Great Shipwrecks and Castaways: Authentic Accounts of Adventures at SeaCharles Neider |
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... forced us to run northeast , and northeast by east . The three following days the weather continued still more tempestuous and the wind shifted so often that we were continually hoisting and lowering our sails . By this time the ...
... forced us to run northeast , and northeast by east . The three following days the weather continued still more tempestuous and the wind shifted so often that we were continually hoisting and lowering our sails . By this time the ...
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... forced to send us to a great fort , to be kept there as long as the ambassador was in the country . This fort is about six or seven leagues from Sior , on a mountain they call Numma Sansiang . ' Tis three hours work to get up to it ...
... forced to send us to a great fort , to be kept there as long as the ambassador was in the country . This fort is about six or seven leagues from Sior , on a mountain they call Numma Sansiang . ' Tis three hours work to get up to it ...
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... forced to make water in my scoop and drank my urine , thinking it wholesomer than salt water . I was so extremely thirsty that my lips stuck together . On the 22nd I took a walk ( after having offered up my sacrifice of prayer ) on the ...
... forced to make water in my scoop and drank my urine , thinking it wholesomer than salt water . I was so extremely thirsty that my lips stuck together . On the 22nd I took a walk ( after having offered up my sacrifice of prayer ) on the ...
Contents
THE ADVENTURES OF PETER SERRANO 96 | 5 |
THE TRUE RELATION OF PETER CARDER | 6 |
BY RICHARD CLARKE OF WEYMOUTH | 15 |
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