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Garrett, one knows that Jameson's 600 were only 530 at most, when you count out his native drivers, etc.; and that the 530 consisted largely of "green" youths, "raw young fellows," not trained and war-worn British soldiers; and I would have told Jameson that those lads would not be able to shoot effectively from horseback in the scamper and racket of battle, and that there would not be anything for them to shoot at, anyway, but rocks; for the Boers would be behind the rocks, not out in the open.
Perception consists in seeing that a truth is true, and that a good is good; also that an evil is evil, and a false is false, A.C. 7680. Its opposite is phantasy. See Phantasy, obs. PEREGRINATIONS of man in the societies of the spiritual world, during his life in the natural world, 530. PERIODS whereby creation is preserved in the state foreseen and provided for, 400, 401.
The electrified molecules are projected from the negative pole with enormous velocity, varying, however, with the degree of exhaustion and intensity of the induction current." Phil. Trans., part i., 1879, par. 530. "The extra velocity with which the molecules rebound from the excited negative pole keeps back the more slowly moving molecules which are advancing toward the pole.
Besides these, while in the province of Cuzco, he was joined by Juan de Saavedra with a squadron of eighty five men of the principal interest and fortune in the country. On entering Cuzco, Alvarado was above 1200 strong; having 300 horse, 350 musqueteers, and about 530 armed with pikes and halberts.
The fifth construction of Count Zeppelin's was 446 feet in length, 42 1/2 feet in diameter, and contained 530,000 cubic feet of hydrogen gas in 17 separate compartments.
Shackleton's exploit is the most brilliant incident in the history of Antarctic exploration. The distance covered, out and back, was 1,530 geographical miles. The time occupied was 127 days 73 days out and 54 days back. The average daily march was about 12 miles.
In it are several dungeon-like towers, and it was probably a castle built upon Djebel Kobeys by Mekether el Hashemy, a chief of Mekka, about the year 530 or 540 of the Hedjra; or it may have been a mosque called Mesdjid Ibrahim, which, according to Azraky, stood here in the seventh century of our era.
Otherwise there is nothing further to record, and I close this volume of my Journal under circumstances which cannot be considered cheerful. Still in the Ice Wednesday, December 28, 1910. Obs. Noon, 69° 17' S., 179° 42' W. Made good since 26th S. 74 W. 31'; C. Crozier S. 22 W. 530'. The gale has abated. The wind lulled in the middle watch and has fallen to force 2 to 3.
Edward Wragge's excellent notes. "Summer Route MILES. Liverpool to Quebec, via Belle Isle 2,661 Quebec to Montreal 172 Montreal to Port Moody 2,892 Port Moody to Vancouver 12 Vancouver to Victoria 78 Vancouver to Yokohama 4,334 Vancouver to Hongkong 5,936 "Winter Route MILES. Liverpool to Halifax 2,530 Halifax to Quebec 678 Other points as in summer.
The apples from these young trees sold for enough last year to net ninety cents for each tree, which is more than the trees have ever cost me. In 1898 these orchards yielded $38; in 1899, $165; in 1900, $530; in 1901, $1117.
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