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As the party had a long distance to go, some twelve kilomètres, General Molon had lent Le Pontois his motor-car, which now stood awaiting him with glaring headlights in the barrack-square. As the hall emptied Paul glanced around him while awaiting Enid. On the walls the French tricolour was everywhere displayed, the revered drapeau under which he had so gallantly and nobly served against the Huns.
The vain little dancer interrupted about "broken-down horses" ... "Excuses donc this was no disabled horse, such as goes to the front these are some horses pardon, whom you give eat, this, it is colie, that, the other, it's colie this never he could go forty kilometres a day...." One of the strongest men I have seen in my life is crying because he has had to sell his favourite horse.
"Hasn't it been a nice afternoon?" I said questioningly. "But you know, that theory of yours about women and Love it's as old as the hills oh, older!" From the road a sudden shout of triumph. Yes, there he was again white beard, silk handkerchief and undaunted enthusiasm. "What did I say? Eight kilometres it is!" "Seven and a half!" shrieked Herr Erchardt. "Why, then, do you return in carts?
Loing went to a new Chinese hotel, while I, in a prahu, paddled to the pasang-grahan, a spacious building with several rooms. Our journey through Central Borneo had been successfully concluded, and during nine months we had covered by river 1,650 kilometres, 750 of these in native boats.
We again made less than five kilometres; in the two days we had been descending nearly a metre for every kilometre we made in advance; and it hardly seemed as if this state of things could last, for the aneroid showed that we were getting very low down. How I longed for a big Maine birch-bark, such as that in which I once went down the Mattawamkeag at high water!
On the whole the Greeks gained 13,200 square kilometres in territory and about 150,000 inhabitants, but their failure to gain several Hellenic districts of Epirus rankled deep in the popular consciousness and prepared the way for the events of 1885 and 1897. These later developments can receive here only the briefest reference.
That road, with its long line of poplars, after crossing the ante-war French border, runs straight for twenty kilomètres towards the abrupt range of high hills which form the natural frontier of France, and then, at Haudiomont, enters a narrow pass, over twelve kilomètres long, before it reaches the broad valley of the Meuse.
Why this halt in the outskirts of Rouen when a quick run, a quick handing over of the package is so essential?... With such a powerful machine, why this stop in a journey of some 225 kilometres?" Fandor felt a cold shiver run down his spine. "Suppose this abbé is playing a trick on me?... If yesterday, to-day, ... no matter when ... I have betrayed myself?
The triangles were two cross-country flights of two hundred kilometres each, three landings to be made en route, and each flight to be completed within forty-eight hours. In addition, there were two short voyages of sixty kilometres each these preceded the triangular tests and an hour of flight at a minimum altitude of sixty-five hundred feet.
We were, according to our informants, about fifteen days' journey from the confluence of the two rivers; but there were many rubbermen along the banks, some of whom had become permanent settlers. We had come over three hundred kilometres, in forty-eight days, over absolutely unknown ground; we had seen no human being, although we had twice heard Indians.
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