New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... nature of the coast , has been preserved from the Madegasse invasions . About sixty years ago it was usually visited by English shipping , in the manner Johanna now is , but possessing no safe anchorage , became deserted for the latter ...
... nature of the coast , has been preserved from the Madegasse invasions . About sixty years ago it was usually visited by English shipping , in the manner Johanna now is , but possessing no safe anchorage , became deserted for the latter ...
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... nature . It may , however , be doubted whether any humane or conciliatory means have been taken to render their manners otherwise . The whites finding them averse to become slaves , thought it of little importance to instruct their ...
... nature . It may , however , be doubted whether any humane or conciliatory means have been taken to render their manners otherwise . The whites finding them averse to become slaves , thought it of little importance to instruct their ...
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... nature , which , in her changes , generally preserves a certain gradation , should here make so sudden an alteration . It is but natural to suppose , that the lofty mountains which occupy this tract are all of the same qualities ; but ...
... nature , which , in her changes , generally preserves a certain gradation , should here make so sudden an alteration . It is but natural to suppose , that the lofty mountains which occupy this tract are all of the same qualities ; but ...
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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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