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  2. A DESERT CARAVAN.

    A great caravan in march is a superb spectacle, alas too infrequent now in Northern Africa. At first Arabs alone can detect it, a mere speck lost in a dusty halo, ...

    Article : 246 words
  3. TWO EXPERIENCES WITH WARRIOR ANTS.

    It was in Honduras, near the Caribbean coast, while on a Government survey, that I first saw the warrior ants-those strange insects which march through the tropical ...

    Article : 1,684 words
  4. EASTERN MARRIAGE CUSTOMS.

    Bride-purchase is a custom which has been, at some time or other, practised almost all over the world; and where we do not find it still in all its ancient force ...

    Article : 1,218 words
  5. COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE.

    Roster.—Messrs R. Wardlaw (chairman), J. Anderson, J. Morey, W. F. Hardy, R. Hardy, Colonel Legge (hon. sec.).Pests.—The secretary laid on the table ...

    Article : 695 words
  6. VICTIMS OF APACHES.

    A sensational discovery is reported from America. A number of miners were recently prospecting in an old copper canyon in Missouri, when, in what is known as ...

    Article : 232 words
  7. A PLACE OF SAFETY.

    It may be interesting to know—and the fact will be of the greatest importance to timorous individuals who know not where to store their possessions—that there is in ...

    Article : 760 words
  8. A RUSSIAN CAPTAIN.

    One fine winter's morning sleigh bells jingled in our Russian village. A police captain and his lieutenant made their appearance, wrapped up in furs. Behind ...

    Article : 580 words
  9. A SHETLANDER'S ROMANCE.

    Some days back (says the Edinburgh Evening Despatch) there was launched from a Clydeside yard a sailing vessel built to the order of Mr Clunies Ross, the ...

    Article : 434 words
  10. WESTBURY.

    The Westbury Board of Agriculture helda special meeting on May 5, for the purpose of considering the advisableness of forming a class for instruction in agricultural ...

    Article : 125 words
  11. EARLY DAYS OF TASMANIA.

    Writing under the above heading Mr James Erskine Calder, late Surveyor- General of Tasmania, gives some interesting details regarding the foundation of ...

    Article : 721 words
  12. THE DARK CONTINENT.

    Stanley found St. Jacobs oil in the centre of the Dark Continent, wherever the caravans of the Arab slave dealer had been. Emin Pasha bad St. Jacobs oil in his settlement, and so it is ...

    Article : 115 words
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