The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses

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The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses
Язык: Английский
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This has been angrily denied. A gentleman whose veracity I cannot doubt assured me that he had himself seen a dead body lying unburied among some bushes. When he returned to the place a month after it was still there. The frightful mortality among the labourers, at least in the early years of the undertaking, is too notorious to be called in question.
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Euripides.
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He rests in peace.
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He is now in grace.
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Tortoise Islands; the buccaneers' head quarters.
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I believe this to be the true meaning of ἐυμμελίης. It is usually rendered, 'armed with a stout spear.'