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Struggles Through Life, Exemplified in the Various Travels and Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, of Lieut. John Harriott

Struggles Through Life, Exemplified in the Various Travels and Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, of Lieut. John Harriott

Harriott, John

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1235822389
ISBN13: 9781235822384
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.16 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1807 Excerpt: ... were so very civil, he hove to as if to wait for farther instructions from his commodore, and we proceeded on our cruise. We were also hummed out of a small prize, by the master of a pblacre, who declared he had the plague on board and earnestly requested us to take him and the Frenchmen out of his vessel, and give her up to several Tuiks he had on board, passengers from Alexandria to Constantinople. An officer, however, was sent on board to examine cautiously. I suppose he was over cautious: his report confirmed the Frenchman's assertion, and we declined farther intercourse with him. He was met with by the Fame, privateer, a few days after, who, not being so credulous, captured and brought him into Zante while we were lying there. CHAPTER VI. In love, masquerades, the plague and consequences, dispute with the Turkish liashazo at St Jean, (PAcre, and with the French ships there.. At Leghorn, during the Carnival season, I became intimate wjth a youth about my'own age, whose father and mother were French, hut settled long enough at Leghorn to make my friend and his sister Italians. He was very desirous of making a short trip to sea, and I obtained permission of Captain R for his taking a cruise; but a master of one of our prizes, proving to be a relation of his father's, dissuaded him from his project. On our return to Leghorn, in the richest prize we had taken, under Lieutenant L as prizemaster, I was continually solicited by his family to be there as often as I could obtain permission to go on shore; nor did I require much pressing, for his sister was more beautiful than language can express. She was constantly challenging me to dance or teach her English: I was soon over head and ears in love, and Signora did not appear much behindhand. What the old people...

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