New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... seemed strange , and not very consistent with our notions of the Arabs , to find them thus occupied , as scarcely any travellers , ancient or modern , have discovered and noticed in them an inclination for planting trees . Qené seemed ...
... seemed strange , and not very consistent with our notions of the Arabs , to find them thus occupied , as scarcely any travellers , ancient or modern , have discovered and noticed in them an inclination for planting trees . Qené seemed ...
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... seemed the prevailing motive for requiring my attendance . They were both , indeed , gay , lively lasses , not at all diffident , and did not by any means , like some of the others , view me as the uncaged tenant of a menagerie . During ...
... seemed the prevailing motive for requiring my attendance . They were both , indeed , gay , lively lasses , not at all diffident , and did not by any means , like some of the others , view me as the uncaged tenant of a menagerie . During ...
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... seemed about sixteen feet high , built of stone , cemented by mortar formed of the bastard coral , or madrepore , and in which were wedged many pieces of cocoa - nut shell , that seemed of no other use than as em- blems , probably , of ...
... seemed about sixteen feet high , built of stone , cemented by mortar formed of the bastard coral , or madrepore , and in which were wedged many pieces of cocoa - nut shell , that seemed of no other use than as em- blems , probably , of ...
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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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