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  • Mr. Grimaldi also possesses great merit in Pantomimic performances of a different character, which all are aware of, who have ever seen him in the melodrama, called "Perouse," and other pieces of the same description.

    A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent

  • Another head — for Bashti was a confirmed head-collector — went back two centuries before La Perouse to Alvaro de Mendana, the Spaniard.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • And all that remains is for you to lead me directly to the head of La Perouse himself.

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  • Nor did he know it was the head of La Perouse, the doughty old navigator, who had left his bones, the bones of his crews, and the bones of his two frigates, the Astrolabe and the

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • The French explorer La Perouse, was wrecked on Vanikoro in 1788.

    HOFFMAN, MORTENSEN WRECK THE ASTROLABE 2008

  • Louis XII., born to become the dupe of all his neighbors, assisted Julius in seizing upon Bologna and Perouse.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Bagliones at Perouse, the Ursins in Anguillara and in Serveti, the

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • While still in his twenties, he had sailed on the final expedition of the navigator La Perouse, around Cape Horn to California and, at length, to Petropavlovsk, in Kamchatka.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • From there, in 1787, on orders from La Perouse, all alone and with winter approaching, he had set out to find his way home to France.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • While still in his twenties, he had sailed on the final expedition of the navigator La Perouse, around Cape Horn to California and, at length, to Petropavlovsk, in Kamchatka.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

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