous regimentals , and the sensation I felt on regarding his scarlet coat was that he might at any moment burst into flames . He was a military martyr lashed to a British musket ...
... seemed to be frizzling in his leathern shako and hideous regimentals , and the sensation I felt on regarding his scarlet coat was that he might at any moment burst into flames . He was a military martyr lashed to a British musket ...
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... seemed very well able to show . Quedah had always , in olden time , been a Malay state , though possibly tributary alternately to either the Emperor of Siam or the Emperor of Malacca , as QUEDAH POLITICS . 23 the power of either happened ...
... seemed very well able to show . Quedah had always , in olden time , been a Malay state , though possibly tributary alternately to either the Emperor of Siam or the Emperor of Malacca , as QUEDAH POLITICS . 23 the power of either happened ...
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... seemed to arouse all Jadee's recollections of by - gone forays and skirmishes ; for no sooner had Jamboo told him that I only hoped Tonkoo Mahomet Said might take it into his head to try the experiment upon the " Emerald , " or " Numero ...
... seemed to arouse all Jadee's recollections of by - gone forays and skirmishes ; for no sooner had Jamboo told him that I only hoped Tonkoo Mahomet Said might take it into his head to try the experiment upon the " Emerald , " or " Numero ...
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... seemed but a stride to the rocks , and at once I plunged into the water , taking down many a bee which adhered tenaciously to my body and face . Keeping down as long as possible , I rose in the hope of being clear from the little brutes ...
... seemed but a stride to the rocks , and at once I plunged into the water , taking down many a bee which adhered tenaciously to my body and face . Keeping down as long as possible , I rose in the hope of being clear from the little brutes ...
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