The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation: Made by Sea Or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeeres, Том 10

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J. MacLehose and sons, 1904

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