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... hands they may have fallen , will be a primary object of our attention . The paucity of materials , and the extreme difficulty of procuring such as relate to the first settlement and colonial transactions of this State , can be fully ...
... hands they may have fallen , will be a primary object of our attention . The paucity of materials , and the extreme difficulty of procuring such as relate to the first settlement and colonial transactions of this State , can be fully ...
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... hand , Ramusio very positively asserts , that when Verrazzano landed , he and the people who went ashore with him , were cut to pieces and devoured by the savages , in the sight of the rest of the crew , who had remained on board the ...
... hand , Ramusio very positively asserts , that when Verrazzano landed , he and the people who went ashore with him , were cut to pieces and devoured by the savages , in the sight of the rest of the crew , who had remained on board the ...
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... hands , to explore what appeared to be the mouth of a river , at the distance of about four leagues from the ship . This was , no doubt , the strait between Long and Staten islands , gene- rally called the Narrows . Here the writer of ...
... hands , to explore what appeared to be the mouth of a river , at the distance of about four leagues from the ship . This was , no doubt , the strait between Long and Staten islands , gene- rally called the Narrows . Here the writer of ...
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... hands , ( the mate , who had the command of the expedition , being one , ) to explore , and sound the river higher up . The boat proceeded eight or nine leagues beyond where the ship lay at anchor ; but finding the soundings extremely ...
... hands , ( the mate , who had the command of the expedition , being one , ) to explore , and sound the river higher up . The boat proceeded eight or nine leagues beyond where the ship lay at anchor ; but finding the soundings extremely ...
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... hands of savages , Hud- son fell a sacrifice to the more than savage cruelty of his own countrymen and companions . The next year after his departure from our harbour , he under- took a fourth voyage , still in quest of a passage to ...
... hands of savages , Hud- son fell a sacrifice to the more than savage cruelty of his own countrymen and companions . The next year after his departure from our harbour , he under- took a fourth voyage , still in quest of a passage to ...
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