Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States and the Antilles ... 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 ...Macmillan and Company, 1879 - 520 páginas |
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... amongst forty sail of mer- chantmen . The harbour - master having come his usual rounds and found all right , passed on without making any observations . " At one o'clock , P.M. , just as the governor had gone to the eastward to take an ...
... amongst forty sail of mer- chantmen . The harbour - master having come his usual rounds and found all right , passed on without making any observations . " At one o'clock , P.M. , just as the governor had gone to the eastward to take an ...
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... amongst them produce a pleasing and novel effect . You see a few Coffee - trees of a fine luxuriant growth ; and nearly on the top of Saba stands the house of the post- holder . He is appointed by government to give in his report to the ...
... amongst them produce a pleasing and novel effect . You see a few Coffee - trees of a fine luxuriant growth ; and nearly on the top of Saba stands the house of the post- holder . He is appointed by government to give in his report to the ...
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... amongst the four - footed animals , this poor ill - formed creature's claim would be the last upon the lowest degree . Demerara yields to no country in the world in her won- derful and beautiful productions of the feathered race . Here ...
... amongst the four - footed animals , this poor ill - formed creature's claim would be the last upon the lowest degree . Demerara yields to no country in the world in her won- derful and beautiful productions of the feathered race . Here ...
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... amongst the deadly snakes ; for it comes nearly to the same thing in the end , whether the victim dies by poison from the fangs , which corrupts his blood and makes it stink horribly , or whether his body be crushed to mummy , and ...
... amongst the deadly snakes ; for it comes nearly to the same thing in the end , whether the victim dies by poison from the fangs , which corrupts his blood and makes it stink horribly , or whether his body be crushed to mummy , and ...
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... amongst the sedges before you . This warm and humid climate seems particularly adapted to the producing of insects ; it gives birth to myriads , beautiful past description in their variety of tints , astonish- 96 WANDERINGS IN SOUTH ...
... amongst the sedges before you . This warm and humid climate seems particularly adapted to the producing of insects ; it gives birth to myriads , beautiful past description in their variety of tints , astonish- 96 WANDERINGS IN SOUTH ...
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