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Of that suit of armor I should like to say a word:
it was found by Surgeon Steyer, of the army, enclosing the bones of a man, in the arid country
there are the best of reasons for believing that he was the first white man to enter the fertile valley
the mescal was to the aborigines of that region much what the palm is to the nomads of Syria.
its juice could be fermented into an alcoholic drink
CHAPTER II