The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 59National Geographic Society, 1931 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page xxi
... Capital South- ward Over Jungles , Remote Islands , and Great Cities on an Aerial Survey of the East Coast of South America . By Frederick Simpich . 77 ills . , 1 page map , Jan ... Photographs of .. Sind Valley , India . Page Page ...
... Capital South- ward Over Jungles , Remote Islands , and Great Cities on an Aerial Survey of the East Coast of South America . By Frederick Simpich . 77 ills . , 1 page map , Jan ... Photographs of .. Sind Valley , India . Page Page ...
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... capital fell an easy prey to Sir Francis Drake , and a ransom was extorted by methods smacking of the torture chamber . Each day proscribed buildings were demolished until about a third of the city lay in ruins . Then the cit- izens ...
... capital fell an easy prey to Sir Francis Drake , and a ransom was extorted by methods smacking of the torture chamber . Each day proscribed buildings were demolished until about a third of the city lay in ruins . Then the cit- izens ...
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... CAPITAL OF CAMEROUN IS A BOOM TOWN Yaoundé is a boom town . The French Government , largely because the high offi- cials found the humid heat of Douala unbearable , changed the capital in 1921 . The business of making a prosperous city ...
... CAPITAL OF CAMEROUN IS A BOOM TOWN Yaoundé is a boom town . The French Government , largely because the high offi- cials found the humid heat of Douala unbearable , changed the capital in 1921 . The business of making a prosperous city ...
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A Vast African Territory Ruled by Petty Sultans Under French | 225 |
Through an Asiatic No Mans Land to the Desert | 319 |
Rounding the Horn in a Windjammer By A J VILLIERS 191 | 416 |
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