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overhanging as the daylight faded, and the approaching night blended the sharp outlines and increased the magnitude of every object around us. Near by...

know what unexpected rocks or holes there would be found round the next sharp turn. From Padang the road led to the northwest, over the low lands between...

the southern side, that I could look directly up into the crater from the controleur’s residence in the valley. The sharp limestone needles, on the east...

to the snout, which is tufted with hair, and the claws, which are very sharp. The celebrated Japanese author, Bakin, in his master- piece of Hakkenden...

spoiling for for- eign blood. Japanese swords are quickly drawn, and are sharp. No vrov. » 370 THE MIKADO'S EMPIRE. and walls of the castle. Up and down...

present every day, along with your breath, that they may hear with the sharp-earedness of the forth-galloping colt." The offerings, most commonly laid...

the chasm in which the torrent flows. Descending from these branches in a sharp curve, they rise again steeply at the farther end of the bridge. From these...

rosy-cheeked children played, or boys fished, or pretty girls came down to look at the lotus - flowers. The echo of their merry laugh often reached me. In...

excursion in a boat some six miles toward the northern end of the bay to look at some layers of coal. Leaving the boat we went a short distance up the...

eyes and mouth on be- holding the white foreigner. Some of the old ladies look at me piti- fully, so sorry that I am so bleached and pale, instead of the...

sound, such as would be caused by beating a hollow log, and not[180] the sharp, quick rap of a drum, which, however monotonous, still has something stirring...

sea-urchins, with needle-like spines nearly a foot long, and so extremely sharp and brittle, that it was very difficult to get the animals out of the little...

with large crimson flowers. In the evening, when the moon rose over the sharp peaks a short distance to the east, and spread a broad band of silver light...

are disk-shaped, for they are made from thin fragments of slate that had sharp corners when they broke away from their parent mountain. To prevent a dull...

presented to the magistrate. These are inscribed on slips of bamboo with a sharp instrument, and I have several of them in my possession. They must banish...

that is gold. In the coast region, the houses of the natives have high, sharp[500] roofs, and are covered with atap, but here they are larger and lower;...

concrete pavements are able to resist for years the rutting action of the sharp-edged wheels of the native carts. These wheels are ingeniously constructed...

motives of personal indulgence or state, but on account of the ranjaus or sharp-pointed stakes so commonly planted in the passes (see the preceding journal...

that they may fall clear of the vine, and the business is performed with a sharp prang or bill that generally separates at one stroke the light pithy substance...

singular sight of carrying its young one on its back. It has a weak cry, in a sharp tone, very unlike the lowing of oxen. The most part of the milk and butter...