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... Travellers --- Trip to Lake Omio - My Companion - A Whimsical Reception- Colonial Idea of a Bad Road - Wild and Forlorn View - A Team in the Mountains - Colonial Drivers - Chapter of Accidents - Descent of The Gulf " The Snowy River ...
... Travellers --- Trip to Lake Omio - My Companion - A Whimsical Reception- Colonial Idea of a Bad Road - Wild and Forlorn View - A Team in the Mountains - Colonial Drivers - Chapter of Accidents - Descent of The Gulf " The Snowy River ...
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... traveller finds himself seated in a vehicle to which the name of coach can be applied only by courtesy or by ... traveller's entertainment is confined to the " old thing , " as it is contemptuously called , that is to say , beef and ...
... traveller finds himself seated in a vehicle to which the name of coach can be applied only by courtesy or by ... traveller's entertainment is confined to the " old thing , " as it is contemptuously called , that is to say , beef and ...
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... traveller journeys onward , the forest once more closes behind him , and shuts out from view the favoured spot . After one of these passing glimpses of civilization , it is not without some slight misgivings that the stranger in the ...
... traveller journeys onward , the forest once more closes behind him , and shuts out from view the favoured spot . After one of these passing glimpses of civilization , it is not without some slight misgivings that the stranger in the ...
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... traveller rides away on the following morning , he has no reason to 66 Sigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an Inn ; " for at many of the settlers ' houses , where he gives for his enter- tainment no other equivalent ...
... traveller rides away on the following morning , he has no reason to 66 Sigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an Inn ; " for at many of the settlers ' houses , where he gives for his enter- tainment no other equivalent ...
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... traveller is destined to take at the time . These stories are occasionally only too true , but so many are fabrications , that perhaps the best way is to turn a deaf ear to them altogether . However , the stranger who listens to them ...
... traveller is destined to take at the time . These stories are occasionally only too true , but so many are fabrications , that perhaps the best way is to turn a deaf ear to them altogether . However , the stranger who listens to them ...
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