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Essex nor printed in Hakluyt; I am sure he did not write the _Rutter, or brief directions for sailing into the East-Indies_; I am sure he wrote two works of which Prince says nothing; I am sure he did not make _five_ voyages to the East-Indies; and I am sure, to omit other oversights, that he did not "return home safe again."
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I told him that I had been informed by Mr. Orme, that many parts of the East-Indies were better mapped than the Highlands of
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Cairo, where it is in part imported from the East-Indies.
Travels in Nubia 2004
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The conversation having turned on the prevailing practice of going to the East-Indies in quest of wealth; — JOHNSON.
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Australia, the East-Indies generally, and the Islands of the Pacific, we are entirely and slavishly dependent, as usual, on Great Britain.
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey
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South-American States, and the great fields of Australia, China, and the East-Indies generally, as before noticed.
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey
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"Leviathan" can not pay in freighting unless she runs to Australia and the East-Indies, and runs slowly, on very little coal.
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey
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England to all the prominent European ports, to the Mediterranean, to Egypt, the East-Indies and China, the West-India Islands,
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey
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That of the Pacific coast is not half so far from us, as it is from Europe; that of China, and the East-Indies, and
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey
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It must be borne in mind, too, that when this line was established there were already two lines to the East-Indies and China, and one to
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey
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