The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 52National Geographic Society, 1928 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... feet ceremony .ill . 644 Mauretanian dances : Africa . 23 Map : Mississippi River system . Map of world chiseled on bowlder : Swanage , Eng- land .. 245 .ill . ( aerial view ) 190 Mauritius : Indian Ocean .. 53 Maury , Islet named . 27 ...
... feet ceremony .ill . 644 Mauretanian dances : Africa . 23 Map : Mississippi River system . Map of world chiseled on bowlder : Swanage , Eng- land .. 245 .ill . ( aerial view ) 190 Mauritius : Indian Ocean .. 53 Maury , Islet named . 27 ...
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... feet , as they cheered arrival at land , not triced by their thumbs , as in days of yore . BLACKBIRDERS ' ISLANDS The Portuguese archipelago of the Cabo Verde , lying several hundred miles out in the Atlantic off the northwest shoulder ...
... feet , as they cheered arrival at land , not triced by their thumbs , as in days of yore . BLACKBIRDERS ' ISLANDS The Portuguese archipelago of the Cabo Verde , lying several hundred miles out in the Atlantic off the northwest shoulder ...
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... feet up the faces of steep mountains . Photograph by Geo . Finlay Simmons The husky porters , used to such work , fell in their tracks from exhaustion ; but Cuyler piled an additional load on top of his head and pushed on . Tons of ...
... feet up the faces of steep mountains . Photograph by Geo . Finlay Simmons The husky porters , used to such work , fell in their tracks from exhaustion ; but Cuyler piled an additional load on top of his head and pushed on . Tons of ...
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... feet above the sea , overlooking the little town of Ribeira Brava , on St. Nicholas ( São Nicolao ) , Cuyler and his men collected old birds and young of the gongon , or ghost , one of the rarest mountain petrels known to science ...
... feet above the sea , overlooking the little town of Ribeira Brava , on St. Nicholas ( São Nicolao ) , Cuyler and his men collected old birds and young of the gongon , or ghost , one of the rarest mountain petrels known to science ...
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... feet away , in four or five fathoms , the men in the anchored whaleboat were catching larger fish hand over hand . The middle island we called Dom Pedro Segundo , after the last emperor of Brazil . It rises to a height of , per- haps ...
... feet away , in four or five fathoms , the men in the anchored whaleboat were catching larger fish hand over hand . The middle island we called Dom Pedro Segundo , after the last emperor of Brazil . It rises to a height of , per- haps ...
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