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Alfonso was the first who reached the coast at Cape Branco, where he landed, and set up a wooden cross as a signal to his consorts, and then proceeded to the islands of Arguin, which afforded shelter from the tremenduous surf which breaks continually on the coast of Africa.

The words will be brought out with a visible anxiety and diffidence, approaching to hesitation; few and slow; nothing of vain repetition, haranguing, flowers of rhetoric, or affected figures of speech; all simplicity, humility, and lowliness, such as becomes a reptile of the dust, when presuming to address Him, whose greatness is tremenduous beyond all created conception.

The peculiar orthography of the writer is defended in the preface, for he allows himself not only such divergencies as 'tremenduous, 'authour, 'ambassadour, but also 'authentick' and 'panegyrick. The dedication of the first edition to Paoli was dated on his own birthday, and the book ran to a third edition before the October of the same year.

It's my belief she put the execution in herself: and was tired of him." "Play much?" asked Morgan. "Not since the smash. When your governor, and the lawyers, and my lady and him had that tremenduous scene: he went down on his knees, my lady told Mrs. He's a sly old cove, your gov'nor."