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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... continued a luckless career , and the letter book of the East India Company quaintly tells her end : We are glad you approve of ye sale of ye ANNE wch after much Cost and expence in Voyadgeing to Arracan to have made her a firme ...
... continued a luckless career , and the letter book of the East India Company quaintly tells her end : We are glad you approve of ye sale of ye ANNE wch after much Cost and expence in Voyadgeing to Arracan to have made her a firme ...
Page xxii
... continued over on to the back of the printed fly - leaf . This is signed June 19th , 1696 . In making this transcription the manuscript has been exactly followed , except that the contractions ' yt ' for ' that , ' ' ye ' for ' the ...
... continued over on to the back of the printed fly - leaf . This is signed June 19th , 1696 . In making this transcription the manuscript has been exactly followed , except that the contractions ' yt ' for ' that , ' ' ye ' for ' the ...
Page 64
... continued at it for near two years together , felling Timber , and fetching it out of the Woods , laying Foundations , hewing Stone , till they were almost killed with labour . And being wrought quite tyred , they began to accuse and ...
... continued at it for near two years together , felling Timber , and fetching it out of the Woods , laying Foundations , hewing Stone , till they were almost killed with labour . And being wrought quite tyred , they began to accuse and ...
Page 85
... continued themselves for some eight or ten days . Which the King hearing of , com- good Subjects . manded to kill no more , but that whom they took they should im- [ p . 60. ] prison , until examination passed ; which was not so much to ...
... continued themselves for some eight or ten days . Which the King hearing of , com- good Subjects . manded to kill no more , but that whom they took they should im- [ p . 60. ] prison , until examination passed ; which was not so much to ...
Page 86
... continued visible about the space of one month , and by that time it was so diminished , that it could not be seen . But there were no remarkable passages that ensued upon it . [ Part III . PART III . CHAP . I. Concerning the ...
... continued visible about the space of one month , and by that time it was so diminished , that it could not be seen . But there were no remarkable passages that ensued upon it . [ Part III . PART III . CHAP . I. Concerning the ...
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