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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... ground , in the intremm the maid came to fetch in my brother , & tooke him up in her armes , he being then aboute 2 or 3 years old & the gun longe & heavie that I could not well hold it up , it went of & hit my brother right in his left ...
... ground , in the intremm the maid came to fetch in my brother , & tooke him up in her armes , he being then aboute 2 or 3 years old & the gun longe & heavie that I could not well hold it up , it went of & hit my brother right in his left ...
Page xxxii
... ground in the intremm the maid came to fetch in my brother , & tooke him up in her armes he being then aboute 2 or 3 years old & the gun longe & heavie that I could not hold it up it went of & hit my brother right in his left eye . He ...
... ground in the intremm the maid came to fetch in my brother , & tooke him up in her armes he being then aboute 2 or 3 years old & the gun longe & heavie that I could not hold it up it went of & hit my brother right in his left eye . He ...
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... grounds . And at the same time on the East side is very fair and dry weather , and the time of their Harvest . On the ... ground , being , as the manner there is , barefoot . It rains far more in the High - Lands of Conde Uda , then in ...
... grounds . And at the same time on the East side is very fair and dry weather , and the time of their Harvest . On the ... ground , being , as the manner there is , barefoot . It rains far more in the High - Lands of Conde Uda , then in ...
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... ground . The Palace here is quite ruined ; the Pagodas onely remain in good repair . This City stands in the Kingdom or Province of Ouvah , which is The Province a Countrey well watered , the Land not smooth , neither the Hills of Ouvah ...
... ground . The Palace here is quite ruined ; the Pagodas onely remain in good repair . This City stands in the Kingdom or Province of Ouvah , which is The Province a Countrey well watered , the Land not smooth , neither the Hills of Ouvah ...
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... Grounds , and in making Conveyances of Water from their Rivers and Ponds into their Lands , which they are very ingenious in ; also in levelling their Corn Lands , which must be as smooth as a Bowling - Green , that the Water may cover ...
... Grounds , and in making Conveyances of Water from their Rivers and Ponds into their Lands , which they are very ingenious in ; also in levelling their Corn Lands , which must be as smooth as a Bowling - Green , that the Water may cover ...
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