| Bryan Edwards - 1806 - 446 pages
...the present condition of this ancient city, the number of its inhabitants, and the commerce which • The following anecdote, related by the same author, is too striking to be overlooked. I shall quote hi: own words : During the stay of the English army in the city, " it chanced that the general sent... | |
| Samuel Hazard - 1873 - 594 pages
...space of one month. " In which time it chanced that the General sent on his messages to the Spaniards a negro boy with a flag of white, signifying truce, as is the Spaniard's ordinary manner to do there; which boy unhappily was first met with some who furiously struck... | |
| Samuel Hazard - 1873 - 668 pages
...space of one month. " In which time it chanced that the General sent on his messages to the Spaniards a negro boy with a flag of white, signifying truce, as is the Spaniard's ordinary manner to do there; which boy unhappily was first met with some who furiously struck... | |
| Richard Hakluyt - 1893 - 344 pages
...present. But amongst other things, it chanced that the General sent on his message to the Spaniards a negro boy with a flag of white, signifying truce, as is the Spanish ordinary manner to do there, when they approach to speak to us ; which boy unhappily was first... | |
| Richard Hakluyt - 1893 - 350 pages
...present. But amongst other things, it chanced that the General sent on his message to the Spaniards a negro boy with a flag of white, signifying truce, as is the Spanish ordinary manner to do there, when they approach to speak to us ; which boy unhappily was first... | |
| Richard Hakluyt - 1909 - 234 pages
...present. But amongst other things, it chanced that the General sent on his message to the Spaniards a negro boy with a flag of white, signifying truce, as is the Spanish ordinary manner to do there, when they approach to speak to us ; which boy unhappily was first... | |
| 1910 - 416 pages
...present. But amongst other things, it chanced that the General sent on his message to the Spaniards a negro boy with a flag of white, signifying truce, as is the Spanish ordinary manner to do there, when they approach to speak to us; which boy unhappily was first... | |
| Charles W. Eliot - 2006 - 405 pages
...present. But amongst other things, it chanced that the General sent on his message to the Spaniards a negro boy with a flag of white, signifying truce, as is the Spanish ordinary manner to do there, when they approach to speak to us; which boy unhappily was first... | |
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