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He peeped also into Tagus mouth , where the veteran Spanish admiral , Santa Cruz , was fretting himself into his grave . He did nothing here ( beyond leaving such terror as a dragon leaves when he has shown his teeth in some shelter of ...
He peeped also into Tagus mouth , where the veteran Spanish admiral , Santa Cruz , was fretting himself into his grave . He did nothing here ( beyond leaving such terror as a dragon leaves when he has shown his teeth in some shelter of ...
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When Ralegh arrived in 1618 , the Governor of the Orinoco region was Diego Palomeque de Acuña , a near relation of the Spanish Ambassador in London . He tried to enforce the trading prohibition , with little success , Orinoco's network ...
When Ralegh arrived in 1618 , the Governor of the Orinoco region was Diego Palomeque de Acuña , a near relation of the Spanish Ambassador in London . He tried to enforce the trading prohibition , with little success , Orinoco's network ...
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If it were lawful for the Spanish to murther 26 Englishmen , tying them back to back , and then to cut their throats , when they had traded with them a whole month and came to them on the land without so much as one sword amongst them ...
If it were lawful for the Spanish to murther 26 Englishmen , tying them back to back , and then to cut their throats , when they had traded with them a whole month and came to them on the land without so much as one sword amongst them ...
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| Title | Sir Walter Ralegh, Last of the Elizabethans |
| Author | Edward John Thompson |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Jul 2010 |
| Length | 416 pages |
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