Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 14Leslie Stephen Macmillan, 1888 |
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... land he filled up the intervals of business with courtship and matrimony . Of his wife nothing is known except that her christian name was Judith , and that he describes her as a young woman ' out of the family of the Duchess of Grafton ...
... land he filled up the intervals of business with courtship and matrimony . Of his wife nothing is known except that her christian name was Judith , and that he describes her as a young woman ' out of the family of the Duchess of Grafton ...
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... land . Accordingly , they set out from Cape Corrientes on 31 March 1686 , and after a voyage of great hardship , reached Guam on 20 May . It was well for Captain Swan , ' Dampier says , ' that we got sight of it before our provision was ...
... land . Accordingly , they set out from Cape Corrientes on 31 March 1686 , and after a voyage of great hardship , reached Guam on 20 May . It was well for Captain Swan , ' Dampier says , ' that we got sight of it before our provision was ...
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... land ; and where I found a harbour or river I would land and seek about for men and other animals , vegetables , mine- rals , & c . , and having made what discovery I could , I would return home by the way of Tierra del Fuego ...
... land ; and where I found a harbour or river I would land and seek about for men and other animals , vegetables , mine- rals , & c . , and having made what discovery I could , I would return home by the way of Tierra del Fuego ...
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... land he made a fairly correct running survey , though it was left for Carteret [ see CARTERET , PHILIP ] to discover that St. George's Bay was really St.George's Channel , dividing the island into two ; and as Dampier did not visit the ...
... land he made a fairly correct running survey , though it was left for Carteret [ see CARTERET , PHILIP ] to discover that St. George's Bay was really St.George's Channel , dividing the island into two ; and as Dampier did not visit the ...
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... LAND , SIR NATHANIEL , 1734-1811 . ] was born 20 June 1748 , entered the East India Company's service in 1759 , and , after con- tinuous employment for nearly thirty years , obtained the command of a ship in 1787. In 1804 he was , by ...
... LAND , SIR NATHANIEL , 1734-1811 . ] was born 20 June 1748 , entered the East India Company's service in 1759 , and , after con- tinuous employment for nearly thirty years , obtained the command of a ship in 1787. In 1804 he was , by ...
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