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Page 151 - He also quoted some evidence in support of the view that the disease occurred at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century in Germany and more definite evidence that it occurred in Upper Italy and Hungary in 1890.
Page 17 - Quiloa, in which is a Moorish town with many fair houses of stone and mortar, with many windows after our fashion, very well arranged in streets, with many flat roofs. The doors are of wood, well carved, with excellent joinery. Around it are streams and orchards with many channels of sweet water.
Page 18 - Arabia Felix which henceforth we may call by this name even though it be in Ethiopia for all the sea-coast is well-peopled with villages and abodes of Moors.
Page 20 - This is a place of great traffic, and has a good harbour, in which are always moored craft of many kinds and also great ships, both of those which come from...
Page iii - Issued for 1851. 11— The Geography of Hudson's Bay, Being the Remarks of Captain W. COATS, in many Voyages to that locality, between the years 1727 and 1751. With an Appendix containing Extracts from the Log of Captain Middleton on his Voyage for the Discovery of the North-west Passage, in HMS "Furnace,
Page 202 - powerful lord' and he coined a money of pardaos which even now they call 'puroure deorao' ; and from that time forward it has become a custom to call coins by the names of the kings that made them ; and it is because of this that there are so many names of pardaos in the kingdom of Bisnaga".