Narrative and Critical History of America: The later history of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America. 1889

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Justin Winsor
Houghton, Mifflin, 1889
 

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Pagina 121 - Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal ; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition in 1850-51.
Pagina 5 - London; have, at their own great cost and charges, undertaken an expedition for Hudson's Bay, in the north-west part of America, for the discovery of a new passage into the South Sea, and for the finding some trade for furs, minerals and other considerable commodities, and by such, their undertaking, have already made such discoveries as do encourage them to proceed further in pursuance of their said design, by means whereof there may probably arise very great advantage to us and our kingdom...
Pagina 251 - LIVES AND VOYAGES OF DRAKE, CAVENDISH, AND DAMPIER; Including "an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Sea, and the History of the Bucaniers.
Pagina 107 - NARRATIVE OF DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE IN THE POLAR SEAS AND REGIONS.
Pagina 265 - Cullen (Edward). Isthmus of Darien Ship Canal. With a full History of the Scotch Colony of Darien, Several Maps, Views of the Country, and Original Documents.
Pagina 111 - Reasons to shew, that there is a great Probability of a Navigable Passage to the Western American Ocean, through Hudson's Streights, and Chesterfield Inlet...
Pagina 122 - To which is added an Account of her being fallen in with by an American Whaler, after her abandonment in Barrow Straits, and of her presentation to Queen Victoria by the Government of the United States. By GEOEGE F.
Pagina 428 - In winter he threw whole handfuls into the fire. As we were on terms of perfect intimacy, . I have joked him, perhaps rudely, upon his anxious caution. His answer was, "Whatever becomes of me, my friends shall never suffer by my negligence.
Pagina 266 - An Account of a Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Governments for the common good of Mankind.
Pagina 500 - An Impartial History of the War in America, between Great Britain and her Colonies...

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