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...ways to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical person- age, about whom little was known, except that he was a pol- ished man of the world. People ... ...ously . He was, in short, the least com- municative of men. He talked very little, and seemed all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner. His dai... ...edingly comfortable. The habits of its occupant were such as to demand but little from the sole domestic, but Phileas Fogg required him to be almost s... ...ghty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the... ...gg, continuing to play despite the discussion. “But suppose the Hindoos or Indians pull up the rails,” replied Stuart; “suppose they stop the trains, ... ...distances were relatively moder- ate; but when he calculated upon crossing India in three days, and the United States in seven, could he rely beyond m... ... arrivals at each principal point Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and Lon- don—from ... ... hopes and wishes were now centred on Hong Kong; for the steamer’s stay at Singapore would be too brief to enable him to take any steps there. The arr... ...goon before her arrival. This was easy to do, since the steamer stopped at Singapore, whence there is a telegraphic wire to Hong Kong. He finally reso...

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...L RULE we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little fr... ...othing but derision. Nobody will expect to find between the covers of this little book words of extraordinary potency or accents of irresistible heroi... ...ozen mud. The colouring was sombre, and the most conspicuous feature was a little cafe with curtained windows and a shabby front of white woodwork, co... ...trees of the square, with all their leaves gone, were like the tracings of India ink on a sheet of tissue-paper. It was one of those London days that ... ...nd a curly wisp of it strayed across his fore- head. I had heard of him at Singapore; I had heard of him on board; I had heard of him early in the mor... ...left a ship in Samarang with a hurt back, and have been in the hospital in Singapore some weeks.” He sighed. “Trade is very bad here.” “Indeed!” “Hope...

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...has been raging so long to get drained.’ ‘The knell has been ringing for a little child there,’ added Mary; ‘scarlatina, I believe—’ ‘But, Richard,’ b... ...le, so that they had been entirely one with each other; and there had been little of formal demand either of the maiden’s affection or her father’s co... ... to her, only asserting his equality, in imitation of Harry and T om, by a little of the good-humoured raillery and teasing that treated Ethel as the ... ...that never has come. At last, in the height of that pestilential season in India, came a let- ter, warning me that my brother’s widow had got the mas-... ...ector and Harry were found deep in an argu- ment in which the lieutenant’s Indian reminiscences of the Naval Brigade were at issue with the captain’s ... ...f grace, crossed the room, and stood by the sailor, and holding up a great India-rubber ball as large as her own head, asked, ‘Uncle Harry, were you s... ...hat little brother of his that sailed with me in the Eurydice, and died at Singapore—I know how he looked to his brother Charles, and I do assure you,...

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...gar forgets It’s only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets — ‘Tss! ‘Tss! For you all love the screw-guns — the screw-g... ... like a button-stick: I’ve a mouth like an old potato, and I’m more than a little sick, But I’ve had my fun o’ the Corp’ral’s Guard: I’ve made the ci... ...n I am, Gunga Din! Kipling 28 OONT OONT OONT OONT OONTS S S S S (Northern India Transport Train) Wot makes the soldier’s ‘eart to penk, wot makes ‘im... ...ver crammed a gander in your bloomin’ ‘aversack, You will understand this little song o’ mine. But the service rules are ‘ard, an’ from such we are d... ...ore than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after the day was lost with a beggar-gi... ... the men of Gorukh. Thence the tale Comes westward o’er the peaks to India. The story of Bisesa, Armod’s child, — A maiden plighted to the Chief... ...e and the racing seas before, I raped your richest roadstead — I plundered Singapore! I set my hand on the Hoogli; as a hooded snake she rose, And I f... ...And watch my silk-clad lovers, man by maid, Laugh ‘neath my Shwe Dagon. SINGAPORE Hail, Mother! East and West must seek my aid Ere the spent gear... ...etin’s To the Lodges east an’ west, Accordin’ as commanded From Kohat to Singapore, But I wish that I might see them In my Mother-Lodge once more! ...

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... all the sea he ate with his mouth--so! Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ?Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale?s right ear, so as to be out of harm?s way. Then the Whale stood up on his tail and said, ?I?m hungry.? And the small ?Stute Fish said in a small ?stute voice, ?Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ev...

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...ll fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ‘Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale’s right ear, so as to be out of harm’s way. Then th... ...esource-and- sagacity, had taken his jack-knife and cut up the raft into a little square grating all running criss-cross, and he had tied it firm with... ...ish; and that is the rea- son why whales nowadays never eat men or boys or little girls. The small ‘Stute Fish went and hid himself in the mud under t... ...eaten, and upon the place where she had sat down, and one became the great Indian Desert, and the other became the Desert of Sahara, and you can look ... ...ked out of the mouth of the Perak river, past Selangor, past Malacca, past Singapore, out and out to the Is- land of Bingtang, as though it had been p... ..., and he pulled the whole deep Sea along, past the Island of Bintang, past Singapore, past Malacca, past Selangor, till the canoe whirled into the mou... ...argoes To Penang instead of Lagos, Or a fat Shaw-Savill bore Passengers to Singapore, Or a White Star were to try a Little trip to Sourabaya, Or a B.S... ... have taught the Queens of Egypt and Ethiopia and Abyssinia and Persia and India and China with a great and a memo- rable teaching.’ And Suleiman-bin-...

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...ed to the account of my perplexi- ties (I fear he must have been growing a little tired of them) he pointed out that there was no need to determine my... ...ll back again into the monotonous but safe stride of virtue as soon as his little excursion into the wayside quagmires had pro- duced the desired effe... ...other-in-law, who loved pink neckties and wore patent-leather boots on his little feet, and was so humble before the white husband of the lucky sister... ...f town life, had drifted out enigmatically into the sunny solitudes of the Indian Ocean. The memory of the Californian stranger was perpetuated in the... ...self. On the day when, with many misgivings, he ran away from a Dutch East-Indiaman in Samarang roads, he had commenced that study of himself, of his ... ...a stare of unexpressed thought. “You can’t find out where he gets all that india- rubber, hey Willems?” Hudig would ask at last, turn- ing away and be... ...f. Of course all Ford’s people on board. Strang- ers to me. I had to go to Singapore about the insur- ance; then I went to Macassar, of course. Had lo... ... I had my daughter to look after. I shall give you a word to Mrs. Vinck in Singapore when you go back. You shall see my Nina there. Lucky man. She is ...

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...gar forgets It’s only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets — ‘Tss! ‘Tss! For you all love the screw-guns — the screw-g... ... like a button-stick: I’ve a mouth like an old potato, and I’m more than a little sick, But I’ve had my fun o’ the Corp’ral’s Guard: I’ve made the ci... ... than I am, Gunga Din! Kipling 23 Oonts Oonts Oonts Oonts Oonts (Northern India Transport Train) Wot makes the soldier’s ‘eart to penk, wot makes ‘im... ...ver crammed a gander in your bloomin’ ‘aversack, You will understand this little song o’ mine. But the service rules are ‘ard, an’ from such we are d... ...etin’s To the Lodges east an’ west, Accordin’ as commanded From Kohat to Singapore, But I wish that I might see them In my Mother-Lodge once more! ...

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...leaves upon the white paper of a chart she is always aim- ing for that one little spot—maybe a small island in the ocean, a single headland upon the l... ...r fifty years of age when I knew him, short, stout, dignified, per- haps a little pompous, he was a man of a singularly well-informed mind, the least ... ...der. If it is per- missible to criticise the absent, I should say he had a little too much of the sense of insecurity which is so invaluable in a seam... ...s she had beaten by a day and a half the steam mail-boat from Hong Kong to Singapore. There was something pe- culiarly lucky, perhaps, in the placing ... ...een her described her to me as “nothing much to look at.” But in the great Indian famine of the seven- ties that ship, already old then, made some won... ...nd therefore a fit abode for sail- ors. A few years afterwards I met in an Indian port a 39 Joseph Conrad man who had served in the ships of the same... ...th their far-famed wine-cellars—down through the interesting group of West India Docks, the fine docks at Blackwall, on past the Galleons 97 Joseph C...

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...h mud, to support the last of the girders as those were riveted up. In the little deep water left by the drought, an overhead-crane travelled to and f... ...the thing was done. Hitchcock, his assistant, cantered along the line on a little switch-tailed Kabuli pony who through long practice could have trott... ...ning: the months of office-work destroyed at a blow when the Government of India, at the last moment, added two feet to the width of the bridge, under... ...e to another month, and borrowing ten days from Findlayson, spent his poor little savings of a year in a wild dash to London, and there, as his own to... ...Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British India boats, but wearying of routine musters and clean clothes, had thrown ... ... He’s got something on his mind. You’d think that ten years in the British India boats would have knocked most of his religion out of him.” “So it has... ...ork satisfied Mr. W ardrop. He would at the last have made shift to run to Singapore, and gone home without vengeance taken to show his engines to his... ...nd body, man, we’re one continuous breakdown, fore an’ aft! We might fetch Singapore, though.” “We’ll break down at Pygang-W atai, where we can do goo...

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... this edition largely condensed and corrected some parts, and have added a little to oth- ers, in order to render the volume more fitted for popular r... ...and were surprised at the sight of a large ruined fort and cathedral. This little town, before its harbour was filled up, was the principal place in t... ...thedral. It does not appear so rich as the smaller church, but boasts of a little organ, which sent forth singularly inharmonious cries. We presented ... ... all the many small islands, lying far from any continent, in the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans, with the exception of the Seychelles and this ... ...the floods, and in those parts alone where the stream is rapid; or, as the Indians say, “the rocks are black where the waters are white.” Here the coa... ...ave to this appearance the name of sea-sawdust. Near Keeling Atoll, in the Indian Ocean, I observed many little masses of confervae a few inches squar... ... ports being oil from the nut, and the nuts themselves, which are taken to Singapore and Mauritius, where they are chiefly used, when grated, in makin...

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...ily be (except by the evidence of a single individual, and he a half-breed Indian), I could only hope for belief among my family, and those of my frie... ...sufficient evidence of their own authenticity, and that I had consequently little to fear on the score of popular incredulity. This exposé being made,... ...here was a party at Mr. Barnard’s, and both Augustus and myself were not a little intoxicated toward the close of it. As usual, in such cases, I took ... ...hing had gone wrong, and be- came seriously alarmed. At this period I knew little about the management of a boat, and was now depending entirely upon ... ...- manager, who went by the name of Dirk Peters. This man was the son of an Indian squaw of the tribe of Upsarokas, who live among the fastnesses of th... ...was a fur-trader, I believe, or at least connected in some manner with the Indian trading-posts on Lewis river. Peter himself was one of the most fero... ... four dollars; small car- goes, however, will often bring more in Manilla, Singapore, and Batavia.” An agreement having been thus entered into, we pro...

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......................................................................... 144 LITTLE FOXES ................................................................. ...hs. The noise of the decks worried him, and he lay down, his tongue only a little pressed against his palate. An hour later he said: “Sophie, I feel s... ...man say to the railway porter about my trunk— ‘quite on the top?’” “No; ‘a little bit of all right.’ I feel farther away from any- where than I’ve eve... ...T TA A A A AGE GE GE GE GE 0 NE NIGHT, a very long time ago, I drove to an Indian military cantonment called Mian Mir to see amateur theatricals. At t... ... wan of them. How’s the dog takin’ it ?” “Like a man. He’s the best dog in India. Can’t you make Stanley take him back?” “I can do no more than I have... ... goes to the Hills? The doctor’s put him on the list.” It is the custom in India to send a certain number of inva- lids from each regiment up to stati... ...ARCHIPELAGO—Lights unreliable owing erup- tions. Lay from Cape Somerset to Singapore direct, keep- ing highest levels. 90 Actions and Reactions For t...

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...re Middle East- erners, naming three of their seat numbers. One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English.The hijackers had gained ent... ...s turned off and even primary radar contact with the aircraft was lost.The Indianapolis Air Traffic Control Center repeat- edly tried and failed to co... ...2 AM Page 14 “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 15 BOSTON NEW YORK NEW YORK CLEVELAND INDIANAPOLIS Boston Center Otis Air Force Base Langley Air Force Base Nor... ...Headquarters Continental Aerospace Command Region (CONR) Cleveland Center Indianapolis Center New Y ork Center FAA Air Traffic Control Centers Report... ...nitored only peri- odically because the information was sporadic,it was of little value,and there were other important tasks.The FAA manager of the te... ...es, fundamentalists helped artic- ulate anticolonial grievances but played little role in the overwhelmingly sec- ular struggles for independence afte... ...ation headed by Indonesian Islamists with cells scattered across Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. It also aided a Pakistani group ... ...ly, KSM’s proposals to Atef around this same time for attacks in Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Maldives were never executed, although Hambal... ...Afghanistan. By 1998, Hambali would assume responsibility for the Malaysia/Singapore region within Sungkar’s newly formed terrorist organiza- tion, th...