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... desire to promote the interests of science and commerce . The pros- ecution of maritime discovery was especially adapted to the genius of her people , and the King , George III . , who had just succeeded to the throne , encouraged the ...
... desire to promote the interests of science and commerce . The pros- ecution of maritime discovery was especially adapted to the genius of her people , and the King , George III . , who had just succeeded to the throne , encouraged the ...
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... desire of proving the truth of such surmises , and the hope of making some val- uable commercial discovery , led to a series of expeditions being sent out from Europe , in which England , under the auspices of the then young monarch ...
... desire of proving the truth of such surmises , and the hope of making some val- uable commercial discovery , led to a series of expeditions being sent out from Europe , in which England , under the auspices of the then young monarch ...
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... desire to return to Tahiti , and there separate ; but this proposal was over- ruled , after much discussion . The next day , however , the subject was renewed , and a show of hands called for , when sixteen declared for the return to ...
... desire to return to Tahiti , and there separate ; but this proposal was over- ruled , after much discussion . The next day , however , the subject was renewed , and a show of hands called for , when sixteen declared for the return to ...
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... desire them to desist , which they did , and every thing became quiet again . My people who had been in the mountains now returned with about three gallons of water . I kept buying up the little bread - fruit that was brought to us ...
... desire them to desist , which they did , and every thing became quiet again . My people who had been in the mountains now returned with about three gallons of water . I kept buying up the little bread - fruit that was brought to us ...
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... desire , forbear to tell you any thing it would be desirable to con- ceal from the world ; though , with respect to yourself , my dear excellent brother , as we are all persuaded of your worth and innocence , we have no secret to hide ...
... desire , forbear to tell you any thing it would be desirable to con- ceal from the world ; though , with respect to yourself , my dear excellent brother , as we are all persuaded of your worth and innocence , we have no secret to hide ...
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Admiral Moresby appeared arrival Bishop Patteson boat Bounty Bounty Bay bread-fruit brother Buffett canoe Captain Bligh Captain Edwards Cloth cocoa-nuts colony command crew dear dearest deck desire duty Edward Young England feel Fletcher Christian friends G. H. NOBBS Gambier Islands gave girls hands happy honor hope hundred inhabitants Isle John Adams Joshua Hill kind land leave letter Lieutenant Bligh Lord M'Intosh M'Koy Melanesian ment midshipman months morning Morrison mother mutineers natives NESSY HEYWOOD Nobbs's Norfolk Island officers ordered Pandora person Peter Heywood Pitcairn Island pounds present prisoners Quintal received remain rocks sail schooner sent ship ship's shore SIR FAIRFAX MORESBY Sir John Young Sir William Denison sister soon Stewart suffering Sunday supply Sydney Tahiti Tahitian thing tion took Valparaiso vessel vols voyage whale women yams
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