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Kemys's orders , as we have seen , were to throw out a screen against possible attacks , open the mine , and bring enough ore to place their good faith beyond all doubt . Mr. Harlow thinks that he disembarked near San Thomé , instead of ...
Kemys's orders , as we have seen , were to throw out a screen against possible attacks , open the mine , and bring enough ore to place their good faith beyond all doubt . Mr. Harlow thinks that he disembarked near San Thomé , instead of ...
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In his last inexpressibly unhappy interview with his chief , Kemys told him 1 four reasons which moved him not to open the mine — the one , the death of my son : the second , the weakness of the English , and their impossibilities to ...
In his last inexpressibly unhappy interview with his chief , Kemys told him 1 four reasons which moved him not to open the mine — the one , the death of my son : the second , the weakness of the English , and their impossibilities to ...
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And then the whole terrible story of Kemys's ' wilfulness ' came outof the lack of self - confidence which had led to the change of plans , and the nervelessness afterwards . We can understand now why Ralegh went out of his mind ...
And then the whole terrible story of Kemys's ' wilfulness ' came outof the lack of self - confidence which had led to the change of plans , and the nervelessness afterwards . We can understand now why Ralegh went out of his mind ...
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| Title | Sir Walter Ralegh: The Last of the Elizabethans |
| Author | Edward John Thompson |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 Jan 2008 |
| ISBN | 818868130X, 9788188681303 |
| Length | 387 pages |
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