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Page 39
'Look at the face of old Dampier, Coleridge said about his portrait, “a rough sailor,
but a man of exquisite mind. How soft is the air of his countenance, how delicate
the shape of his temples.” He had a mind which was quick to take over other ...
'Look at the face of old Dampier, Coleridge said about his portrait, “a rough sailor,
but a man of exquisite mind. How soft is the air of his countenance, how delicate
the shape of his temples.” He had a mind which was quick to take over other ...
Page 47
By March, having finished his work on the coasts of New Zealand, he began to
turn over in his mind the route to be followed on the way home. To go by Cape
Horn had its attractions as by taking this route he would have been able to prove
or ...
By March, having finished his work on the coasts of New Zealand, he began to
turn over in his mind the route to be followed on the way home. To go by Cape
Horn had its attractions as by taking this route he would have been able to prove
or ...
Page 342
So one of the main themes in the report grew in Bigge's mind. And just as his
ideas on the future of the colony were diverging from those of Macquarie,
relations between them again became strained by an angry exchange of letters
on the best ...
So one of the main themes in the report grew in Bigge's mind. And just as his
ideas on the future of the colony were diverging from those of Macquarie,
relations between them again became strained by an angry exchange of letters
on the best ...
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