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Page 101
... Chinese clerks sit impassive within the shops and stare idly at the passers - by . Sometimes , at night , you see a pair , yellow , lined , with slanting eyes , intent on a mysterious game which might be the Chinese equivalent of chess ...
... Chinese clerks sit impassive within the shops and stare idly at the passers - by . Sometimes , at night , you see a pair , yellow , lined , with slanting eyes , intent on a mysterious game which might be the Chinese equivalent of chess ...
Page 137
... Chinese . The skipper was a fair , red - faced native with blue eyes , tall and stout ; he spoke a little English and perhaps his father was an English sailor . As soon as we got out of the reef it was clear that we were in for a bad ...
... Chinese . The skipper was a fair , red - faced native with blue eyes , tall and stout ; he spoke a little English and perhaps his father was an English sailor . As soon as we got out of the reef it was clear that we were in for a bad ...
Page 222
... Chinese traders live . During our stay we had our meals in the store of one of them . It was a treat to eat curry after living for a week on dugong , corned beef , coarse fish and canned fruit . In the muddy dry creeks there are ...
... Chinese traders live . During our stay we had our meals in the store of one of them . It was a treat to eat curry after living for a week on dugong , corned beef , coarse fish and canned fruit . In the muddy dry creeks there are ...
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