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... . Cuftoms of the Kamtorrians in War - Buhagari , the first Town in the Kingdom of Biri- Kindly received -- Character of the Gohawans elsewhere be written otherwife than I have fpelt them ; 6 Damberger's Travels in the Interior of Africa .
... . Cuftoms of the Kamtorrians in War - Buhagari , the first Town in the Kingdom of Biri- Kindly received -- Character of the Gohawans elsewhere be written otherwife than I have fpelt them ; 6 Damberger's Travels in the Interior of Africa .
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... Received into the King's Household ; fearing to be fold as a Šlave , efcapes . -VII . Account of the Seegerins Reflections on the Slave Trade - De- fcription of a Tiger Hunt - Country of the Sovians - Manners and Cuf- toms of the ...
... Received into the King's Household ; fearing to be fold as a Šlave , efcapes . -VII . Account of the Seegerins Reflections on the Slave Trade - De- fcription of a Tiger Hunt - Country of the Sovians - Manners and Cuf- toms of the ...
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... received , though I perceived a neceffity for profecuting my journey the next morning , as I was taken for a white flave , and a de- fire to detain me was very apparent : however , on fliding a guilder into the hand of the judge , he ...
... received , though I perceived a neceffity for profecuting my journey the next morning , as I was taken for a white flave , and a de- fire to detain me was very apparent : however , on fliding a guilder into the hand of the judge , he ...
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... received little more than 200 livres a year , which amounted in the whole to 72,000 livres a year annually . The minifter of the interior , in the 7th year , de- fired the fum of 394,133 franks , for the ufe of the Polytechnic School ...
... received little more than 200 livres a year , which amounted in the whole to 72,000 livres a year annually . The minifter of the interior , in the 7th year , de- fired the fum of 394,133 franks , for the ufe of the Polytechnic School ...
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... received confiderable augmentations from the libraries of monasteries and emigrants . This is an eafy and a very cheap me , thod of increafing a stock of books . " The manufcripts , to the number of 80,000 , are in more retired apart ...
... received confiderable augmentations from the libraries of monasteries and emigrants . This is an eafy and a very cheap me , thod of increafing a stock of books . " The manufcripts , to the number of 80,000 , are in more retired apart ...
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