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Page 7
... all day long and crossed the bar at night . Six hundred niggers in the hold and seventy we did stow , And when we'd clapped the hatches on ' t was time for us to go . " Time for us to go , Time for us AT HOME IN PUKA - PUKA 7.
... all day long and crossed the bar at night . Six hundred niggers in the hold and seventy we did stow , And when we'd clapped the hatches on ' t was time for us to go . " Time for us to go , Time for us AT HOME IN PUKA - PUKA 7.
Page 21
... hold credit expansion in check ; now we pro- ceeded to release credit on a grand scale we began to utilize for credit purposes some of the gold we had sterilized prior to 1924 . unexpected move was that we were trying to do something to ...
... hold credit expansion in check ; now we pro- ceeded to release credit on a grand scale we began to utilize for credit purposes some of the gold we had sterilized prior to 1924 . unexpected move was that we were trying to do something to ...
Page 25
... hold upon the shifting grains . With my penknife I began excavating on one side , going down and down until at last I discov- ered its foot on a horizontal mangrove root , eight inches below the surface . When I dislodged it , a thick ...
... hold upon the shifting grains . With my penknife I began excavating on one side , going down and down until at last I discov- ered its foot on a horizontal mangrove root , eight inches below the surface . When I dislodged it , a thick ...
Page 27
... hold up one's hands and see one growing larger and larger , while the other stays unchanged . It is fortunate that one does remain un- altered , for the great claw is more in the way than it is useful . While the body of the crab is ...
... hold up one's hands and see one growing larger and larger , while the other stays unchanged . It is fortunate that one does remain un- altered , for the great claw is more in the way than it is useful . While the body of the crab is ...
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... hold a sixty- pound weight at arm's length . The crab's record is ten minutes . My Haitian fiddler crabs were chris- tened sixty years ago by a certain Dr. Smith , who called them Uca mordax- from Uça , a native Brazilian name , and a ...
... hold a sixty- pound weight at arm's length . The crab's record is ten minutes . My Haitian fiddler crabs were chris- tened sixty years ago by a certain Dr. Smith , who called them Uca mordax- from Uça , a native Brazilian name , and a ...
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