Beyond the Mexique BayThe author describes his experiences traveling through the Caribbean to Guatemala and southern Mexico in 1933. |
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Page 21
... less than four years old and , even in the palmiest days at home , were French only after the school of Stratford - atte - Bowe . The colonial monde -to judge at least by such glimpses as one had in the streets - is scarcely more modish ...
... less than four years old and , even in the palmiest days at home , were French only after the school of Stratford - atte - Bowe . The colonial monde -to judge at least by such glimpses as one had in the streets - is scarcely more modish ...
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... less brutal ; but they are also , alas , a good deal less effective . The sanitary arrangements at the new hotel were all that could be desired ; but the proprietor , who was a Spanish - American , was evidently unacquainted , not only ...
... less brutal ; but they are also , alas , a good deal less effective . The sanitary arrangements at the new hotel were all that could be desired ; but the proprietor , who was a Spanish - American , was evidently unacquainted , not only ...
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... less money to buy food and so less resistance to disease . Tubercle takes its opportunity . The inadequacy of man's imagination and his im- mense capacity for ignorance are notorious . We act habitually without knowing what the more ...
... less money to buy food and so less resistance to disease . Tubercle takes its opportunity . The inadequacy of man's imagination and his im- mense capacity for ignorance are notorious . We act habitually without knowing what the more ...
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