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 40
... thought , while watching a Chinese laying a table underneath a paraffin lamp , after all the picturesque and impressive things that had happened during the last weeks . Yet he could not rid himself of the thought ; he watched the laying ...
... thought , while watching a Chinese laying a table underneath a paraffin lamp , after all the picturesque and impressive things that had happened during the last weeks . Yet he could not rid himself of the thought ; he watched the laying ...
Page 94
... thought about the boy . The boy had seen that the Sultan had leprosy , in the way he himself had seen it twenty ... thought of leaving the world he had built in the hands of another was unbearable . Yet , if he was quite honest , the ...
... thought about the boy . The boy had seen that the Sultan had leprosy , in the way he himself had seen it twenty ... thought of leaving the world he had built in the hands of another was unbearable . Yet , if he was quite honest , the ...
Page 141
... thought : " I'm being followed ! " sprang to his feet and rushed on , headlong into the darkness . His feet burned inside his sandy shoes , sand chafed his loins , but he ran on , flailing his arms , gasping for breath , haunted by the ...
... thought : " I'm being followed ! " sprang to his feet and rushed on , headlong into the darkness . His feet burned inside his sandy shoes , sand chafed his loins , but he ran on , flailing his arms , gasping for breath , haunted by the ...
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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