New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... body in different directions . Barentz , in his voyage in search of a north - east passage to China , had melancholy proofs of the ferocity of these animals in the island of Nova Zembla , where they attacked his men , seizing them in ...
... body in different directions . Barentz , in his voyage in search of a north - east passage to China , had melancholy proofs of the ferocity of these animals in the island of Nova Zembla , where they attacked his men , seizing them in ...
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... body . In an instant , red ants , almost as large as one's little finger , cover the unhappy man , whose body , in a few hours , becomes dreadfully swelled . These voracious insects , in swarms , intrude into every orifice , the ears ...
... body . In an instant , red ants , almost as large as one's little finger , cover the unhappy man , whose body , in a few hours , becomes dreadfully swelled . These voracious insects , in swarms , intrude into every orifice , the ears ...
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... bodies , which now and then appeared almost wholly out of the water . The animal was evidently the hippopotamus , or ... body , are short and thick ; its motion on - shore is slow and unwieldy , though in the water sufficiently active ...
... bodies , which now and then appeared almost wholly out of the water . The animal was evidently the hippopotamus , or ... body , are short and thick ; its motion on - shore is slow and unwieldy , though in the water sufficiently active ...
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taining a particular Account of the Icebergs and other Phenomena which | |
Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Henderick Portenger | 1 |
Travels of M Burckhardt in Egypt and Nubia | 1 |
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