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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... plantains , and coccos ( a sort of potatoe ) , some shaddocks , and oranges , and limes , and a few pumpkins , and water - melons , half a dozen fine pine - apples , and as many musk- melons , some capsicums and bird - peppers , and two ...
... plantains , and coccos ( a sort of potatoe ) , some shaddocks , and oranges , and limes , and a few pumpkins , and water - melons , half a dozen fine pine - apples , and as many musk- melons , some capsicums and bird - peppers , and two ...
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... plantains , which they eat eagerly . All our vegetable stock , brought from Kingston , had been put into the steerage in hampers : into this place there was a door from under the companion ladder , but there was also a small hatch over ...
... plantains , which they eat eagerly . All our vegetable stock , brought from Kingston , had been put into the steerage in hampers : into this place there was a door from under the companion ladder , but there was also a small hatch over ...
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... plantains , which they had provided to eat with their salt meat : they also kept a bag here for biscuits , and supplied it at their pleasure . Our former discovery of biscuit , was nearly exhausted ; but , on finding this new store , we ...
... plantains , which they had provided to eat with their salt meat : they also kept a bag here for biscuits , and supplied it at their pleasure . Our former discovery of biscuit , was nearly exhausted ; but , on finding this new store , we ...
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... or three quarts of water for other purposes , ) then roasted a couple of plantains , and in half an hour we sat VOL . I. E down to the most comfortable repast I ever enjoyed . 1733. SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE . 49.
... or three quarts of water for other purposes , ) then roasted a couple of plantains , and in half an hour we sat VOL . I. E down to the most comfortable repast I ever enjoyed . 1733. SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE . 49.
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... plantains to roast , and so far had en- deavoured to provide a dinner for us . I was pleased with her care and industry ; " but we will eat the iguana , dear , " said I ; " it is very good . " — " I do not think I could taste it , " she ...
... plantains to roast , and so far had en- deavoured to provide a dinner for us . I was pleased with her care and industry ; " but we will eat the iguana , dear , " said I ; " it is very good . " — " I do not think I could taste it , " she ...
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