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A70052 A new discovery of Terra incognita Australis, or, The southern world, by James Sadeur, a French-man, who being cast there by a shipwrack, lived 35 years in that country and gives a particular description of the manners, customs, religion, laws, studies and wars of those southern people, and of some animals peculiar to that place ... translated from the French copy ...; Terre australe connue. English Foigny, Gabriel de, ca. 1630-1692. 1693 (1693) Wing F1395; ESTC R20648 83,070 196

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