How To Use Rajah In A Sentence
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The day before yesterday an edict against catching fish, being taken off as I supposed it would be on shewing the Rajah some flies, Blake and I went down, and repeated our visit yesterday; the bed of the river at the debouchment of the path leading towards Tongsa, is elevated 1,431 feet,
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Maharajah of Travancore; the Nabob of Jubbelpore; the Begum of Bhopal; the Nawab of Mysore; the Rance of Gulnare; the Ahkoond of Swat's; the Rao of Rohilkund; the Gaikwar of Baroda.
Following the Equator, Part 5
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Lowering his spear-point the Maharajah bent forward in the saddle; but at the last moment the pig "jinked," that is, turned sharply at right angles to his former course, and bounded away untouched, while the baffled sportsman was carried on helplessly by his excited horse.
The Jungle Girl
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According to some history books and big Indian epics, Aryans were separated into several tribes with Rajah, the Indian chieftain.
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The king is called rajah and is very powerful, for he comes sometimes against Columbo, where the
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
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Using the best local materials and reviving traditional techniques, Abu and Sandeep re-create an India of rajahs and maharanis for Bollywood and Hollywood's elite.
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Mr. Dupré, as the basis for negotiating the treaty made with the Rajah in 1771, the Nabob required that the Arnee district should be delivered up to the circar, because the braminees had broken the conditions which they were to have observed.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
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And profits were defended by courts, so they were not subject to the larcenous whims of the local sheikh or rajah.
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He became "rajah," that is to say "shining," for such was the meaning of the word at the Vedic epoch.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
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Near Rajahmundry, about 400 cuttings are planted on a cutcha beegah
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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The town itself, the capital of a small rajahship governed by an Englishman, lies some twenty miles up a river, in the estuary of which we are anchored.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
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The Rajah seated himself opposite to her in a similar chair, and a similar spittoon and sirih-box were held by a little boy squatting at his side.
The Malay Archipelago
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As legend has it, an Indian rajah sent a gift of a chess set to a king of kings as a challenge for his wise men to solve. They did, and ever since sets have been exchanged as gifts between world leaders.
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During the next few days some time was spent in shooting with the Maharajah of Bhurtpore; a grand ball was given at the Fort; a long interview granted Sir Dinkur Rao, the Native statesman; local convents and schools visited; the tomb of Akbar the Great -- described as the grandest in the world -- seen at Sekundra; a visit paid to the loyal
The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V
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-- In the Rajahmundry district, during the months of April and May, the ground is frequently ploughed, until brought into a very fine tilth.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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And, reluctantly, the Rajah and the Rani and the Rani's aunt and the palace staff left the beast with Cinnamon.
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Recently restored by business man Suresh -- a Ben Kingsley lookalike -- and his wife, a descendant of the maharajah, the Chittoor Palace is run as an exclusive guesthouse for the likes of honeymooners, who can stay in the sumptuous rooms of the royals and enjoy the idyllic surroundings and traditional entertainment such as Kathakali, a dance-drama form where every action, even the tiniest eye movement, has significance.
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What Mr. Calvert would have replied is no matter for this history, since at this precise moment the Rajah came in, "coruscating," as
A Fool for Love
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Note 9: The French had a factory, for instance, in Yanam, near Rajahmundry, and the Dutch had many factories, including a presence in Bimilipatnam, near Vizagapatam.
Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India
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The Rajah is without authority, and even his name disused in the official instruments issued or taken by the manager.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)
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Maharajahs, elephants, dusty plains, imposing mountains, teeming bazaars… and loyal Indian jemadars and subedars who made sturdy and trusty subordinates.
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Piracy," by which these rivers were said to be infested, is a very ugly word, suggestive of ugly deeds, bloody attacks, black flags, and no quarter; but here it meant, in our use of the word at least, a particular mode of raising revenue, and no boat could go up or down the Linggi without paying black-mail to one or more river rajahs.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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We went to the Rajahmundry area because volcanic layers, called traps … are found in this area interbedded in shallow marine sediments that contain microfossils, which yield age control," explained geologist Gerta Keller of Princeton University.
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Liffey's expression of the worth of his country and its constitution rehearses an earlier speech in which he teaches the Rajah that "An Irishman is an Englishman with another name .... and we are like two arms, when one needs defence, the other naturally comes to his assistance" (172).
Through Colonial Spectacles: the Irish Vizier and the Female-Knight in James Cobb
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The rajah was the only one in European costume, and at the first glance at the man, with his heavy fat sensual-looking face and lurid eyes, Ned recalled his companion's words: "Whatever you see, do not laugh.
The Rajah of Dah
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The authorities in southern Rajahmundry have hired groups of drummers to play nonstop outside the homes of property tax evaders until they pay up.
Taxing.
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Since another company had by this time registered the name Rajah for their product, the brand was named Kajah.
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She wore a rich, striped, red silk sarong, and a very short, green silk kabaya with diamond clasps; but I saw very little of her dress or herself, because she was almost enveloped in a pure white veil of a fine woolen material spangled with gold stars, and she concealed so much of her face with it, in consequence of the presence of the Rajah
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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As legend has it, an Indian rajah sent a gift of a chess set to a king of kings as a challenge for his wise men to solve. They did, and ever since sets have been exchanged as gifts between world leaders.
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In the few hours which had elapsed since the ghastly discovery, the brocades and kincob of the audience-tents had been torn down and distributed, the cushions deprived of their rich covers, and the very _gaddi_ on which the Rajah's body had been found stripped of its damask.
The Path to Honour
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He was taken to Bondee, where the rajah took charge of him till he was carried off by Janoo, a lad who was khidmutgar (table-attendant) to a travelling Cashmere merchant.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852
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In camp he gave Rajah much freedom, its wings being clipt; and nothing pleased the little rebel so much as to claw his way up to his master's shoulder, sit there and watch the progress of the razor, with intermittent "jawing" at his own reflection in the cracked hand-mirror.
Parrot & Co.
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Which meant sorting out wheat from chaff, and living like a rajah while he did so.
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We have an indefinable impression that the rajah is a sensuous, indolent, extravagant sybarite, given to polo, diamonds and dancing girls, and amputates the heads of his subjects at pleasure; but that is very far from the truth.
Modern India
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Rajah added that the jail term meted out to Lim Teck Choon, 56, took into account mitigating factors raised by his lawyer.
Lim Kit Siang
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In the afternoon the young Maharajah rode on his elephant, showering gold and silver coins on jubilant crowds of his subjects.
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On their arrival they were received and brought up amid large wax torches, and the person who was to read them was stationed on a raised platform; standing below him was the rajah, with a saber in his hand; in front of the rajah was his brother, Pangeran Jaffer, with a tremendous kempilan drawn; and around were the other brothers and myself, all standing -- the rest of the company being seated.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
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The chauffeur, a Russian Czar from the period of Ivan the Terrible, was a fabulous guide who knew of all the kings and rajahs who had come to the area for several reasons, and brought the names of different towns and places to life.
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The rajah of Cochin, being apprehensive that the great power which was now employed against Cuneale might prove his ruin, by uniting the zamorin his ancient enemy with the Portuguese, circulated a report that the zamorin had entered into a secret agreement with Cuneale to cut off the whole Portuguese when engaged in the assault on the fort.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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I met maharajahs and sultans and all kinds of Asian nobles.
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We went to the Rajahmundry area because volcanic layers, called traps … are found in this area interbedded in shallow marine sediments that contain microfossils, which yield age control," explained geologist Gerta Keller of Princeton University.
Dinos Doomed by Mega-Eruption, Not Meteor? | Impact Lab
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In the Rajahmundry district, previously to planting, the soil is slightly manured, either by having cattle folded upon it, or by a light covering of the rotten straw of the green and black pessalloo, which is here a favourite fertiliser.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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The Moslems do indulge in opium and the Alfurus in sagwire*, but gambling is restricted to the Rajah and the headmen—strangely enough, their favorite game is vingt-et-un. my bold emphasis
Archive 2008-08-01
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The Rajah of Benares receives from the English government an annual pension of one lac, that is, 100,000 rupees (10,000 pounds).
A Woman's Journey Round the World
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Edward VIII frequently dined there when he was Prince of Wales, and, the night after the boats from India berthed at the London docks, there was always an influx of maharajahs.
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Equally, as a Governor-General above the political fray, he played a crucial role in persuading maharajahs and nawabs distrustful of the socialist Nehru to accept that they had no choice but to merge their domains into the Indian Union.
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As we drove into the qila's courtyard we saw a crowd of between twenty and 30 retainers massing to greet the rajah, all frantically bowing and salaaming; as Suleiman got out of the car the foremost ones dived to touch his feet.
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We were to take the bind rajah to his wedding in style.
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And what son of a Rajah is the man in the palkee?" asked she.
Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
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Among the Rajah's bewildering array of balti choices, two stand out.
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A 19th century French traveler described an excruciating method in India during the rule of the Rajahs.
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Along one side of the square there ran the high brick wall, topped with a kind of battlement, that guarded the Maharajah's palace grounds from the eyes of men.
Rung Ho
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Once the rajah was dressed in English sporting plaids in India, and once he was in a carriage in London dressed in his native costume, bejeweled and ‘blazing with diamonds.’
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I had nothing to offer to his rajahship; but I found out afterward that Mr. Brooke had (unknown to me) sent him a clock in my name.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
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The rajah is a regular old pirate, as my father says, and he helps himself to whatever he fancies from everybody round, but there's nothing stingy about him as you'll find.
The Rajah of Dah
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Unlike the sultans of Malaya, who retained a constitutional position after the British left in 1957, India's maharajahs could retain only their titles and personal assets.
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Sultans, rajahs, maharajahs, datus, etc., under ordinary circumstances have been and still are in most of the unprotected States unable to control the chiefs under them, who have independently levied taxes and blackmail till the harassed cultivators came scarcely to care to possess property which might at any time be seized.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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Did he ever state it to the Rajah, or did he call his vakeel before the Council to answer the charge?
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)
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In the account given by the Begum, a lac, which is for Mr. Hastings's entertainment, is entered in a suspicious neighborhood; for there is there entered a lac of rupees paid for the subahdarry sunnuds to the Mogul through the Rajah Shitab Roy.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
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Masulipatam, and Rajahmundry, in the Presidency of
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
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There, near the town of Rajahmundry, an international team of geologists has found marine fossils deposited immediately atop the largest ancient lava flow there.
Dinos Doomed by Mega-Eruption, Not Meteor? | Impact Lab
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And profits were defended by courts, so they were not subject to the larcenous whims of the local sheikh or rajah.
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Meet local people from Thetford's past, from the revolutionary philosopher Thomas Paine to the Sikh hero Maharajah Duleep Singh and from rabbit warreners to railway workers.
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Rajah Muda Hassim, being well aware of the state of things, sent, at this crisis, to order Si Tundo and his friend to his presence; which order they obeyed forthwith, and entered the balei, or audience-hall, which was full of their enemies.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
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Celebes has lately been successful, and the _campong_, where every hut was closed for a year in consequence of the local Rajah forcing his people to join in his insurrection, has at last been re-opened, though under a guard of Dutch and Malay troops.
Through the Malay Archipelago
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The Rajah asked him, To what amount he expected a jaghire to the Company?
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
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There he was the guest of a rajah, that is, a sort of king.
The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two
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When Mr. Brooke purchased the rajahship and mines of Sarawak, he agreed to compensate Muda with a life annuity of two or three hundred per annum, and give him a passage to his native city, Bruni, whenever he should feel disposed to leave Kuchin.
Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery
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Walker has parlayed a Bill Clinton appointment as Comptroller General into a lifetime career as a benefit-cut advocate, a career that not only pays well but provides enough over-the-top media flattery to embarrass a Maharajah.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Ministry of Truth: New Fronts in the War on Social Security
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Once the rajah was dressed in English sporting plaids in India, and once he was in a carriage in London dressed in his native costume, bejeweled and ‘blazing with diamonds.’
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The chauffeur, a Russian Czar from the period of Ivan the Terrible, was a fabulous guide who knew of all the kings and rajahs who had come to the area for several reasons, and brought the names of different towns and places to life.
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The empire's administrators liked their maharajahs to be foreign in attire and biddable in all things.
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The result was that one night, about midnight, when the Maharajah had retired and the rest of the palace was wrapped in slumber, the young prince collected a handful of followers, and with his brother
My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny
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We now know what we all along suspected -- the rajah is a rascal, and we have not only found out where his prahus are hidden, but have them corked up in a bottle.
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril
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He belonged to a professional family (his father was a barrister) and, as an army officer, he was aide-de-camp to a maharajah.
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The Moghuls provided darbar, maharajah, nawab, sircar, and other words, which for the sake of administration had to be coopted into the English language.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
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He states, that Mr. Hastings received for the appointment of Munny Begum to the rajahship two lacs of rupees, or about 22,000_l. _, and that he received in another gross sum one lac and a half of rupees: in all making three lac and a half, or about 36,000_l.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
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Rajahmundry mills of Carnatic paper mills, Ltd., at present; S.A. T. C.; Mason; Pythian; Episcopalian.
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
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This so-called rajah, Ramchund Rao, died without issue in 1835.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
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As far as he could ascertain, the rajah was the only man possessed of the important secret he wished to obtain, so that should the old chief lose his life Reginald would be deprived of the only clue which might lead to its elucidation.
The Young Rajah
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His grandfather was an official in a maharajah's court.
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Near Rajahmundry, about 400 cuttings are planted on a cutcha beegah
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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For generations until 1684, the maharajah of Kashmir had exclusive rights to the underfur combed from the throat and belly of this cold old goat.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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The Rajah, Syud Ashruf Allee Khan, of Mahomdee, claims a kind of suzerainty over all the district, and over this pergunnah of
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II
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There are actually two traps at Rajahmundry, each containing up to four individual pulses of lava, she said.
Dinos Doomed by Mega-Eruption, Not Meteor? | Impact Lab
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The Guardian-Mother, attended by the Blanche, had conveyed the tourists, in their voyage all over the world, to Sarawak, the capital of a rajahship on the north-western coast of the island of Borneo.
Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics