Excerpt from Remarkable Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Anson's Voyages Round the World, Stephen's Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia and Poland, And Koempfer's Account of Japan
ON the 18th of September, 17 40, the squadron, as we have observed in the preceding chapter, weighed from St. Helens with a contrary wind, the commodore proposing to tide it down the channel, as he dreaded less the inconveniences he should thereby have to struggle with, than the risk he should run of ruining t e enterprise, by an uncer tain, and in all probability, a tedious attendance for a fair wind.
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ISBN | 9781333900670 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Forgotten Books |
Jahr | 2016 |
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