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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...F UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," e... ...n of the sea -- Monstrous serpents and other frightful forms 70-79 CHAPTER VI. Story of the doomed Bishop. -- Condemned to pass thousands of years in ... ... of Cavendish 393- 404 CHAPTER XXXVIII. Voyage Of Mons. de Bougainville. -- A short history of the life of this great voyager -- His efforts to colon... ...covered country once invited the energies of man? RISE AND FALL OF NATIONS. In short, we must believe that what we call discovery is but reclamation; ... ...er with pitch. References are made to these people by Job and other very early writers. For some reason, which is not recorded in history, they finall... ...emale of which is superstitiously believed to lay her eggs on the back of the male who flies about with them until they are hatched; he watched the p... .... Such was the doubtful distinction of a French pirate called, after the great Russian Czar, Peter the Great, who, originally a common sailor, acquire... ...s usually their custom. As soon as they occupied the city, they seized all the male population and locked them Tip in the churches, then issued a proc... ...him to put into Oonalaska, where he spent some time with the natives, and some Russians who were there for their government, developing the seal fishe...

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