American Biography, Том 1Harper, 1855 |
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... winds . This regular course and changing of the monsoons was familiarly known to the navigators of Solomon's ships , and was the cause of their spending three years in the voyage to and from Ophir . " In going and returning they changed ...
... winds . This regular course and changing of the monsoons was familiarly known to the navigators of Solomon's ships , and was the cause of their spending three years in the voyage to and from Ophir . " In going and returning they changed ...
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... wind , " which begins not far to the southward of the straits , and blows nine months of the year on the coast of Morocco . " In this case it would be next to impossible for those who had met with any considerable damage in their masts ...
... wind , " which begins not far to the southward of the straits , and blows nine months of the year on the coast of Morocco . " In this case it would be next to impossible for those who had met with any considerable damage in their masts ...
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... wind . * Another fact is taken from Gumilla , † who says , " In December , 1731 , while I was at the town of St. Joseph , in the Island of Trin- idad , a small vessel of Teneriffe , with six seamen , was driven into that island by ...
... wind . * Another fact is taken from Gumilla , † who says , " In December , 1731 , while I was at the town of St. Joseph , in the Island of Trin- idad , a small vessel of Teneriffe , with six seamen , was driven into that island by ...
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... der of some other wreck , carried thither by the wind and current from our parts . " * Chapter xlvii . , in Churchill's Collections , vol . ii . The improbability of the Indians having carried " the body E 2 PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION . 53.
... der of some other wreck , carried thither by the wind and current from our parts . " * Chapter xlvii . , in Churchill's Collections , vol . ii . The improbability of the Indians having carried " the body E 2 PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION . 53.
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... wind . Nor will Herrera's conjecture , that the stern- post of the admiral's ship was carried thither by a tempest , be readily admitted by any who are acquainted with the navigation of the West Indies ; for it must have passed through ...
... wind . Nor will Herrera's conjecture , that the stern- post of the admiral's ship was carried thither by a tempest , be readily admitted by any who are acquainted with the navigation of the West Indies ; for it must have passed through ...
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