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...Early on the morning of 1 August 1699, a small vessel, the Roebuck, tacked back and forth over the shoals off the western coast of New Holland awaiting daylight and the sight of land. Having suffered a long journey from Brazil, Captain William Dampier sought a harbour on the coast to replenish his dwindling supplies of water and fresh vegetables for his ...

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...ted me to give you. My Father was a native of Ireland and an inhabitant of Wales; my Mother was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Op... ...hed my eighteenth Year I was recalled by my Parents to my paternal roof in Wales. Our man- sion was situated in one of the most romantic parts of the... ...t being left by her Parents in indigent Circumstances she had retired into Wales on eoconomical motives. There it was our freindship first commenced. ... ...hools in London; had spent a fortnight in Bath and had supped one night in Southampton. “Beware my Laura (she would often say) Beware of the insipid V... ...land; Beware of the unmeaning Luxuries of Bath and of the stinking fish of Southampton.” “Alas! (exclaimed I) how am I to avoid those evils I shall n... ... of London, the Luxu- 7 Jane Austen ries of Bath, or the stinking Fish of Southampton? I who am doomed to waste my Days of Youth and Beauty in an hu... ... having roasted Beef, Broiled Mut- ton, and Stewed Soup enough to last the new-married Couple through the Honey-moon, I had the mortifica- tion of fin... ...een able to drive poor Henry from her remembrance. You ask me whether your new Mother in law is hand- some and amiable—I will now give you an exact de... ...our Mother may not have distressed herself to set you off. Have you got a new Gown on?” “Y es Ma’am.” replied I with as much indifference as I could ...