The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 páginas |
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... persons from whom I heard them , I have altered initials and dis- guised localities and circumstances . The illustrations are from sketches of my own , which , except so far as they are tolerably like the scenes which they represent ...
... persons from whom I heard them , I have altered initials and dis- guised localities and circumstances . The illustrations are from sketches of my own , which , except so far as they are tolerably like the scenes which they represent ...
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... person like myself , to whom the preservation of the British Empire appeared to be the only public cause in which just now it was possible to feel concern , the problem was extremely interesting . I had no prejudice against self ...
... person like myself , to whom the preservation of the British Empire appeared to be the only public cause in which just now it was possible to feel concern , the problem was extremely interesting . I had no prejudice against self ...
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... persons who are now regarded as our wisest . It was not always so . It is not so now with nations who are in a sound state of health . The Americans , when they choose a President or a Secretary of State or any functionary from whom ...
... persons who are now regarded as our wisest . It was not always so . It is not so now with nations who are in a sound state of health . The Americans , when they choose a President or a Secretary of State or any functionary from whom ...
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... I observed them with the curiosity with which one studies persons with whom one is to be shut up for weeks in involuntary intimacy . One young THE ' MOSELLE 17 Demerara planter attracted my notice , 16 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
... I observed them with the curiosity with which one studies persons with whom one is to be shut up for weeks in involuntary intimacy . One young THE ' MOSELLE 17 Demerara planter attracted my notice , 16 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
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... person who at- tracted me even more . I took him at first for an American . He was a Dane I found , an engineer by profession , and was on his way to some South American republic . He was a long lean man with grey eyes , red hair , and ...
... person who at- tracted me even more . I took him at first for an American . He was a Dane I found , an engineer by profession , and was on his way to some South American republic . He was a long lean man with grey eyes , red hair , and ...
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