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... usually seen . § 2. To know when water is near at hand . - Vegetation is a deceitful guide , unless it be luxuriant , or when such trees are seen , as are observed usually to grow near water 2 § 2. TO KNOW WHEN WATER IS NEAR AT HAND .
... usually seen . § 2. To know when water is near at hand . - Vegetation is a deceitful guide , unless it be luxuriant , or when such trees are seen , as are observed usually to grow near water 2 § 2. TO KNOW WHEN WATER IS NEAR AT HAND .
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... usually drink , and hence it often happens that the exhausted traveller , abandoning all hope as the shades of evening close in , has his attention arrested by flights of birds that give him new life , and tell him where to go . In ...
... usually drink , and hence it often happens that the exhausted traveller , abandoning all hope as the shades of evening close in , has his attention arrested by flights of birds that give him new life , and tell him where to go . In ...
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... usually arrange them with that intention . A clump of trees yields wonderful shelter . The Swedes have a proverb that " the forest is the poor man's jacket . " In the cruel climate of Thibet , Dr. Hooker tells us that it is the habit to ...
... usually arrange them with that intention . A clump of trees yields wonderful shelter . The Swedes have a proverb that " the forest is the poor man's jacket . " In the cruel climate of Thibet , Dr. Hooker tells us that it is the habit to ...
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... usually pass frosty nights on the moor - side . They cut quantities of heather , and strew part of it as a bed on the ground , then all the party lie 28 § 3. DIFFERENT WAYS OF BIVOUACKING . Different ways of Bivouacking •
... usually pass frosty nights on the moor - side . They cut quantities of heather , and strew part of it as a bed on the ground , then all the party lie 28 § 3. DIFFERENT WAYS OF BIVOUACKING . Different ways of Bivouacking •
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... usually employed , and is , to all intents and purposes , waterproof . Silk , of equal strength with the canvass , is very far lighter ; its only fault is its expense . Calico is very generally used for the smaller kind of tents ...
... usually employed , and is , to all intents and purposes , waterproof . Silk , of equal strength with the canvass , is very far lighter ; its only fault is its expense . Calico is very generally used for the smaller kind of tents ...
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