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She saw the broad river; and all the children shouted, "Die Weser." One little flaxen-haired girl told her they were nearing Hamelin. "It used to have a big wall around it, with twenty towers and a large fort; but that was all blown up by the French, years and years ago," she explained. "But it has a chain-bridge," she remarked proudly, "a chain-bridge that stretches quite across the Weser."
For a republic is a republic, and Niagara is Niagara forever; but tell how you stood on the chain-bridge at Niagara if there is one there and bought a cake of shaving-soap from a tribe of Indians at a fabulous price, or how your baby jumped from the arms of the careless nurse into the Falls, and immediately your own individuality is thrown around the scenery, and it acquires a human interest.
His next recollection of himself was in the first of the morning, on the lofty chain-bridge over the river Daur. Before him lay he knew not what, only escape from what was behind. His faith in men seemed ruined. The city, his home, was frightful to him. Quarrels and curses and blows he had been used to, and amidst them life could be lived.
For a republic is a republic, and Niagara is Niagara forever; but tell how you stood on the chain-bridge at Niagara if there is one there and bought a cake of shaving-soap from a tribe of Indians at a fabulous price, or how your baby jumped from the arms of the careless nurse into the Falls, and immediately your own individuality is thrown around the scenery, and it acquires a human interest.
Cronje and his officers decided to make an attempt to escape, and on Sunday morning the burghers commenced the construction of a chain-bridge across the Modder to facilitate the crossing of the swollen river.
Chingtam village, view from Mywa river and Guola House Boulders Chain-bridge Meepo, arrival of Fevers. Owing to the unsatisfactory nature of our relations with the Sikkim authorities, to which I have elsewhere alluded, my endeavours to procure leave to penetrate further beyond the Dorjiling territory than Tonglo, were attended with some trouble and delay.
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