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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... fish . They explore the isthmus to its northern extremity . - Resumes his labour - CHAP . V. - Page 56 Various arrangements on board the vessel . Their exultation on seating themselves in their wooden palace on shore . He occupies ...
... fish . They explore the isthmus to its northern extremity . - Resumes his labour - CHAP . V. - Page 56 Various arrangements on board the vessel . Their exultation on seating themselves in their wooden palace on shore . He occupies ...
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... fish - pot . - Another trial to reach the top of the promontory . Takes a strange ani- mal .. Some welcome domestic news . They catch mullet by torch - light.- Sand - flies . - Armadillo tamed . Fine shells . Rod - fishing by Eliza and ...
... fish - pot . - Another trial to reach the top of the promontory . Takes a strange ani- mal .. Some welcome domestic news . They catch mullet by torch - light.- Sand - flies . - Armadillo tamed . Fine shells . Rod - fishing by Eliza and ...
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... fishing and shooting , in their seasons , by way of amusement and recreation . At the expir- ation of this time , my paternal uncle sent for me to Bristol , and placed me in his counting - house . Within a year from this event , I lost ...
... fishing and shooting , in their seasons , by way of amusement and recreation . At the expir- ation of this time , my paternal uncle sent for me to Bristol , and placed me in his counting - house . Within a year from this event , I lost ...
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... fish , and turtle , as their only re- source for fresh provisions . This was a sad pros- pect . " No wonder , " said I , " that my cousin Tom desires to return to England . " I must con- fess , the account from Mr. Dickinson ...
... fish , and turtle , as their only re- source for fresh provisions . This was a sad pros- pect . " No wonder , " said I , " that my cousin Tom desires to return to England . " I must con- fess , the account from Mr. Dickinson ...
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... fish all round the point . Some appeared so near us , I could see they were mullet , such as we had eaten in Jamaica at Mr. Dickinson's table , who then told us a curious fact , that these fish are often enticed to spring into the ...
... fish all round the point . Some appeared so near us , I could see they were mullet , such as we had eaten in Jamaica at Mr. Dickinson's table , who then told us a curious fact , that these fish are often enticed to spring into the ...
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