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" ... for they were above double the number of his own people ; and some of them, when they were brought on board the Centurion, and had observed how slenderly she was manned, and the large proportion which the striplings bore to the rest, could not help... "
A New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels: Containing Whatever is ... - Page 482
by John Knox - 1767
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AN IMPARTIAL REPRESENTATION OF THE CONDUCT OF THE SEVERAL POWERS OF EUROPE ...

RICHARD ROLT - 1749 - 548 pages
...number of his own people; and fome of them, when they were brought on board the Centurion, obferving how flenderly fhe was manned, and the large proportion...indignation^ to be thus beaten by a handful of boys: however the commodore, with his accuftomed. humanity, took fo much care of the wounded SpaTHUS was...
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A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th ..., Volume 11

Robert Kerr - 1814 - 584 pages
...bore to the rest, ceuld not help expressing themselves with great indignation to be thus beateu bv a handful of boys. The method, which was taken to hinder them from rising, was by placing all but the officers and the wounded ig the hold, where, to give them as much...
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A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the ..., Volume 4

R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 592 pages
...and the large proportion which the striplings bore in the rest, could not help expressing themselves with great indignation to be thus beaten by a handful...boys. The method which was taken to hinder them from rising, was by placing all but the officers and the wounded in the hold, where, to give them as much...
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A voyage round the world, in the years 1740, 41, 42, 43, 44 (compiled by R ...

George baron Anson - 1853 - 660 pages
...and the large proportion which the striplings bore to the rest, could not help expressing themselves with great indignation, to be thus beaten by a handful...boys. The method which was taken to hinder them from rising, was by placing all but the officers and the wounded in the hold, where, to give them as much...
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A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1740, 41, 42, 43, 44, by George Anson ...

Richard Walter - Voyages around the world - 1853 - 160 pages
...and the large proportion which the striplings bore to the rest, could not help expressing themselves with great indignation, to be thus beaten by a handful...boys. The method which was taken to hinder them from rising, was by placing all but the officers and the wounded in the hold, where, to give them as much...
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The English Circumnavigators: The Most Remarkable Voyages Round the World by ...

David Laing Purves - Discoveries in geography - 1874 - 856 pages
...and the large proportion which the striplings bore to the rest, could not help expressing themselves with great indignation, to be thus beaten by a handful...boys. The method which was taken to hinder them from rising was by placing all but the officers and the wounded in the hold, where, to give them as much...
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Yellow fever, a nautical disease

John Gamgee - 1879 - 224 pages
...and the large proportion which the striplings bore to the rest, could not help expressing themselves with great indignation to be thus beaten by a handful...boys. The method which was taken to hinder them from rising was by placing all but the officers and the wounded in the hold, where, to give them as much...
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Notable Voyages from Columbus to Parry

William Henry Giles Kingston - Discoveries in geography - 1880 - 610 pages
...have done ; indeed, when they saw the men by whom they had been captured, they expressed themselves with great indignation, to be thus beaten by a handful of boys. All the seamen, with the exception of the wounded, were placed in the hold, and that they might have...
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Anson's Voyage Round the World

Richard Walter, George Anson Baron Anson - Pacific Ocean - 1928 - 572 pages
...and the large proportion which the striplings bore to the rest, could not help expressing themselves with great indignation to be thus beaten by a handful...boys. The method, which was taken to hinder them from rising, was by placing all but the officers and the wounded in the hold, where, to give them as much...
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sea passages

Geoffrey Callender - 1943 - 232 pages
...and the large proportion which the striplings bore to the rest, could not help expressing themselves with great indignation to be thus beaten by a handful...boys. The method which was taken to hinder them from rising was by placing all but the officers and the wounded in the hold, where, to give them as much...
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