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...The book tells the story of Anna and Lucia, two girls of Italian origin who after a happy childhood in Borneo, for an outburst decide to leave to settle in Italy. Arrived in Sicily encounter many difficulties in entering into a very closed society. They manage to find a job and even with a certain help a life partner. Have the...

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...s of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. It was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the white Raja of Sarawak in Borneo, and by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who claimed the title Prince of Ghor. The story was first published in The Phantom Rickshaw and other Tales (Volume Five of the Indian Railway Library, publishe...

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...ever heard: a trip to the Congo to spend some time with the gorillas, an elephant trip to Borneo and see the tigers in the wild. At every suggestion,...

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... 1933 en Bombay kaj Calcutta. I. ŜIRJAEV . 348 Hindujo, Nederlanda: Javo, Borneo, Sumatra ktp. La unuaj E-istoj estis L. Keidel en Kandaig-Djati en 1... ...R 425 95 1479 Azio: Lokoj Grupoj E-istoj 879 Brita Hindujo 12 - 17 Br.N.Borneo 1 - 1 Cejlono 1 - 1 Cipro 1 - 1 Ĉinujo 29 880 1 476 Filipina ins. 2... .... Del. de UEA en Totok (Celebes), Tokyo, Osaka, kaj nun en Sandakan, Norda Borneo. Artikoloj kaj rakontoj pri orientaj landoj aperis en HDE. 1002 Veg...

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...ns -- Marco Polo's return voyage -- Visit to the East Indies -- The Unicorn of Borneo -- Killing and eating the sick -- A city offered for a ruby -- A... ...hereto. So also did Sumatra and Java unite to form one very long island, while Borneo was connected with the mainland. These changes in the face of th... ...he islands of the East Indies. The most of his descriptions, however, concern Borneo and Java, which he calls the Greater and the Less Java. In the f... ...e population being too beastly to produce more valuable things. THE UNICORN OF BORNEO AND THE CANNIBALS OF JAVA. On Borneo Polo also found many savage... ...ng them for pigmies or little men. In another of the seven kingdoms into which Borneo was divided, Marco learned of a very singular, and no less abomi... ...were larger than ships, of others where there were talking birds. They visited Borneo, where they were well received, great honor being shown them by ...

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...: 21,579 km; Sumatra 5,471 km, Java and Madura 820 km, Kalimantan portion of Borneo 10,460 km, Celebes 241 km, and Irian Jaya 4,587 km Pipelines: crud... ... occupies southern half of Malay Peninsula and northern quarter of island of Borneo Population: 16,068,516 (July 1987), aver- age annual growth rate 2...

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...r infiltrated other ecosystem areas like the Indonesian jungle, the jungles of Borneo, Malaysia, and the Amazon Rainforest. However in Africa: t... ...alia was timid: they crossed from Timor. They were born new: they moved into Borneo, their chickens kept them alive: they called the land New Guinea... ...ucking living tribe of naked human apes on earth. Human apes: who lived in Borneo! In Australia! In Java! In India! In Asia! In Africa! In C...

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...left the harbour of Batavia, taking away the young couple into the unknown Borneo, she did not carry on her deck so much love and happiness as old Lin... ...e stir made in the whole of the island by the establishment of the British Borneo Company affected even the sluggish flow of the Pantai life. Great ch... ... importance, and so the decision issued from the fog-veiled offices of the Borneo Company darkened for Almayer the bril- liant sunshine of the Tropics... ... supposed to be in possession of valuable secrets. The coast population of Borneo believes implicitly in diamonds of fabu- lous value, in gold mines o...

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...eport (which they did), that Captain Julian Dacres had, in his day, been a Borneo pirate, surely were not worthy of credence in their collateral notio...

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...s satisfaction. “Y ou know,” he went on, “that fellow, when he gets on the Borneo coast, amuses himself by knocking down my bea- cons. I have had to p...

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... they had fallen in the sea, and they became the most beautiful islands of Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra, Java, and the rest of the Malay Archi- pelago, an...

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...The Country of the Blind IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY THE OBSERVATORY AT AVU, in Borneo, stands on the spur of the mountain. T o the north rises the old cra... ... the black tangle beneath him; for to the naturalist the virgin forests of Borneo are still a wonderland full of strange ques- tions and half-suspecte... ...d Thaddy groaned at the quotation—”and more particularly in the forests of Borneo, than are dreamt of in our philosophies. On the whole, if the Borneo...

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...sying himself with the cover, “since Sir Tho- mas Cochrane swept along the Borneo coast with his squadron some years ago. He did a rare lot of fight- ... ...night the yacht had gone ashore upon some outlying shoals off the coast of Borneo. The land was low. The opinion of the sailing-master was that the ve...

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...resolved on this voyage too, which we made very successfully , touching at Borneo and sev- eral other islands, and came home in about five months, whe...

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..., be let out on contract. So much by bid for converting India, so much for Borneo, so much for Africa. Competition allowed, stimulus would be given. T...

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...ful little thing whose esteem I value about as much as that of the king of Borneo. But she has given me a good reason for the rupture by accusing me o...

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...e a walking tour in Japan, and then I would sail in a sailing ship down to Borneo and Java and set myself up as a Ranee— … And then I would think what...

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... in China. He had taken part in an expedition against the head- hunters of Borneo and had known Samoa when it was still an independent state. He had t... ...untry in 776 Of Human Bondage Burmah, and what rich jungles in Sumatra or Borneo might he not visit? He was young still and time was no object to him...

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...8 Moby Dick ment, that the blood of a Polar whale is warmer than that of a Borneo negro in summer. It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare vir...

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... by exper iment, that the blood of a Polar whale is warmer than that of a Borneo negro in summer. It does seem tome, that herein we see the rare virt...

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...er dusk, and ten miles back, to hear Harold Smith talk for two hours about Borneo! One must do it, you know. ’ ‘I dare say it will be very interesting... ... him should have any other faith. They called him Viscount Papua and Baron Borneo; and his wife, who headed the joke against him, insisted on having h... ... whose seas are embedded with pearls and corals—Papua and the Philippines, Borneo and the Moluccas. My friends, you are familiar with your maps, and y... ...ese things? And then, when he had duly marked the path of the line through Borneo, Celebes, and Gilolo, through the Macassar Strait and the Molucca pa... ... it too, if you like it. But, I believe we may as well leave that to Baron Borneo—eh?’ And then Mark did go down and make the tea, and he did order th...

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...clearly represented by plants growing on the sum- mits of the mountains of Borneo. Some of these Aus- tralian forms, as I hear from Dr. Hooker, extend... ...ction. We see, however, a few southern vegetable forms on the mountains of Borneo and Abyssinia. I suspect that this preponderant migra- tion from nor...

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...the present day, by those who capture Chimpanzees, or other large apes, in Borneo. The grand saloon in which the masquerade was to take place, was a c...

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...yage to the Indian Archipelago. A party, of which he formed one, landed at Borneo, and passed into the interior on an ex- cursion of pleasure. Himself...

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...steamers and wonderful reconstructed boats that plied to the other tide of Borneo. These were loved and known, for they earned our bread and a little ...

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...ant. Even now, from considerations connected with China, with New Zealand, Borneo, Australia, we may say, that already the fields are white for harves...

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... Lassa! You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo! All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indiffer...

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...an archipelago, but all speak the same language: we saw the inhabitants of Borneo, Celebes, Java, and Sumatra. In colour they resemble the Tahitians, ...