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... Receiving from the Emir the message that he intended after matins to visit me , I went out to walk in the meantime , but imperceptibly the distance between me and the seraï was increased , till I suddenly discovered , by looking at the ...
... Receiving from the Emir the message that he intended after matins to visit me , I went out to walk in the meantime , but imperceptibly the distance between me and the seraï was increased , till I suddenly discovered , by looking at the ...
Page 53
... received , the expenses of the soldiers and officers , and the punishment for pretended offences in concealing their numbers ; which they averred arose only from the fright they were in . I held up a glass to them , and was nearly as ...
... received , the expenses of the soldiers and officers , and the punishment for pretended offences in concealing their numbers ; which they averred arose only from the fright they were in . I held up a glass to them , and was nearly as ...
Page 72
... received from the Padre Amaya . He had , ten days ago , sent a servant to get some of the cones ; he had been stopped by the snow at Eden , which he represented as then deserted . Finding , however , the little reliance that can be ...
... received from the Padre Amaya . He had , ten days ago , sent a servant to get some of the cones ; he had been stopped by the snow at Eden , which he represented as then deserted . Finding , however , the little reliance that can be ...
Page 81
... received ; from which it would appear that there had neither been , on the part of the missionaries , an attempt to preach , nor , on that of the people , an act of vio- lence . The missionaries , arriving at Eden , entered a house ...
... received ; from which it would appear that there had neither been , on the part of the missionaries , an attempt to preach , nor , on that of the people , an act of vio- lence . The missionaries , arriving at Eden , entered a house ...
Page 83
... received the loan of a house refused to quit it on being re- quired to do so by the owner . The witness added , that ... receiving the order , in the course of two or three days . It was fortunate for the owner that the trader was a Dane ...
... received the loan of a house refused to quit it on being re- quired to do so by the owner . The witness added , that ... receiving the order , in the course of two or three days . It was fortunate for the owner that the trader was a Dane ...
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