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Insomuch that it happened sometimes while I was preaching , many round about me hearing me very well , and being very satisfied with what I told them , that if there came along ...
Insomuch that it happened sometimes while I was preaching , many round about me hearing me very well , and being very satisfied with what I told them , that if there came along ...
Page 102
... province of Fuquem , there is at the gate of the Comptroller of the Revenue , a tower well worth seeing , built upon forty pillars , each composed of a single block of octagonal stone , each of which measured twelve spans round and ...
... province of Fuquem , there is at the gate of the Comptroller of the Revenue , a tower well worth seeing , built upon forty pillars , each composed of a single block of octagonal stone , each of which measured twelve spans round and ...
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Those who are already sentenced to death , have some boards put round their necks which hang down to their knees , plastered white , on which is written the reason why they are sentenced , and they are of little more than a span in ...
Those who are already sentenced to death , have some boards put round their necks which hang down to their knees , plastered white , on which is written the reason why they are sentenced , and they are of little more than a span in ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | xvii |
i The Report of Galeote Pereira | 3 |
ii The Treatise of Fr Gaspar da Cruz O P | 45 |
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