Treasure Island vocabulary

He, who apprehended I could not live a month, was ready enough to part with me, and demanded a thousand pieces of gold, which were ordered him on the spot, each piece being about the bigness of eight hundred moidores;

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I might have been worth a hundred thousand moidores— and what business had I to leave a settled fortune, a well-stocked plantation, improving and increasing, to turn supercargo to Guinea to fetch negroes,

Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe (1719)