The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 pages |
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... Miles 100 200 300 British Possessions underlined thus 3.Pierre Martinique JAMAICA Trinidad Margarita Port d Tortugas R.Orinoco ZUELA H A ME R 70 65 I CA BRIT GUIANA 60 COLUMBIA O Longitude West 75 from Greenwich London : Longmans & Co ...
... Miles 100 200 300 British Possessions underlined thus 3.Pierre Martinique JAMAICA Trinidad Margarita Port d Tortugas R.Orinoco ZUELA H A ME R 70 65 I CA BRIT GUIANA 60 COLUMBIA O Longitude West 75 from Greenwich London : Longmans & Co ...
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... mile or two , and off Netley gave up the chase . We went leisurely along , doing thirteen knots without effort , swept by Calshot into the Solent , and had cleared the Needles before the last daylight had left us . In a few days the ice ...
... mile or two , and off Netley gave up the chase . We went leisurely along , doing thirteen knots without effort , swept by Calshot into the Solent , and had cleared the Needles before the last daylight had left us . In a few days the ice ...
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... mile in length , which forms one side of the harbour . Of the houses , some look out to sea , some inwards upon the carenage , as the harbour is called . At the point there was a fort , ap parently of some strength , on which the ...
... mile in length , which forms one side of the harbour . Of the houses , some look out to sea , some inwards upon the carenage , as the harbour is called . At the point there was a fort , ap parently of some strength , on which the ...
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... miles inland . A good road remained as a legacy from other times , and a pair of horses and a phaeton carried us ... mile through a straggling street , where the houses were evidently occupied English interest in the Island has sunk to ...
... miles inland . A good road remained as a legacy from other times , and a pair of horses and a phaeton carried us ... mile through a straggling street , where the houses were evidently occupied English interest in the Island has sunk to ...
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... miles south of Dominica . Père Labat going once from Martinique to Guadaloupe had taken a berth with Captain Daniel , one of the most noted of the French corsairs of the day , for better security . People were not scrupulous in those ...
... miles south of Dominica . Père Labat going once from Martinique to Guadaloupe had taken a berth with Captain Daniel , one of the most noted of the French corsairs of the day , for better security . People were not scrupulous in those ...
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