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... officer - Majuba Hill - Mountain station - Kingston curiosities - Tobacco - Valley in the Blue Mountains CHAPTER XIV . Visit to Port Royal - Dockyard - Town - Church - Fort Augusta -The eyrie in the mountains - Ride to Newcastle ...
... officer - Majuba Hill - Mountain station - Kingston curiosities - Tobacco - Valley in the Blue Mountains CHAPTER XIV . Visit to Port Royal - Dockyard - Town - Church - Fort Augusta -The eyrie in the mountains - Ride to Newcastle ...
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... officer - Majuba Hill - Mountain station - Kingston curiosities - Tobacco - Valley in the Blue Mountains CHAPTER XIV . Visit to Port Royal - Dockyard - Town - Church - Fort Augusta —The eyrie in the mountains - Ride to Newcastle ...
... officer - Majuba Hill - Mountain station - Kingston curiosities - Tobacco - Valley in the Blue Mountains CHAPTER XIV . Visit to Port Royal - Dockyard - Town - Church - Fort Augusta —The eyrie in the mountains - Ride to Newcastle ...
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... officers going out to join their regiments ; planters who had been at home on business ; young sportsmen with rifles and cartridge cases who were hoping to shoot alligators , & c . , all bound like myself for the West Indian mail ...
... officers going out to join their regiments ; planters who had been at home on business ; young sportsmen with rifles and cartridge cases who were hoping to shoot alligators , & c . , all bound like myself for the West Indian mail ...
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... officers flirted mildly with the pretty young ladies . For a brief interval care and anxiety had spread their wings and flown away , and existence itself became delightful . 6 There was a young scientific man on board who inte- rested ...
... officers flirted mildly with the pretty young ladies . For a brief interval care and anxiety had spread their wings and flown away , and existence itself became delightful . 6 There was a young scientific man on board who inte- rested ...
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... have been well - to - do , for the boy had been in Europe to be educated . The officers on board and some of the ladies played with him as they would play PASSENGERS 25 , with a monkey . He had little 24 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
... have been well - to - do , for the boy had been in Europe to be educated . The officers on board and some of the ladies played with him as they would play PASSENGERS 25 , with a monkey . He had little 24 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
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