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... flying at about eight hundred feet , and around one hundred and sixty miles an hour . The ground was very broken , with lakes , clumps of trees , little fields , but as usual our engine was purring its steady , unvarying drone .
... flying at about eight hundred feet , and around one hundred and sixty miles an hour . The ground was very broken , with lakes , clumps of trees , little fields , but as usual our engine was purring its steady , unvarying drone .
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The ground swarmed with black Norwegian rats and coconut crabs , the latter a foot long , their bodies scarlet - red , their eyes protrud- ing , their claws powerful enough to snap off a man's finger . Millions of birds roosted like ...
The ground swarmed with black Norwegian rats and coconut crabs , the latter a foot long , their bodies scarlet - red , their eyes protrud- ing , their claws powerful enough to snap off a man's finger . Millions of birds roosted like ...
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He would never be able to do it on the ground . There was not a bump in the evening air ; the machine slid round and round its great circle with scarcely a sound , only the sough of the air over the polished surfaces .
He would never be able to do it on the ground . There was not a bump in the evening air ; the machine slid round and round its great circle with scarcely a sound , only the sough of the air over the polished surfaces .
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