Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen5Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1831 |
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... means the least alluring . The ship- wreck of Robert Drury , at the age of sixteen , in the Degrave East Indiaman , on the southern coast of the island of Madagascar , in the year 1702 , supplied a remarkable opportunity for one of ...
... means the least alluring . The ship- wreck of Robert Drury , at the age of sixteen , in the Degrave East Indiaman , on the southern coast of the island of Madagascar , in the year 1702 , supplied a remarkable opportunity for one of ...
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... means to keep her up till we could get on shore . Having lost our long - boat and pinnace at Ben- gal , we had but one small boat left , for which reason we made a raft with some planks and yards . At that time some of the natives were ...
... means to keep her up till we could get on shore . Having lost our long - boat and pinnace at Ben- gal , we had but one small boat left , for which reason we made a raft with some planks and yards . At that time some of the natives were ...
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... mean villages , consisting of about eight or ten houses , or rather huts , for they were not above six or seven feet high , and about eight or nine feet in length , and their doors not above three or four feet high ; our people crept ...
... mean villages , consisting of about eight or ten houses , or rather huts , for they were not above six or seven feet high , and about eight or nine feet in length , and their doors not above three or four feet high ; our people crept ...
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... mean time he should be obliged to distribute us among his sons , who lived at distant towns , not only for the convenience of providing for such a number of us , ( there not being room enough in this town , ) but to ease himself of a ...
... mean time he should be obliged to distribute us among his sons , who lived at distant towns , not only for the convenience of providing for such a number of us , ( there not being room enough in this town , ) but to ease himself of a ...
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... means to make their own terms with the natives . Now Cap- tain Drummond and some others were men of experi- ence and undaunted resolution ; our captain , indeed , had courage enough , but he was too young . However , the proposition was ...
... means to make their own terms with the natives . Now Cap- tain Drummond and some others were men of experi- ence and undaunted resolution ; our captain , indeed , had courage enough , but he was too young . However , the proposition was ...
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