| Alexander von Humboldt - 1814 - 492 էջ
...build schooners and even armed vessels with which they project distant expeditions. The north Avest currents bring them large trunks of pines from the...Philippine islands or China, either from Acapulco and San Blas, or from the north west coast of America. The coasting trade on the western coast of New Spain... | |
| Manley Hopkins - 1862 - 458 էջ
...progress towards that social state which we very improperly designate by the word " civilisation." . . . Perhaps this people will one day be as formidable...pirates of the Bermudas and Bahama Islands and Barbary who are dreaded in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean.' | The origin of the Islands is clearly... | |
| Manley Hopkins - 1866 - 680 էջ
...we very improperly designate by the word "civilisation." . . . Perhaps this people will one day he as formidable on the Great Ocean as the privateers...pirates of the Bermudas and Bahama Islands and Barbary who are dreaded in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean.' $ The origin of the islands is clearly... | |
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