| Andrew Ure - 1844 - 756 páginas
...the qualities of the gem, wished to be the purchaser, and offered 150,000 dollars for it, besides two war brigs with their guns and ammunition, together...of great guns, and a quantity of powder and shot. Bat this diamond possessed such celebrity in India, and was regarded as a talisman involving the fortunes... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1860 - 786 páginas
...the qualities of the gem, wished to he the purchaser, and offered 150,000 dollars for it, besides two war brigs with their guns and ammunition, together...of great guns, and a quantity of powder and shot. But this diamond possessed such celebrity in India, being regarded as a talisman involving the fortunes... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1867 - 918 páginas
...qualities of the gem, wished to be the purchaser, and offered 1 50,000 dollars for it, besides two war brigs with their guns and ammunition, together with a certain number of great guns, aud a quantity of powder and shot. But this diamond possessed such celebrity in India, being regarded... | |
| Thomas Alexander G. Balfour - 1873 - 136 páginas
...of that island offered for it 500,000 dollars, two large war-brigs with their guns and ammunition, a certain number of great guns, and a quantity of powder and shot. Other instances might have been adduced, but more than enough have been already given, to prove that... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 502 páginas
...this diamond. He sent a Mr Stewart to the rajah, who offered 150,000 dollars, two large war-brigs, with their guns and ammunition, together with a certain...however, refused to deprive his family of so valuable a hereditary possession, to which the Malays attach the miraculous power of curing all kinds of diseases,... | |
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