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The Shipwreck of Capt. Prenties-Occum Chamnam, a Siamese Mandarin-Emanuel Soza-the Countess de Bourk.

The Narrative of the Deliverance of the Guardian Sloop-Escape of Six Deserters from St. Helena-Famine on board the American Ship Peggy, &c. &c. &c.

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