Sir Edward Seward's Narrative of His Shipwreck: And Consequent Discovery of Certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a Detail of Many Extraordinary and Highly Interesting Events in His Life, from the Year 1733 to 1749, as Written in His Own Diary, Bind 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831 |
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... employ a proc- tor to procure a licence . My uncle , on seeing me , and learning the cause of my being back so soon , was rather testy about loss of time ; it being of great importance to get the brig off , as the month of October was ...
... employ a proc- tor to procure a licence . My uncle , on seeing me , and learning the cause of my being back so soon , was rather testy about loss of time ; it being of great importance to get the brig off , as the month of October was ...
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... employed , my wife had taken the dead fowls from the coops , and broken some biscuit in small pieces , with which she fed the re- maining live ones . " We can eat one of the drowned fowls , " observed I ; " it will be a good - dinner ...
... employed , my wife had taken the dead fowls from the coops , and broken some biscuit in small pieces , with which she fed the re- maining live ones . " We can eat one of the drowned fowls , " observed I ; " it will be a good - dinner ...
Side 51
... employed ; even limpy had not lost her appetite , from the fracture . One of the water - melons , that had been bruised , was set aside for our refreshment , which we found cool and pleasant ; but we only indulged in part of it , and ...
... employed ; even limpy had not lost her appetite , from the fracture . One of the water - melons , that had been bruised , was set aside for our refreshment , which we found cool and pleasant ; but we only indulged in part of it , and ...
Side 72
... employed , it struck me , that , having plenty of them , it would be as well , and better , to construct the tent of planks en- tirely , rather than to erect uprights , and cover them with the ship's awning ; which I had first intended ...
... employed , it struck me , that , having plenty of them , it would be as well , and better , to construct the tent of planks en- tirely , rather than to erect uprights , and cover them with the ship's awning ; which I had first intended ...
Side 74
... employed herself in getting up the shaddocks , and oranges , and limes , and pine - apples , with the vegetable roots , to air upon deck : they were yet all in good preservation , excepting one pine - apple , which was beginning to ...
... employed herself in getting up the shaddocks , and oranges , and limes , and pine - apples , with the vegetable roots , to air upon deck : they were yet all in good preservation , excepting one pine - apple , which was beginning to ...
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