New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... wood , a fire might be lighted ; we , therefore , looked out for some wood fit for our purpose . We sharpened one piece with our teeth , as well as we could , at one end , set it perpendicular upon the other , and turned it between our ...
... wood , a fire might be lighted ; we , therefore , looked out for some wood fit for our purpose . We sharpened one piece with our teeth , as well as we could , at one end , set it perpendicular upon the other , and turned it between our ...
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... wood . Oak and stink woods , though abundant and of large dimen- sions , are loose , or , as the carpenters say , shaken , in the heart . VOYAGES and TRAVELS , No. 4 , Vol . II . C Yellow wood is much superior . I have seen it and ...
... wood . Oak and stink woods , though abundant and of large dimen- sions , are loose , or , as the carpenters say , shaken , in the heart . VOYAGES and TRAVELS , No. 4 , Vol . II . C Yellow wood is much superior . I have seen it and ...
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... wood for the ship's use , we desired them to take their arms on shore . At the sight of our fire - arms , three out of the four Spaniards vanished : the fourth , who was the leader of them , I detained , assuring him that we had no ...
... wood for the ship's use , we desired them to take their arms on shore . At the sight of our fire - arms , three out of the four Spaniards vanished : the fourth , who was the leader of them , I detained , assuring him that we had no ...
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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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