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About a thousand of these _deportados_ reached Manilla in 1848-9, and being entirely destitute of all resources or means of subsistence, they had to be taken care of by the Colonial Government, who allowed them some rice and water every day, and had, finally, to charter vessels to re-ship them for the Peninsula.
Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking
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To unload at Cascaes, and then to re-ship to Lisbon'll cost –
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Leaving the crew to bale out and re-ship the yams, we clambered on deck.
The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 Louis Becke 1884
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However, I paid the crew off, and then left it to their option to re-ship or not, for they were all right, they had been led to do what they did, and I knew that they wanted to get home, and it was there that the bark was going, direct.
Voyage of the Liberdade Joshua Slocum 1877
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(All over Europe people are howling; they are separated from their baggage and can't get it forwarded to them) I have to re-ship my trunks every day.
Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872
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(All over Europe people are howling; they are separated from their baggage and can't get it forwarded to them) I have to re-ship my trunks every day.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) Mark Twain 1872
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John Hancock offered one of his vessels, free of charge, to re-ship the tea then stored in Boston.
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Every one capable of labouring immediately set to work to re-ship the guns, and stores, and even the woodwork of the houses and forts, to convey them to an island Villegagnon had fixed on in a more secure part of the harbour.
Exiled for the Faith A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The crew, the greater number of whom had been taken on board in Moelfra Bay, numbered about seventy men and boys, and were shipped for a feigned voyage, the Confederate captain trusting to the English love of adventure, to induce them to re-ship when the true destination of the vessel came to be declared.
The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter Raphael Semmes 1843
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This we fortunately succeeded in effecting; and then hanging on by our old piece of rope to the banks of the river, after an hour's delay we contrived to re-ship our rudder, and proceeded on our voyage, which was a continuation of the same eventful history.
Diary in America, Series One Frederick Marryat 1820
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