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Topiawari , who had been dragged in a chain by Berreo for seventeen days , until he ransomed himself with a hundred plates of gold and strings of spleenstones , was anxious for a coalition against the Spaniards .
Topiawari , who had been dragged in a chain by Berreo for seventeen days , until he ransomed himself with a hundred plates of gold and strings of spleenstones , was anxious for a coalition against the Spaniards .
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Kemys found the Indians dreading and hating the Spaniards , whose habit was ' to borrow some of their wives ' . Living ' betwixt hope and fear ' they had ' earnestly expected our return ... these four or five months ' .
Kemys found the Indians dreading and hating the Spaniards , whose habit was ' to borrow some of their wives ' . Living ' betwixt hope and fear ' they had ' earnestly expected our return ... these four or five months ' .
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He was finally brought to the scaffold for having deceived his King , by concealing the fact that there were already Spaniards in Guiana - a sharp practice for which historians have freely censured him . Note , then , his absolute ...
He was finally brought to the scaffold for having deceived his King , by concealing the fact that there were already Spaniards in Guiana - a sharp practice for which historians have freely censured him . Note , then , his absolute ...
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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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