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... whole we repeat that Mr. Minturn's volume is the best introduction to India with which we are ac- TABLET . quainted . " London : LONGMAN , BRO 61 MR . MINTURN has written a book which ought to find great favour with Englishmen . He ...
... whole we repeat that Mr. Minturn's volume is the best introduction to India with which we are ac- TABLET . quainted . " London : LONGMAN , BRO 61 MR . MINTURN has written a book which ought to find great favour with Englishmen . He ...
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... whole vessel , and the bowsprit was entirely inboard . The other strange boat which attracted my attention was a craft , perhaps 120 feet long , with 20 feet beam , looking like an overgrown Malay sampan , and pulling 50 or 80 oars ...
... whole vessel , and the bowsprit was entirely inboard . The other strange boat which attracted my attention was a craft , perhaps 120 feet long , with 20 feet beam , looking like an overgrown Malay sampan , and pulling 50 or 80 oars ...
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... whole town stands upon a level of no very great extent , which stretches along the base of gently swelling hills , on the top of the highest of which stands Government House , tenanted by the present Sir Samuel Bonham - then governor of ...
... whole town stands upon a level of no very great extent , which stretches along the base of gently swelling hills , on the top of the highest of which stands Government House , tenanted by the present Sir Samuel Bonham - then governor of ...
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... whole stock of English : " Ah ! you d - d poul ! come along- side ! " Poul , or fool , being supposed to be something with which the white men emphatically cursed their enemies . Amused beyond measure , though somewhat dif- ferently to ...
... whole stock of English : " Ah ! you d - d poul ! come along- side ! " Poul , or fool , being supposed to be something with which the white men emphatically cursed their enemies . Amused beyond measure , though somewhat dif- ferently to ...
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... the husks they had brought with them , forming the whole into articles resembling torches ; a fire was then kindled upon the beach , fragments of the burn- ARRANGEMENTS FOR ROBBING THE HIVES . 55 ing embers introduced.
... the husks they had brought with them , forming the whole into articles resembling torches ; a fire was then kindled upon the beach , fragments of the burn- ARRANGEMENTS FOR ROBBING THE HIVES . 55 ing embers introduced.
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