[…] wearing a waist-coat rich in breloques (the most amusing of which was a dagger the size of a fingernail)

This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

His discoveries have been made by sympathetic looking rather than by assiduous archivizing.

Nowe therefore hearken, O Iſrael, vnto the Statutes, and vnto the Judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may liue, and goe in and poſſeſſe the lande, which the Lord God of your fathers giueth you.