The Spiral RoadNovel relating the present and past of a group of men and women, doctors and missionaries, working in the jungles of Borneo. |
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Page 281
... hour of the day , were crossing the road in droves on the way to their sawahs , their brown bodies barely visible in ... hour later , another car passed . In that half hour , sitting on the fender with his head in his hands , he had ...
... hour of the day , were crossing the road in droves on the way to their sawahs , their brown bodies barely visible in ... hour later , another car passed . In that half hour , sitting on the fender with his head in his hands , he had ...
Page 317
... hour , opened the time table of the Royal Steam Packet , found that the fortnightly steamer left Java that same night and wrote on an order form : Schutters , Theodore , by military plane to Surabaya for steamer Makassar - Malili as ...
... hour , opened the time table of the Royal Steam Packet , found that the fortnightly steamer left Java that same night and wrote on an order form : Schutters , Theodore , by military plane to Surabaya for steamer Makassar - Malili as ...
Page 394
... hour after hour , day by day , what was happening to him . At last , he slumped onto his bed with a hammering headache and burning eyes . He got up again in his half sleep to write on a piece of paper , Rubbish dump - latrine . When ...
... hour after hour , day by day , what was happening to him . At last , he slumped onto his bed with a hammering headache and burning eyes . He got up again in his half sleep to write on a piece of paper , Rubbish dump - latrine . When ...
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