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  Published: (1735)
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  Published: (1718)
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  Published: (1752)
• Voyage along the eastern coast of Africa to Mosambique, Johanna, and Quiloa, to St. Helena, to Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco in Brazil, in the Nisus frigate
  by: Prior, James
  Published: (1819)
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