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Oh, you've given me a taste of it; it's your own fault, Captain Selwyn, and now I desire more if you please in semi-weekly lingering doses " A perfect gale of laughter from the sofa cut her short. "Drina!" she exclaimed; "it's after eight! and I completely forgot." "Oh, dear!" protested the child, "he's being so funny about the war in Samar. Couldn't I stay up just five more minutes, Eileen?
The town and the cytee weren fulle wel sett in a fair contree and a playn; that men clepen the contree of Samar: of the whiche the walles of the cytee werein 200 cubytes in heighte, and 50 cubytes in breadthe. And the ryvere of Euphrate ran thorghe out the cytee and aboute the tour also. But Cirus the Kyng of Perse toke from hem the ryvere, and destroyede all the cytee and the tour also.
The same gentleman informs me there are reefs on the S.E. point of this island in front of Samar, extending from Malalabon to Bulusan. These appear to be the principal fringing-reefs on the coasts of Luzon; and they have all been coloured red. Mr.
It is as favorably situated with regard to the eatern portion of the Bisayan group as Iloilo is for the western, and is acquiring increased importance as the emporium for its products. Its distance from Samar is twenty-six, from Leyte two and a half, from Bohol four, and from Negros eighteen miles.
Tranquillity has existed during the past year throughout the Archipelago, except in the Province of Cavite, the Province of Batangas and the Province of Samar, and in the Island of Jolo among the Moros.
"Cairo! Zanzibar! Brazil! Trinidad! Seville uh Samar Samarkand." "Where's Samarkand?" "I don't know. And I'm going to see it all some day. And the different people. The people that travel, and know about what kind of wine with the roast and the fish. You know the kind in the novels that say, 'You've chilled this sauterne too much, Bemish." "And when you do see all these places," retorted Mrs.
On January 29, 1899, the town of Hernani, in Samar, elected its municipal officials under the supervision of V. Lukban. Fifty-four men voted. The town has a population of twenty-five hundred and fifty-five. The elections, so-called, were not always held without protest.
"Where you going from Honolulu, Miss Pardee?" "Samarkand." "Beg pardon?" "Samarkand." "Oh, yeh. Samar le' see now, where is that, exactly? I used to know, but I'm such a hand for forgetting " "I don't know," said Maxine, distinctly. "Don't but I thought you said you were going " "I am. But I don't know where it is." "Then how "
Gunboats Paragua, Callao, Samar, Pampagna, and Arayat, built 1881-6, steel, 137 tons, 10 knots, and each mounting two quick-firing guns. Gunboats Mariveles and Mindoro, built in 1886 and 1885, iron, 142 tons, 10 knots, each mounting one 2.7-inch rifle and four machine guns. Gunboat Manileno, built in 1887, wood, 142 tons, 9 knots, and mounting three 3.5-inch rifles.
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