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Stories for the household (1889)

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894, Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 471

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elsewhere. The air steamboat flies over the country whence Columbus went forth,where Cortez was born, and where Calderon sang dramas in soundingverse. Beautiful black-eyed women live still in the blooming valleys,and the oldest songs speak of the Cid and the Alhambra. Then through the air, over the… … THE SHIP OF THE AIR. Xext to Greece, to sleep a night in the grand hotel at the top of MountOlympus, to say that they have been there ; and the journey is continuedto the Bosphorus, to rest there a few hours, and see the place whereByzantium lay; and where the legend tells that the harem stood in…

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