Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volume 5Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1831 - Autobiographies |
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... miles , and in sight of the place . But how soon does Providence disappoint us , and interrupt our designs ! What an adverse fate directed , and accompanied this unhappy ship , and all who were concerned in it , though so near the ...
... miles , and in sight of the place . But how soon does Providence disappoint us , and interrupt our designs ! What an adverse fate directed , and accompanied this unhappy ship , and all who were concerned in it , though so near the ...
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... miles up or down the river for our diversion ; and when we came on shore , the Gentees , or Moors , would lend us clothes to put on while we stayed ; thus we used to sit and regale ourselves for a few hours with arrack punch , and a ...
... miles up or down the river for our diversion ; and when we came on shore , the Gentees , or Moors , would lend us clothes to put on while we stayed ; thus we used to sit and regale ourselves for a few hours with arrack punch , and a ...
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... ; to which they all unanimously agreed , and cried out , “ Anything to save our lives . " Now here was a sand which ran along for two leagues ; we came within a quarter of a mile of the shore , and let go an anchor ROBERT DRURY . 19.
... ; to which they all unanimously agreed , and cried out , “ Anything to save our lives . " Now here was a sand which ran along for two leagues ; we came within a quarter of a mile of the shore , and let go an anchor ROBERT DRURY . 19.
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... drive nearer the land , where she soon beat to pieces . The captain got on shore with his father's heart in his hand , which , according to his request , when dying , was put 20 THE ADVENTURES OF mile of the shore, and let go an anchor ...
... drive nearer the land , where she soon beat to pieces . The captain got on shore with his father's heart in his hand , which , according to his request , when dying , was put 20 THE ADVENTURES OF mile of the shore, and let go an anchor ...
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... miles from us , but the idea we had entertained of their being such a barbarous people , prevented our going thither ; but this debate was soon put an end to by the deaan ( or as our English sailors call him king ) of that part of the ...
... miles from us , but the idea we had entertained of their being such a barbarous people , prevented our going thither ; but this debate was soon put an end to by the deaan ( or as our English sailors call him king ) of that part of the ...
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