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Page 71
... course , say they , Mahomet took for the better Information of his Proselytes . Who leaving Natural Causes , declares these Secrets were Revealed to him : That The Winds were raised by an Angel's moving his Wings . The Flux and Reflux ...
... course , say they , Mahomet took for the better Information of his Proselytes . Who leaving Natural Causes , declares these Secrets were Revealed to him : That The Winds were raised by an Angel's moving his Wings . The Flux and Reflux ...
Page 180
... Course full North - west , being too often retarded by frequent Calms , and sometimes contrary Winds , ( a thing not known between the Tropicks ) till at last we made seventeen Degrees South ; when we altered our North Course to the ...
... Course full North - west , being too often retarded by frequent Calms , and sometimes contrary Winds , ( a thing not known between the Tropicks ) till at last we made seventeen Degrees South ; when we altered our North Course to the ...
Page 193
... course , is another matter - but that is not here in question . The question now is : Can Munchumbay really mean Mahim etymologically ? I suggest that it is a corruption of Mahim- chebhat , or Mahim district . Bhat means , according to ...
... course , is another matter - but that is not here in question . The question now is : Can Munchumbay really mean Mahim etymologically ? I suggest that it is a corruption of Mahim- chebhat , or Mahim district . Bhat means , according to ...
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