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Not the. fmalleft furprife was exprefled at the application, and the wood was readily given, even without ftipulating for any thing in remm, Whilft the failors were taking it away, I obferved one of them carrying oflf a carved image; and, on further in - iquiry, I found that they had conveyed to the boats the whole • femicircle.
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* The failors, who had all caught horfes and ware armed wiUa,
The lay of Corneelis: in three cantos, by an officer [T.W. Taylor] who was present at the storm ... Thomas William Taylor 1812
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Boullanger, Maurouard, and the eight failors who had accompanied them!
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The increafe of union and preparations for failors belonging to Liverpool difmiffed from fervice. war among the colonifts were by the minillerial party Their fituation foon rc-udered them riotous; and it treated as the mere commotions of an headftrong mob; was not without the affiftanceof the military that they and by the other as an affociation of an injuied and were quelled.
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As there is a ftandinj order of Congrefs that no failors or foldiers fhall be exdun - gcd for citizens, I did not incline to comply with the rcqoct without the particular direftion of Congrefs: but I havt been fince informed that the prifoncrs, mentioned in the committee's letter as citizens, arc really feamen taken froai private vefiels, but not in arms.
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To make tlie Jiarhowr of Skerries, failors muft keep clear of the crofs i give the illand a good birth, until they bring the northernmoft houfe in Skerries in a line with a houfe that ftands on the hilt of Skerries; when thev bring thefe marks to bear, they are at the Northward of the Crofs.
Topographia hibernica : or The topography ofIreland, antient and modern. Giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom; with its antiquities, natural curiosities, trade, manufactures, extent and population Seward, William Wenman 1795
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The new colony a upon the ifland jufl at the time the three failors were about to \ with their ambergris $ which Moor having difcovered,, he i diately feized and difpofed of it for the benefit of the com So valuable a booty gave vafl fpirit to the new company; ai adventurers fettled themfelves upon 8t.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States 1795
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I thank God, I thank God; is it true? is it tniet Tub, I fpoke with fome of the failors that efcapcd the wreck*
Works 1795
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Two or three failors were Handing before the habitation he had noticed i but they ap - parently belonged to his favage party, as they hailed them when they arrived in a manner that feemed to indicate an expeftadon of fee - ing them fooner.
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The failors were called to their duty — the brig was afloat — and the paffengcrs were de - fired to be ready.
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