The Journal of William Lockerby, Sandalwood Trader in the Fijian Islands During the Years 1808-1809: With an Introduction & Other Papers Connected with the Earliest European Visitors to the Islands |
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Page 526 - of Japonia. Harl. MSS. 6249.—The Letters of Wm. Adams, 1611 to 1617.) With a Commentary by THOMAS RUNDAI.L. pp. xxxviii. 186. i Map. 5 Illus. (Out of print.) Issued for 1850. 9-The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida, By Don Ferdinande de Soto, & six hundred Spaniards his followers. Written by a Gentleman of Elvas, employed in all the action, and translated out of Portuguese
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Page 319 - from the bottomless pit of endless litigation by the invariability of the magnetic declination in Jamaica and the surrounding Archipelago during the whole of the last [i8th] century, all surveys of property there having been conducted solely by the compass." See also Robertson, Phil. Trans., 1806, pt. ii. p. 348, On the permanency of the compass in Jamaica since 1660. In
Page x - About the year 1804 a number of convicts escaped from New "South Wales and settled among the islands. Most of these "desperadoes lived either on Mbau or Rewa, the chiefs of which "allowed them whatever they chose to demand, receiving, in "return, their aid in carrying on war.
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