Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1G. Bell and Sons, 1882 |
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... coming home again from the banks of Newfoundland , we were taken by an Algerine rover , or man of war : which , if my account stands right , was about the year 1695 , for you may be sure I kept no journal . I was not much concerned at ...
... coming home again from the banks of Newfoundland , we were taken by an Algerine rover , or man of war : which , if my account stands right , was about the year 1695 , for you may be sure I kept no journal . I was not much concerned at ...
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... coming into the island , we were terrified exceedingly with the sight of the barbarous people ; whose figure was made more terrible to us than really it was , by the report we had of them from the seamen ; but when we came to converse ...
... coming into the island , we were terrified exceedingly with the sight of the barbarous people ; whose figure was made more terrible to us than really it was , by the report we had of them from the seamen ; but when we came to converse ...
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... coming often on shore , the men brought us several refresh- ments , and the natives believing we only belonged to the ship , were civil enough . We lived in a kind of a tent on the shore , or rather a hut , which we made with the boughs ...
... coming often on shore , the men brought us several refresh- ments , and the natives believing we only belonged to the ship , were civil enough . We lived in a kind of a tent on the shore , or rather a hut , which we made with the boughs ...
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... coming of the rest , though at first we were frightened , and thought they came to fetch us back to hang us ; but they took ways quickly to satisfy us that they were in the same condition with us , only with this additional circumstance ...
... coming of the rest , though at first we were frightened , and thought they came to fetch us back to hang us ; but they took ways quickly to satisfy us that they were in the same condition with us , only with this additional circumstance ...
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... coming again to live there ; and I used to say to them very often , that , if I had but a ship of twenty guns , and a sloop , and both well manned , I would not desire a better place in the world to make myself as rich as a king . But ...
... coming again to live there ; and I used to say to them very often , that , if I had but a ship of twenty guns , and a sloop , and both well manned , I would not desire a better place in the world to make myself as rich as a king . But ...
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