The Fleets of the World: The Galley Period

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D. Van Nostrand, 1876 - 235 ページ
 

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14 ページ - ... When autumn came, they went ashore, wherever they might happen to be, and having sown a tract of land with corn, waited until the grain was fit to cut. Having reaped it, they again set sail; and thus it came to pass that two whole years went by, and it was not till the third year that they doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and made good their voyage home. On their return, they declared — I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may — that in sailing round Libya they had the sun...
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