The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 25; Volume 36National Geographic Society, 1914 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... feet below . Guermessa , the ancestral home of Sidi Hadj and his five sons , is one of the wildest and most difficult Troglodyte towns to reach . It is situated on the top of a sugar - loaf mountain , the sides of which rise ...
... feet below . Guermessa , the ancestral home of Sidi Hadj and his five sons , is one of the wildest and most difficult Troglodyte towns to reach . It is situated on the top of a sugar - loaf mountain , the sides of which rise ...
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... feet high by 14 feet wide and about 24 feet deep . Two Persian pictures of Mecca deco- rated the walls , and some ornamental bernous for wearing during a fantasia , and the usual cous - cous plates and plat- ters brought from Ghadames ...
... feet high by 14 feet wide and about 24 feet deep . Two Persian pictures of Mecca deco- rated the walls , and some ornamental bernous for wearing during a fantasia , and the usual cous - cous plates and plat- ters brought from Ghadames ...
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... feet below us wound and wriggled what looked like an earth- worm - a belated caravan of camels heading toward some gourbis ( Bedouin tents ) whose camp - fire dotted the distant landscape . Everything was still and no one spoke ; all ...
... feet below us wound and wriggled what looked like an earth- worm - a belated caravan of camels heading toward some gourbis ( Bedouin tents ) whose camp - fire dotted the distant landscape . Everything was still and no one spoke ; all ...
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... feet surely meant death , and it seemed as if every bone in her body must have been broken . Her relatives and family went down to pick up her remains , and two hours later she was brought up , more dead than alive . I expressed my ...
... feet surely meant death , and it seemed as if every bone in her body must have been broken . Her relatives and family went down to pick up her remains , and two hours later she was brought up , more dead than alive . I expressed my ...
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... feet in depth by about 195 feet in circumference . One enters these great courtyards , which are open to the sky , by means of under- ground tunnels cut out of rock , which is quite soft and can be dug through with a spade , but it ...
... feet in depth by about 195 feet in circumference . One enters these great courtyards , which are open to the sky , by means of under- ground tunnels cut out of rock , which is quite soft and can be dug through with a spade , but it ...
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