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Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson

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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…

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  • … Cocos Islands are low and covered principally with the coco tree [coco-nut tree or palm.] They are …
  • … on Direction and Horsburgh Isles (in which on the latter a banana had just fruited) were found – …
  • … wigwam palace” (all the materials being parts of the Coco tree trunks and top branches) one of that …
  • … onto a small sandbank Islet close by (on which one bushy tree had found room to grow) and to throw …
  • … surface and all beneath is some sand– in which the coconut tree and a few sorts of timber trees …
  • … portion of its surface – some of the coarser species of banana and papayas ^and the soft purplish …
  • … perpetrators – and hang them upon the nearest convenient tree. Of this Mr H was also aware. They had …
  • … oil runs off into the vessels carried for that purpose from tree to tree by the oil collectors . …
  • … one or more hunted down and hung up on the first convenient tree. Of course he would not have done …
  • … Having well conned the history of my Genealogical tree – I had clearly perceived that attachment to …
  • … then dies – so I am proud in having to say – did that tree conclude its life most characteristically …
  • … or diagonally preceding from the root that property of the tree would continue. I scarcely however …
  • … way or other – and he being the leading shoot of their tree it most likely attaches to him – yet – I …
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