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Page 83
... miles away across two passes of over ten thousand feet and heaven knows how many barrancas . But sixty miles among the mountains is , for these wandering merchants , a slight and easy journey . They will walk two hundred miles with a ...
... miles away across two passes of over ten thousand feet and heaven knows how many barrancas . But sixty miles among the mountains is , for these wandering merchants , a slight and easy journey . They will walk two hundred miles with a ...
Page 108
... miles more , and the woods thinned out into a kind of barren park land , and finally the occasional trees gave place to occasional cactuses ; the park had turned into a desert of stones and dust and desperate vegetable ferocity . The ...
... miles more , and the woods thinned out into a kind of barren park land , and finally the occasional trees gave place to occasional cactuses ; the park had turned into a desert of stones and dust and desperate vegetable ferocity . The ...
Page 137
... miles away was another Fenton kingdom , under another governor . We reached Progreso at last and found a comfortable house on a terrace at the head of a valley that sloped away towards the coast . We were about three thousand feet above ...
... miles away was another Fenton kingdom , under another governor . We reached Progreso at last and found a comfortable house on a terrace at the head of a valley that sloped away towards the coast . We were about three thousand feet above ...
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