Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 207William Blackwood, 1920 - England |
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... moved south : first to St Vin- cent , in the Cape de Verde Islands , that horrid , torrid group of wind - swept oinders ; and lastly , to the even hotter , but at least verdant harbour of Sierra Leone- " the best ' ole of all , " as it ...
... moved south : first to St Vin- cent , in the Cape de Verde Islands , that horrid , torrid group of wind - swept oinders ; and lastly , to the even hotter , but at least verdant harbour of Sierra Leone- " the best ' ole of all , " as it ...
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... move one yard outside those neutral Spanish waters . Many others of the same scared company we saw later on , who had taken refuge at the Azores , at Madeira , and in the Cape de Verde Islands , where they lay sheltering and swelter ...
... move one yard outside those neutral Spanish waters . Many others of the same scared company we saw later on , who had taken refuge at the Azores , at Madeira , and in the Cape de Verde Islands , where they lay sheltering and swelter ...
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... move away , under the high dark eliffs of Teneriffe . Even had she been seen by us to be moving , she might easily have been mistaken for one of the small Spanish inter- island steamers she so greatly re- sembled , and thus to have ...
... move away , under the high dark eliffs of Teneriffe . Even had she been seen by us to be moving , she might easily have been mistaken for one of the small Spanish inter- island steamers she so greatly re- sembled , and thus to have ...
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... move about unless supported by the Real Artiole . Had the German cruiser been actually with her merchant cruiser when the Carmania appeared on the scene , there must have been a quite different ending to the affair . On the other hand ...
... move about unless supported by the Real Artiole . Had the German cruiser been actually with her merchant cruiser when the Carmania appeared on the scene , there must have been a quite different ending to the affair . On the other hand ...
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... moved and " jugged . " We boarded her , and the captain , a Greek , speaking perfect English , and holding 8 British sailing - master's certificate , kindly volunteered the information that his cargo had been put on board by a German ...
... moved and " jugged . " We boarded her , and the captain , a Greek , speaking perfect English , and holding 8 British sailing - master's certificate , kindly volunteered the information that his cargo had been put on board by a German ...
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