The chatterbox book of soldiers and sailors (1910)
Robinson, Anna, Weir, Harrison · Boston, D. Estes · leaf 156
-m^^Mm CROSSING THE TIGRIS 1 \ID you ever see so strange a ferry-boat as^—^ this ? Like a great box which looks asif it were sinking. And yet far away, where theriver Tigris rolls through yellow sands, this isthe kind of a ferry-boat used to-day, as it hasbeen for many hundreds of years. In the… … DARIUS THE KING AT 7^HEN Cyrus, the good King of Persia,died, his son Cambyses succeeded him.But when Cambyses cHed he left no sons, andDarius, the son of Hystaspes, conquered thethrone of Persia. He was a mighty king, makingeven more powerful the empire which Cyrushad established. But he was an…
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