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" Obba, there is a rocke which naturally (beeing somewhat helped by imagination) may seeme to beare the shape of a ragged woman with a child in her armes (as the rock by the North Cape the shape of a frier), where the Obdorian Samoites use much to resort... "
Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the ... - Page 576
by Samuel Purchas - 1906
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Voyages and travels - 1856 - 550 pages
...the sea side, neare to the mouth of the great river Obba, there is a rocke which naturally (beeing somewhat helped by imagination) may seeme to beare...of a ragged woman with a child in her armes (as the rock by the North Cape the shape of a frier), where the Obdorian Samoites use much to resort by reason...
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The Polar Regions

Sir John Richardson - Antarctica - 1861 - 438 pages
...which I have read in some rnappes of these countries, I found it to be but a verye fable. Onlie near to the mouth of the great river Obba there is a rocke which, being somewhat helped by the imagination, may seeme to beare the shape of a ragged woman with a childe...
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the ..., Issue 3

Richard Hakluyt - Discoveries in geography - 1903 - 534 pages
...of things, I found it to be a very fable. Onely in the Province of Obdoria upon the sea side, neare to the mouth of the great river Obba, there is a rocke,...woman, with a child in her armes (as the rocke by the 1588. North Cape the shape of a Frier) where the Obdorian Samoites use much to resort, by reason of...
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of ..., Volume 3

Richard Hakluyt - Discoveries in geography - 1903 - 536 pages
...of things, I found it to be a very fable. Onely in the Province of Obdoria upon the sea side, neare to the mouth of the great river Obba, there is a rocke,...beare the shape of a ragged woman, with a child in her urines (as the rocke by the Samoites use much to resort, by reason of the commoditie North Cape the...
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Kansatieteellisiä tutkielmia Kaarle Krohnille hänen 50-vuotispäivänsä ...

Finno-Ugrian philology - 1914 - 348 pages
...the sea side, neare to the month of the great river Obba, there is a rocke, which naturally (beeing somewhat helped by imagination), may seeme to beare...of a ragged woman with a child in her armes (as the rock by the North Cape the shape of a frier), when; the Obdorian Samoites use much to resort by reason...
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