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 16
... longer seemed incompre- hensible that this crowd ruled an empire the size of the United States , and the swift and noiseless obedience of the Javanese servants no longer seemed an incongruity . The way they flung one leg over the arm of ...
... longer seemed incompre- hensible that this crowd ruled an empire the size of the United States , and the swift and noiseless obedience of the Javanese servants no longer seemed an incongruity . The way they flung one leg over the arm of ...
Page 49
... longer and longer . He lay underneath his awning and let himself be carried as if on a stretcher : too cowardly , too weak to escape . " Ah - ee ... Ah - ee . . . ' 99 He tiptoed through the tulips toward death . The thread that ...
... longer and longer . He lay underneath his awning and let himself be carried as if on a stretcher : too cowardly , too weak to escape . " Ah - ee ... Ah - ee . . . ' 99 He tiptoed through the tulips toward death . The thread that ...
Page 435
... longer read what he was writing , he finished the last page with a flourish , and climbed down . At the foot of the ... longer smoked , that he could smell it : a repulsive stench of putrefaction , of sweat and filth and decom- posing ...
... longer read what he was writing , he finished the last page with a flourish , and climbed down . At the foot of the ... longer smoked , that he could smell it : a repulsive stench of putrefaction , of sweat and filth and decom- posing ...
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Annema answered arrived asked Atjeh Banjermasin Batavia beer Bert Bert's Betsy Bevers body bottle boy's breath Breszezinska-Jansen Brits-Jansen Burubi Captain coolies darkness djongos doctor door drink eyes face fear feeling fell felt Flabbinga forest Frolick Ganwitz girl hair hand head heard Holland Homo heidelbergensis hour Jansen Javanese jungle kiss knew Kramer Labuan lamp lepers leprosy letter light listening looked Madurese Mamawi mandur Manokwari morning mosquito mouth native never night once opened panting Papuans parang Piet Kramer prahu Promoted to glory pulled Rattan realized rustling Salvarsan Salvation Army Salvationist screamed seemed shoulders silence sleep slowly smell smile smoke sound staring started Stegomyia stood suddenly Sultan talk Teddy thing thought took totok tried tuan underneath voice waiting wanted Waterreus whispered wilderness Willem witch doctor Witzenburg