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CHAPTER XI Guiana All the vessels of his home , table , and kitchen were of gold and silver , and the meanest of silver and copper for strength and hardness of the metal . He had in his wardroppe hollow statues of gold which seemed ...
CHAPTER XI Guiana All the vessels of his home , table , and kitchen were of gold and silver , and the meanest of silver and copper for strength and hardness of the metal . He had in his wardroppe hollow statues of gold which seemed ...
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... Storing their theft - free treasuries with gold.27 Ralegh accordingly had to talk of gold , and to talk of it increasingly , baiting prospectuses with it , bidding his surveyors waste time hunting for ore that would prove its ...
... Storing their theft - free treasuries with gold.27 Ralegh accordingly had to talk of gold , and to talk of it increasingly , baiting prospectuses with it , bidding his surveyors waste time hunting for ore that would prove its ...
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They included : £ 50 in gold ; a Guiana idol of gold and copper ; a jacinth seal , set in gold , with a Neptune cut. 19. Captain King's Narrative ( Oldys , Ralegh's Works , i , 434 ) . 1. Ralegh , p . 340 . 2.
They included : £ 50 in gold ; a Guiana idol of gold and copper ; a jacinth seal , set in gold , with a Neptune cut. 19. Captain King's Narrative ( Oldys , Ralegh's Works , i , 434 ) . 1. Ralegh , p . 340 . 2.
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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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