They would build a canal to carry them past the turn in the river, past the Confederate cannon.

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He wanted to go all the way to the Ganges River, but his army forced him to turn back.

他还想继续向恒河进军，但是他的军队迫使他返回波斯。

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The Confederates had placed cannon all along the sharp turn in the river.

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Tree branches bending down to the water hide the turn of the river on both sides, and what you see is a lake with wooded hills, a few little houses on the far shore, a pier with a tiny man fishing.

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"We all admire the beaver for the way it can turn a linear river into a lake with a dam, but the termites turning the desert into a pattern of oases that allow permanent life even in drought periods for hundreds of years - that's much more fascinating, " he told BBC News.

BBC: Termites 'engineer fairy circles'

When you turn into the Sekonyer River, closer towards Camp Leakey, the river becomes narrow and you will get a great view of the male monkey's enormous snout - which is so big they have to move them out of the way to eat.

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