Patteson of Melanesia: A Brief Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop |
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... Pacific was Francis Drake . While worrying the Spaniards in the west , he caught his first glimpse of the Pacific from the top of a tree on the Isthmus of Panama . He was at once filled with an ambition to sail across it in an English ...
... Pacific was Francis Drake . While worrying the Spaniards in the west , he caught his first glimpse of the Pacific from the top of a tree on the Isthmus of Panama . He was at once filled with an ambition to sail across it in an English ...
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... Pacific . But nearly two centuries passed before Captain Cook , the greatest of them all , sailed from Plymouth in 1768 . He made three long voyages in the Pacific , discovered many islands , and thoroughly explored and charted many of ...
... Pacific . But nearly two centuries passed before Captain Cook , the greatest of them all , sailed from Plymouth in 1768 . He made three long voyages in the Pacific , discovered many islands , and thoroughly explored and charted many of ...
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... PACIFIC I THE romance of the Pacific has grown into a challenge that thrills the imagination and calls out the spirit of adventure . It has always appealed irresistibly to men of eager spirit , in commerce , science , and religion . It ...
... PACIFIC I THE romance of the Pacific has grown into a challenge that thrills the imagination and calls out the spirit of adventure . It has always appealed irresistibly to men of eager spirit , in commerce , science , and religion . It ...
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