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... officers make no difficulties , and the luggage is soon in a boat having a covered cabin aft large enough for half a dozen passengers , and lighted by a lamp which its Parsee owner keeps religiously burning there . In fifteen minutes we ...
... officers make no difficulties , and the luggage is soon in a boat having a covered cabin aft large enough for half a dozen passengers , and lighted by a lamp which its Parsee owner keeps religiously burning there . In fifteen minutes we ...
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... officer in the arms of Victory , and beneath , a dismantled French man - of - war , lying alongside a smaller British ... officers , and by his crew , he achieved a most brilliant conquest , but fell with glory in the last and critical ...
... officer in the arms of Victory , and beneath , a dismantled French man - of - war , lying alongside a smaller British ... officers , and by his crew , he achieved a most brilliant conquest , but fell with glory in the last and critical ...
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... officer who had been killed by a bison on the hills , of many children , and of still more missionaries and their wives . All the older graves had become black like the Hindoo temples . Women at their huts were washing the corridors ...
... officer who had been killed by a bison on the hills , of many children , and of still more missionaries and their wives . All the older graves had become black like the Hindoo temples . Women at their huts were washing the corridors ...
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... officer in command relented , and happily this inter- esting pile has no trace of our sad levelling principles . " The church cannot lay claim to any great architectural merit . It has a tall gable towards the west , with arched windows ...
... officer in command relented , and happily this inter- esting pile has no trace of our sad levelling principles . " The church cannot lay claim to any great architectural merit . It has a tall gable towards the west , with arched windows ...
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... Officer of the Coast of Malabar , Canada and Vingorla . Died 25th December , in the evening , between 10 and 11 o'clock , being aged forty - one years , seven months and twenty days . Anno 1693. ' " And this appears to be the most ...
... Officer of the Coast of Malabar , Canada and Vingorla . Died 25th December , in the evening , between 10 and 11 o'clock , being aged forty - one years , seven months and twenty days . Anno 1693. ' " And this appears to be the most ...
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Letters from India and Kashmir: Written 1870; Illustrated and Annotated 1873 J. Duguid No preview available - 2019 |
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