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... and halfe for me : and so continually importuned by messengers and presents , that I would come to fetch the corne , and take the Countrie their King had given me , as at last Captaine Newport resolved to go see him .
... and halfe for me : and so continually importuned by messengers and presents , that I would come to fetch the corne , and take the Countrie their King had given me , as at last Captaine Newport resolved to go see him .
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And as they presented themselves , ever with thankes he would salute me : and caused each of them to have foure or five pound of bread given them . This done , I asked him for the corne and ground he promised me .
And as they presented themselves , ever with thankes he would salute me : and caused each of them to have foure or five pound of bread given them . This done , I asked him for the corne and ground he promised me .
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to betray us , seeing his falter in his tale , being two miles on our way , led him ashore : where abusing us from place to place , and so seeking either to have drawne us with him into the woods , or to have given us the slippe ...
to betray us , seeing his falter in his tale , being two miles on our way , led him ashore : where abusing us from place to place , and so seeking either to have drawne us with him into the woods , or to have given us the slippe ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
GEORGE MASON 17251792 | 17 |
JOHN RANDOLPH 17731833 | 19 |
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| Title | Virginia Reader: a Treasury of Writings from the First Voyages to the Present |
| Editor | Francis Coleman Rosenberger |
| Contributor | Francis Coleman Rosenberger |
| Publisher | E.P. Dutton, 1948 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 576 pages |
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