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1 I | was a man of about forty years of age, of medium height
2 I | the young man’s earliest years, in the perils and adventures
3 I | Ferguson, then twenty-two years of age, had already made
4 III | had remained nearly two years without hinting at new explorations;
5 III | his wits about these two years past!”~Now, reader, substitute
6 VIII | made during the last forty years in Africa; and the doctor
7 VIII | her bosom for six thousand years.~But the interest of Dr.
8 IX | the lazy fellows—and the years, would you believe it—last
9 IX | longer by that.”~“Twelve years!” ejaculated the boy.~“Yes,
10 XII | Frenchman was but twenty-six years of age.”~“And France has
11 XIII | Respirable air was wanting. Some years ago, two fearless Frenchmen,
12 XV | provincial tour every thousand years, feeling the necessity of
13 XV | who had been sick for many years, implored the aid of heaven,
14 XV | afflicted him for so many years was simply perpetual drunkenness.
15 XVI | For about four thousand years she travailed, she grew
16 XVI | for the last two thousand years. But already her fertility
17 XX | more than four thousand years.”~“But then, sir, there
18 XX | has lived four thousand years, one ought to be pretty
19 XX | for the last four thousand years, I have to offer it my compliments,
20 XXII | being—a young man of thirty years or more, with long black
21 XXII | without news for the last five years!”~“Five years! alone! and
22 XXII | last five years!”~“Five years! alone! and among these
23 XXII | the Upper Nile. For two years his faith was spurned, his
24 XXII | length, during two more long years, he traversed these barbarous
25 XXIII | young fellow—scarcely thirty years of age!”~“He’ll die in our
26 XXIV | steam. It took six thousand years to invent propellers and
27 XXV | appeared to have been dry for years. They dug down into a parched
28 XXXVIII| Oh, by all means!—Five years later, it was Major Laing’
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