"At several such places we landed, but always……" — George Grey
"At several such places we landed, but always found the ascent to the interior so covered with large loose rocks that it would have been impossible to have disembarked stores or stock on any."
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12 Quotes by George Grey
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To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.
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This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and…
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The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and…
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Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so…
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Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not…
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Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of…
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On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the…
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In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us…
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I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of…
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All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the…
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I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of…
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