The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 pages |
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... heard , with the general impressions which I was led to form . In a few instances , when opinions were conveyed to me which were important in themselves , but which it might be undesirable to assign to the persons from whom I heard them ...
... heard , with the general impressions which I was led to form . In a few instances , when opinions were conveyed to me which were important in themselves , but which it might be undesirable to assign to the persons from whom I heard them ...
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... heard of this before I started , and I learnt little from them which I had not known already ; but I had misgivings whether I was not wandering off after all on a fool's errand . I did not want to shoot alligators , I did not understand ...
... heard of this before I started , and I learnt little from them which I had not known already ; but I had misgivings whether I was not wandering off after all on a fool's errand . I did not want to shoot alligators , I did not understand ...
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... heard a more than muttered wish that they could be taken into part- nership ' by the Americans . They were wasting away under Free Trade and the sugar bounties . The mother country gave them fine words , but words were all . If they ...
... heard a more than muttered wish that they could be taken into part- nership ' by the Americans . They were wasting away under Free Trade and the sugar bounties . The mother country gave them fine words , but words were all . If they ...
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... heard an engineer once say , if the sea was not such a gentle creature after all . I crept up to the deck house to watch through the lee door the wild magnificence of the storm . Down came a great green wave , rushed in a flood over ...
... heard an engineer once say , if the sea was not such a gentle creature after all . I crept up to the deck house to watch through the lee door the wild magnificence of the storm . Down came a great green wave , rushed in a flood over ...
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... heard that Rodney was at St. Lucia and intended to engage him . did not even believe that the English after so many reverses would venture to meddle with a fleet superior in force and inspirited with victory . All the Antilles except St ...
... heard that Rodney was at St. Lucia and intended to engage him . did not even believe that the English after so many reverses would venture to meddle with a fleet superior in force and inspirited with victory . All the Antilles except St ...
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