Geographical and Industrial Studies; AsiaGinn, 1916 - 450 sivua |
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Afghanistan bazaars beans beautiful boats buildings Calcutta camels canals caravans carried Caspian Sea Central Asia Ceylon China Chinese cloth coolies cotton covered crops crowded Dairen desert East eastern England farmers farms farther feet fertile fields forests Formosa furs Ganges River grain Hindu horses houses hundred immense important India industry Irkutsk island Japan Japanese journey Korea Krasnovodsk land leaves Lhasa live loaded Locate each place look Manchuria manufacture miles millet Mongolia mountains narrow natives nearly northern ocean pass Peking Persia plains plants port quantities queer railroad region rice ride River route rugs Russian Siberia silk skins southern streets stretches thousand Tibet to-day towns trade Trans-Siberian Railroad trees trip Turkestan Underwood & Underwood Underwood FIG United valley village Vladivostok walls western women wonder Yangtze Yangtze River Yokohama
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Sivu 17 - WHEN I WAS A BACHELOR" WHEN I was a bachelor I lived by myself; And all the bread and cheese I got I put upon the shelf. The rats and the mice They made such a strife, I was forced to go to London To buy me a wife. The streets were so bad, And the lanes were so narrow, I was forced to bring my wife home In a wheelbarrow.
Sivu 73 - You are all too anxious to awake us and start us on a new road, and you will do it ; but you will all regret it, for, once awaking and started, we shall go fast and far — farther than you think — much farther than you want I
Sivu 251 - It appeared to me pretty much like the embarkation of the wise men of Gotham, who went to sea in a bowl...
Sivu 205 - ... many-voiced, colourful. Rippling with the currents of the South and Eastern trade. Here are Persian carpets, ivory and peach-bloom. Tints to fill the heart of any child of man, Here are copper rose-bowls, leopard-skins, emeralds, Scarlet slippers curly-toed and beads from Kordofan. Water-sellers pass with brazen saucers tinkling; Hajjis in the doorways tell their amber beads; Buy a lump of turquoise, a scimitar, a neckerchief Worked with rose and saffron for a lovely lady's needs. Here we pass...
Sivu 179 - It would stretch in a straight line entirely across the United States from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico.
Sivu 374 - Singapore, we should need a row of buildings each one hundred feet long, one hundred feet wide, and one hundred feet high, stretching for a third of a mile along the water front.
Sivu 205 - ... bazaar: Dive in from the sunlight, smiting like a falchion, Underneath the awnings to the sudden shade. Saunter through the packed lane, many-voiced, colourful. Rippling with the currents of the South and Eastern trade. Here are Persian carpets, ivory and peach-bloom. Tints to fill the heart of any child of man, Here are copper rose-bowls, leopard-skins, emeralds, Scarlet slippers curly-toed and beads from Kordofan.
Sivu 72 - ... take on the general appearance of Western society until there has occurred a far-reaching readjustment between population and opportunities. On the one hand, the Chinese will have to build railroads, open mines, sink petroleum wells, harness water-power, erect mills, adopt machinery, reforest their mountains, construct irrigation works, introduce better breeds of domestic animals and plants, and apply science to the production of food.
Sivu 190 - When we awake, the first thing we do is to look out of the window to get a glimpse of the country through which we are passing.