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"Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood."
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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
"Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls."
"The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand."
"If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over."
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"Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes."
"Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island."
"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land."
"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
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"Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long."
"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
"No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service."
"By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination."
"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise."
"But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them."
"I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses."
"These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."
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