New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... covered with bandages of glass , sprinkled with small bits of gold and silver , with which they likewise trim their turbans . The hair and eyelids of these fearless filles de joye , are blackened with khol , and their nails stained with ...
... covered with bandages of glass , sprinkled with small bits of gold and silver , with which they likewise trim their turbans . The hair and eyelids of these fearless filles de joye , are blackened with khol , and their nails stained with ...
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... covered with a light - bluish flame , through an extent of more than a mile ; it lasted several hours , and occasioned a very great consternation among the inhabitants of the neighbouring coast . When the flame ceased , a small island ...
... covered with a light - bluish flame , through an extent of more than a mile ; it lasted several hours , and occasioned a very great consternation among the inhabitants of the neighbouring coast . When the flame ceased , a small island ...
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... covered with shin- gles , painted of a slate - colour , and extending not only over the building , but also over the galleries . The houses therefore may be properly considered as pavilions ; and , being almost all situated in some ...
... covered with shin- gles , painted of a slate - colour , and extending not only over the building , but also over the galleries . The houses therefore may be properly considered as pavilions ; and , being almost all situated in some ...
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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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