New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... river ; a river once embellished with all the pomp of imperial state , with temples , gardens , and even the floating houses of its ancient masters which it supported . What are become of those gilded vessels , those purple sails , that ...
... river ; a river once embellished with all the pomp of imperial state , with temples , gardens , and even the floating houses of its ancient masters which it supported . What are become of those gilded vessels , those purple sails , that ...
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... river ; our life , however , was very laborious . From the natives we learned that we could not cross the river at high - water , it being then too deep to ford ; so one of us ( as we took it by turns , ) went early in the morn- ing ...
... river ; our life , however , was very laborious . From the natives we learned that we could not cross the river at high - water , it being then too deep to ford ; so one of us ( as we took it by turns , ) went early in the morn- ing ...
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... river we saw , was the Suramac , and that the land we first made was Su- rinam . We had run about forty miles to leeward of it . This was no pleasing intelligence ; for we were to be at Surinam by the 9th instant , or we should be in ...
... river we saw , was the Suramac , and that the land we first made was Su- rinam . We had run about forty miles to leeward of it . This was no pleasing intelligence ; for we were to be at Surinam by the 9th instant , or we should be in ...
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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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