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stray off on looting expeditions , after what must have been a torturingly peaceful cruise through West Indian islands the colonists reached Roanoke , which they found deserted , its fort razed , “ but all the houses standing unhurt ...
stray off on looting expeditions , after what must have been a torturingly peaceful cruise through West Indian islands the colonists reached Roanoke , which they found deserted , its fort razed , “ but all the houses standing unhurt ...
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Martinez , Berreo told Ralegh , was the person who invented the name El Dorado , from the gilded men who feasted together ; and this was his account of the fourteen or fifteen days of hooded journeying by which he first reached Manoa ...
Martinez , Berreo told Ralegh , was the person who invented the name El Dorado , from the gilded men who feasted together ; and this was his account of the fourteen or fifteen days of hooded journeying by which he first reached Manoa ...
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If he did not do it now , as soon as he reached London he would be rushed to the scaffold , and his friends would have neither time nor material to do anything effective for him . When they reached Salisbury , he counterfeited dizziness ...
If he did not do it now , as soon as he reached London he would be rushed to the scaffold , and his friends would have neither time nor material to do anything effective for him . When they reached Salisbury , he counterfeited dizziness ...
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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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