1. "The Funeral, or Way of Burning the Dead Bodies." From George Psalmanazar's An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, An Island subject to the Emperor of Japan (1704).
  2. George Pslamanazar's "Formosan" alphabet.
  3. Map of Europe.
  4. Dialogues in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Flemish. From The Gentleman's Pocket Companion, For Travelling into Foreign Parts (c. 1720).
  5. Tahitian breadfruit.
  6. Ann Bonny and Mary Read, convicted of piracy Nov. 28, 1720.
  7. Captain Bartholomew Roberts.
  8. Captain Edward Thatch (Blackbeard).
  9. Sir William Jones (1746–1794).
  10. Three ashlogues translated by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (1751–1830).
  11. On the Migration of Souls, a Sanskrit ashlogue.

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