The Story of Our Colonies: with Sketches of Their Present ConditionJ. Hogg & Son, 1869 - 411 páginas |
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... vessels to every known haunt of commerce , and to some which they alone frequented . With Iceland and the most north- ern parts of Europe they traded , and their traffic also took them down to the rich cities of the Medi- terranean ...
... vessels to every known haunt of commerce , and to some which they alone frequented . With Iceland and the most north- ern parts of Europe they traded , and their traffic also took them down to the rich cities of the Medi- terranean ...
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... vessels he proceeded from England to Guinea , where he captured three hundred negroes , and , crossing the Atlantic , he sold his cargo at good profit to the Spaniards in San Domingo . His only purpose in so doing was the adoption of a ...
... vessels he proceeded from England to Guinea , where he captured three hundred negroes , and , crossing the Atlantic , he sold his cargo at good profit to the Spaniards in San Domingo . His only purpose in so doing was the adoption of a ...
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... vessels and fifteen hundred men , in 1567. The voyage was to him and his followers wholly unfer- tunate . He could only obtain a scanty supply of negroes on the African coast , and of these he had B difficulty in disposing on the ...
... vessels and fifteen hundred men , in 1567. The voyage was to him and his followers wholly unfer- tunate . He could only obtain a scanty supply of negroes on the African coast , and of these he had B difficulty in disposing on the ...
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... vessel fitted out by Sir Olive Leigh , " a worshipful knight of Kent " -chanced to land on its shores . They took possession of the island , planting in a prominent locality a cross , with the inscription , " James , King of England and ...
... vessel fitted out by Sir Olive Leigh , " a worshipful knight of Kent " -chanced to land on its shores . They took possession of the island , planting in a prominent locality a cross , with the inscription , " James , King of England and ...
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... vessels for the overthrow of the colonial Roundheads . He was so successful that Lord Protector Crom- well despatched a fleet , with two thousand soldiers on board , under Sir George Ayscue , to oppose him . Ayscue arrived on the 15th ...
... vessels for the overthrow of the colonial Roundheads . He was so successful that Lord Protector Crom- well despatched a fleet , with two thousand soldiers on board , under Sir George Ayscue , to oppose him . Ayscue arrived on the 15th ...
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