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... wooden barracks that covered our eastern coast , more especially during last war , with their double tiers of beds , low roofs , and confined volume of air . Of the soldier's life within these barracks there is much to be said , and I ...
... wooden barracks that covered our eastern coast , more especially during last war , with their double tiers of beds , low roofs , and confined volume of air . Of the soldier's life within these barracks there is much to be said , and I ...
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... wooden ones , in every barrack - yard , with an old invalid bombadier to teach the use of the rammer , and the sponge , and the match , would fill up many a vacant dreary hour , and open his mind to a most useful professional lesson ...
... wooden ones , in every barrack - yard , with an old invalid bombadier to teach the use of the rammer , and the sponge , and the match , would fill up many a vacant dreary hour , and open his mind to a most useful professional lesson ...
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... woods furnish , or the preserved harvests of his rice grounds . We are not rice eaters , and the common soldiers are everywhere imbued with prejudice against fruits and vegetables . The climate brings dysentery , and if they have tasted ...
... woods furnish , or the preserved harvests of his rice grounds . We are not rice eaters , and the common soldiers are everywhere imbued with prejudice against fruits and vegetables . The climate brings dysentery , and if they have tasted ...
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... wood so hur- riedly , that when I examined it , even the leaves had not all been stripped off ; and the hold of the other was in a state of foulness and fermentation absolutely incredible . M 162 CONTAGION OF TYPHUS FEVER AND CONTAGION ...
... wood so hur- riedly , that when I examined it , even the leaves had not all been stripped off ; and the hold of the other was in a state of foulness and fermentation absolutely incredible . M 162 CONTAGION OF TYPHUS FEVER AND CONTAGION ...
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... wood on the coast of Africa . In this way , then , may we account for particular ships of a fleet , and particular parts of these ships , being ravaged by fever , while all the rest are free ; for at the very time the Childers thus came ...
... wood on the coast of Africa . In this way , then , may we account for particular ships of a fleet , and particular parts of these ships , being ravaged by fever , while all the rest are free ; for at the very time the Childers thus came ...
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