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Page 36
... desired to bear up the helm to return for England , than make further search . But God the guider of all good actions , forcing them by an extreme storm to hull all night , did drive them by his provi- dence to their desired port ...
... desired to bear up the helm to return for England , than make further search . But God the guider of all good actions , forcing them by an extreme storm to hull all night , did drive them by his provi- dence to their desired port ...
Page 73
... desired , none refused to give us , wondering at everything we had , and heard we had done : our pistols they took for pipes , which they much desired , but we did content them with other commodities . And so we left four or five ...
... desired , none refused to give us , wondering at everything we had , and heard we had done : our pistols they took for pipes , which they much desired , but we did content them with other commodities . And so we left four or five ...
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... desired to hazard a starving , than his pains should prove so much more effectual than theirs . Some projects there were invented by Newport and Ratcliffe , not only to have deposed him , but to have kept him out of the fort ; for that ...
... desired to hazard a starving , than his pains should prove so much more effectual than theirs . Some projects there were invented by Newport and Ratcliffe , not only to have deposed him , but to have kept him out of the fort ; for that ...
Contents
John Smith and the Promise of New England Selec | 125 |
PART | 149 |
John Smiths Written Testimony to the Commission | 158 |
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