Daniel De Foe's Voyage Round the World: By a Course Never Sailed Before. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, by William Shiells, Esq. In Three Volumes. ...

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F. Noble, 1787
 

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Stran 123 - be always very faithful. But it is our people, I mean the Europeans, who, by breaking faith with them, teach them ingratitude, and inure them to treat their new comers with breach of faith, and with cruelty and barbarity. If you once win them by
Stran 29 - of laughing at it, and that there was nothing to be found there, but that it lay all the other way. : And yet two or three of the men, who, when the tide was out, went up the bank of the river, two or three miles upon the
Stran 141 - leagues, when they came to a town called St. Anthonio de los Vejos, or, the Town of St. Anthony and the old Men; that there was a great river at that city, from whence they found means to go down to the Rio de la Plata, and
Stran 112 - goats they came at, when there were but a few men together, they frighted the creatures, and they ran all away into holes, and among the rocks and places where we could not find them: So that for that day they made little of it. However,
Stran 96 - as I had done, in proportion to their gain. This they agreed to, and to work they went; but whether it was that the fellows worked with a better will, or that the officers gave them more liquor, or that they found a new bank of
Stran 28 - they were able to make. They had two youths with them, each of which led a tame fawn of pretty large growth ; and when the men came up, they gave the two fawns to our men ; who, in return, gave each of them, a knife, and
Stran 148 - a port in a little bay about fifteen leagues North from Coquimbo. From hence, to the port of Copiapo, is twenty-five leagues : Here we found a very good port, though no trading town or city; but the country being well inhabited, we found means to acquaint
Stran 31 - many trinkets and. trifles, that our men not only got all the gold they brought, but the very pieces of gold out of their ears ; in return for which, our men gave them every one a pair of earrings, to hang about their ears,
Stran 67 - and made much of it. In this figure, he carried it up in his arms to the Indian's hut where he had found it, and where there had been a lamentable outcry for the child all the night, the mother crying and
Stran 146 - from bad weather. We found means here, without going up to the city of St. Jago, to have merchants enough to come down to us; for this being a very rich city, and full of money, we found all our valuable

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