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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... labour - CHAP . V. - Page 56 Various arrangements on board the vessel . Their exultation on seating themselves in their wooden palace on shore . He occupies himself in providing for the future . A sudden tempest - their conduct - - on ...
... labour - CHAP . V. - Page 56 Various arrangements on board the vessel . Their exultation on seating themselves in their wooden palace on shore . He occupies himself in providing for the future . A sudden tempest - their conduct - - on ...
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... labour , we were suffi- ciently fatigued to remain quietly on deck until it was time to go to rest . The eventide is delightful in tropical climates : we sat on one of the hen - coops , until the stars appeared , enjoying the cool ...
... labour , we were suffi- ciently fatigued to remain quietly on deck until it was time to go to rest . The eventide is delightful in tropical climates : we sat on one of the hen - coops , until the stars appeared , enjoying the cool ...
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... labour before me . In the afternoon I went down into the hold ; and , having cleared away a considerable quantity of the lumber , I was enabled to discover what I wanted , and got at the water- casks ; which , as Eliza suggested , were ...
... labour before me . In the afternoon I went down into the hold ; and , having cleared away a considerable quantity of the lumber , I was enabled to discover what I wanted , and got at the water- casks ; which , as Eliza suggested , were ...
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... I set to my carrying labour again . My anxious wife wanted to assist me ; but I told her , that was far beyond the power of her tender frame ; and desired her to go and sit under 72 JAN . SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE .
... I set to my carrying labour again . My anxious wife wanted to assist me ; but I told her , that was far beyond the power of her tender frame ; and desired her to go and sit under 72 JAN . SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE .
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... labour of four hours every day for a week . I have found some difficulty in de- scribing this wooden palace , for such it was to us ; and , to avoid greater obscurity in the picture , I have departed from my diary way of writing , as ...
... labour of four hours every day for a week . I have found some difficulty in de- scribing this wooden palace , for such it was to us ; and , to avoid greater obscurity in the picture , I have departed from my diary way of writing , as ...
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