A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war, Volume 2 |
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... REEF- SPEARING FISH - NETTING - CATCHING SHARKS - A ROYAL MAUSOLEUM - SUPERSTITIONS OF EAST AND WEST - CENTI- PEDES -INTOXICATING DRINKS - INFLUENZA MRS SIMPSON , DEATH OF 48 CHAPTER XVI . THE ROYAL PROGRESS ROUND MOOREA - THE SEIGNELAY ...
... REEF- SPEARING FISH - NETTING - CATCHING SHARKS - A ROYAL MAUSOLEUM - SUPERSTITIONS OF EAST AND WEST - CENTI- PEDES -INTOXICATING DRINKS - INFLUENZA MRS SIMPSON , DEATH OF 48 CHAPTER XVI . THE ROYAL PROGRESS ROUND MOOREA - THE SEIGNELAY ...
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... reef , about a mile from the shore , where our road skirted the calm lagoon , so blue and peaceful and still . We drove through districts which seemed like one vast orchard of mango , bread - fruit , banana , faes , large orange- trees ...
... reef , about a mile from the shore , where our road skirted the calm lagoon , so blue and peaceful and still . We drove through districts which seemed like one vast orchard of mango , bread - fruit , banana , faes , large orange- trees ...
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... reef . Be- yond these lay outspread the vast Pacific , its deep purple flecked with white crests , telling how briskly the trade - winds blew outside . And far on the horizon , the rugged peaks of Moorea rose , clear and beautiful ...
... reef . Be- yond these lay outspread the vast Pacific , its deep purple flecked with white crests , telling how briskly the trade - winds blew outside . And far on the horizon , the rugged peaks of Moorea rose , clear and beautiful ...
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... REEF - SPEAR- ING FISH - NETTING - CATCHING SHARKS - A ROYAL MAUSO- LEUM SUPERSTITIONS OF EAST AND WEST CENTIPEDES- INTOXICATING DRINKS - INFLUENZA - DEATH OF MRS SIMPSON . — Chez THE REV . JAMES GREEN , Oct. 27th . I HAVE had a day ...
... REEF - SPEAR- ING FISH - NETTING - CATCHING SHARKS - A ROYAL MAUSO- LEUM SUPERSTITIONS OF EAST AND WEST CENTIPEDES- INTOXICATING DRINKS - INFLUENZA - DEATH OF MRS SIMPSON . — Chez THE REV . JAMES GREEN , Oct. 27th . I HAVE had a day ...
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... reef appears from the semaphore to lie in the form of a horse - shoe , so that it literally suggests a rainbow beneath the waters . By the time Mr Green came to drive me back to breakfast , I was truly glad to escape from the blaz- ing ...
... reef appears from the semaphore to lie in the form of a horse - shoe , so that it literally suggests a rainbow beneath the waters . By the time Mr Green came to drive me back to breakfast , I was truly glad to escape from the blaz- ing ...
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