An Historical Relation of Ceylon: Together with Somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkeable Passages of My Life that Hath Hapned Since My Deliverance Out of My Capitivity |
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... command of a ship under the King's Commission . The book had quick sales and Chiswell , the printer gave the author an inter - leaved copy for a second revised edition with additional matter . Detention of white men and the clamping of ...
... command of a ship under the King's Commission . The book had quick sales and Chiswell , the printer gave the author an inter - leaved copy for a second revised edition with additional matter . Detention of white men and the clamping of ...
Page xix
... command of the Bible which he had incorporated into his system , he was charitable , as was the way with the seafaring men of those days . It is , perhaps , unfortunate for our general impression of his veracity that he should have ...
... command of the Bible which he had incorporated into his system , he was charitable , as was the way with the seafaring men of those days . It is , perhaps , unfortunate for our general impression of his veracity that he should have ...
Page xxxvii
... Commands now somewhat dress'd by the help of the Printer and Graver , I a second time humbly tender to you . ' Tis I ... Command ) Robert Knox . H THE PREFACE Ow much of the present Knowledge of xxxvii The Epistle Dedicatory to The East ...
... Commands now somewhat dress'd by the help of the Printer and Graver , I a second time humbly tender to you . ' Tis I ... Command ) Robert Knox . H THE PREFACE Ow much of the present Knowledge of xxxvii The Epistle Dedicatory to The East ...
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... commands to catch Elephants , after they have found them they like , that is such as have Teeth ; for tho there be many in the Woods , yet but few have Teeth , and they males onely : unto these they drive some She - Elephants , which ...
... commands to catch Elephants , after they have found them they like , that is such as have Teeth ; for tho there be many in the Woods , yet but few have Teeth , and they males onely : unto these they drive some She - Elephants , which ...
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... command an Elephant to take they make . up water , which he does , and stands with it in his Trunk , till they command him to squirt it out at some body , which he immediately will do , it may be a whole paleful together , and with such ...
... command an Elephant to take they make . up water , which he does , and stands with it in his Trunk , till they command him to squirt it out at some body , which he immediately will do , it may be a whole paleful together , and with such ...
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