A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time: Arranged in Systematic Order, Geographical and Chronological. The Whole Exhibiting a Faithful and Lively Delineation of the World. Carefully Selected from Writers of Different Nations. In Four Volumes, Bind 2Mackenzie and Dent, 1818 |
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Side 15
... Soon afterwards on looking round to complete his purchase the planter again passed that way , and not finding any one that better suited his purpose , he now hung the token of choice round the neck of the negro whom he had before ...
... Soon afterwards on looking round to complete his purchase the planter again passed that way , and not finding any one that better suited his purpose , he now hung the token of choice round the neck of the negro whom he had before ...
Side 27
... soon chased me from this wholesome station , and left me only a choice of evils -- either to extend myself upon deck exposed to burning heat , at the risk of being rolled overboard into the sea ; or again to throw myself into the deadly ...
... soon chased me from this wholesome station , and left me only a choice of evils -- either to extend myself upon deck exposed to burning heat , at the risk of being rolled overboard into the sea ; or again to throw myself into the deadly ...
Side 30
... soon to close . New vexations arose , and disappoint- ment again presented its thorns . An old sailor who had been employed to take his watch at the helm during the night , had- devoted to all - subduing Morpheus , and steered the ...
... soon to close . New vexations arose , and disappoint- ment again presented its thorns . An old sailor who had been employed to take his watch at the helm during the night , had- devoted to all - subduing Morpheus , and steered the ...
Side 34
... soon do ! And , in truth , so he might ; for it consisted only of an old mouldy copy of the sailor's Vade mecum , and the second volume of The Tattler , worm - eaten , and held together by a needleful of worsted . As I was not in humour ...
... soon do ! And , in truth , so he might ; for it consisted only of an old mouldy copy of the sailor's Vade mecum , and the second volume of The Tattler , worm - eaten , and held together by a needleful of worsted . As I was not in humour ...
Side 35
... soon became more anxious concerning their safety , than re- garding the return of the boat . Something surely must have happened . The tide and the mud appeared no longer suffi- cient to explain the delay . Still had we no means of ...
... soon became more anxious concerning their safety , than re- garding the return of the boat . Something surely must have happened . The tide and the mud appeared no longer suffi- cient to explain the delay . Still had we no means of ...
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