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Cowperwood allowed Haguenin to gather the very interesting traffic significance of it all before he proceeded. "On the map, Mr.
For four years its streets were crowded with heavy freight vans, while stores and hotels reaped a rich harvest from the sailors of the vessels engaged in the contraband traffic. Now it is as quiet and sleepy a little town as can be found in all the drowsy land of Mexico. But the true paradise of the blockade-runners was Nassau, the chief port of the Bahama Islands, and a colony of Great Britain.
It would not altogether interrupt trade, for timber would be required, as usual, in Saxony and Hanover. As a rule, neither of the contending armies interfered with the river traffic; though communications by land were greatly interrupted, owing to the peasants' carts being impressed for military service.
As soon as the traffic is concluded, one of the boats pulls in under cover of the muskets of the others, the fruit is quickly thrown into her, and the transient visitors precipitately retire from what they justly consider so dangerous a vicinity. * The word 'Kanaka' is at the present day universally used in the South Seas by Europeans to designate the Islanders.
I knew where the police station was in a street off Oxford Street, but when we got to the street I passed it. The officer called out, but I didn't hear him. At the next corner he yelled again, but I got in front of a convenient bus." "Why didn't you turn there," he said. "Then you would have had a real charge against me," I said, "for breaking the rules of traffic."
Leonard and his new friend lowered themselves on a swinging platform over the twelve-foot pontoon and joined in the work. Tug and dock were now passing through the congested traffic of the lower Thames and the enormous English shipping spread in a panorama before them.
It was through this throng of seething khaki and transport traffic that our water-cart jostled and pushed. Often we had to pull up to let the Indian Pack-mule Corps pass, and it was at one of these halts that I happened to come close to one of these dusky soldiers waiting calmly by the side of his mules.
"Hoity, toity! Not so fast," said the parrot. "I've no doubt you think yourself very grand with your kid gloves and your consequential airs; but allow me to inform you that I am some one of consequence in these parts, too. I am a police officer, and regulate the traffic, so move on, there, and don't block the way."
The influx of this wandering trade has had its effects on the habits of the mountain tribes. They have found the trapping of the beaver their most profitable species of hunting; and the traffic with the white man has opened to them sources of luxury of which they previously had no idea.
I hope you will not forbid us, General? two people a week is all the traffic." "Forbid them not I," said Carnegie, laughing. "A man is not born and bred in this parish without learning some sense. It would be a right of way case, and Drumtochty would follow me from court to court, and would never rest till they had gained or we were all ruined. "Has it ever struck you, Mr.
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