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The place where the travellers had reached the shore was far from where the food supplies were stored.
At times, then, the identities that were created for the elderly couple as travellers were self-initiated.
Each contribution in its own way exposes these unintended efforts on behalf of the travellers.
The travellers approach through a dawn landscape filled with bird-song, sights of towering mountains, and the sound of people working in the rice fields.
It is not unlike a traveller's encounter with a new place.
Historians have concentrated on the latter - official and government reports, chronicles and travellers' tales and, in the late nineteenth century, ethnographic studies.
Hunters and travellers passing through, but seldom remaining long in the districts, very naturally associated such species with the fly.
European travellers may have been familiar with the commonplace analogy of the king as father of the realm with the subjects as his children.
In the office, immigration agents recorded the passage of travellers not known to be permanent residents of the adjoining villages.
The perception of the traveller is that one keeps hearing small differences, so that pronunciation difference is a simple, linear function of geography (distance).
The treatment is descriptive, and all is painstakingly documented, even to the point of careful notation of discrepancies between published and draft journals of travellers.
The potential inflation of geographical spread due to lack of differentiation between business and leisure travellers is of concern.
The language barrier represented another pressure, since the traveller could be the victim of interpreters or informers.
Indeed, musicians have always been travellers: from troubadours to today's rock stars, musicians travel the world.
As such, story telling is about themes aimed at legitimising the entire enterprise of the traveller-scientist.
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