Word: saharan
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...cause of such Saharan aridity is the chilly Humboldt Current, flowing up from the South Pacific. The Humboldt gives off moisture, of course, but onshore winds from it, striking the warm land, rise and expand, dropping none of their burden as rain...
...runs the cut and dried despatch announcing one more conquest of nature, opening up a new era for trans-Saharan travel and trade, and connecting the French of the Mediterranean with the colonies of the West Coast...
...present a clear idea of the existing situation in Tripoli in regard to the Turkish-Italian War, with its causes and effects. In addition to this fundamental topic, Mr. Furlong will give an insight into the most typical of the Barbary Capitals, the focus of the great Saharan caravan routes, with pictures illustrating the half-civilized tribes who inhabit the deserts and tablelands of Tripoli. He will also talk on the life of the Grecian sponge-divers of the Mediterranean, and will describe the dramatic incident of the burning of the United States Frigate "Philadelphia" in 1804 and his discovery...
...vacation comes. One day of rest, too, from the monotonous routine work of this season of the year, would be greeted with that same feeling of sublime relief with which the traveller of the desert is said to be imbued when he perceives the green oasis rising 'midst the Saharan sands. It has been urged in some quarters that a recess of one day would be worse than useless, and that the day would be literally wasted. This is not so, however, for in our belief, every one would do better work in the weeks which follow. O, that...