seychelles

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Monsieur de seychelles, who grows into power, is labouring at their finances and marine: they have struck off their sous-fermiers, and by a reform in what they call the King's pleasures, have already saved 1,200,000 pounds sterling a year.

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  1. a group of about 90 islands in the western Indian Ocean to the north of Madagascar
  2. a republic on the Seychelles islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1976

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  • Action! we need to fight fire with fire, all those countries that is using seychelles waters to provide for there own needs to colaborate As a Seychellois I say we must never let those pirates use our waters. —  Examiner California Headlines
  • Action! we need to fight fire with fire, all those countries that is using seychelles waters to provide for there own needs to colaborate If this is true then it is very damaging for the Seychelles as that zone is used for flyfishing which brings in a lot of income for the people working in this industry. —  Examiner California Headlines
  • After some month of silence, they captured 24 Indians at the cost of seychelles. —  The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public
  • Monsieur de seychelles, who grows into power, is labouring at their finances and marine: they have struck off their sous-fermiers, and by a reform in what they call the King's pleasures, have already saved 1,200,000 pounds sterling a year. —  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
  • (2002) Direct benefits and the evolution of female-biased cooperative breeding in seychelles warblers. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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