Stories of Discovery Told by Discovers...Roberts bros., 1882 - 290 pages |
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Admiral adventure Africa afternoon anchor Antarctic Antarctic Circle appeared arms arrived boat boys brought caboceers called canoes Cape CAPE CARR Captain captain-major caravel Cartagena coast Colonel Ingham Columbus continued crew discovered discovery distance east England fathoms feet fire four gave Golden Hinde hands harbor hope horse hundred icebergs Indians inlet island Jamestown Jannah Karuma Falls king King of Portugal lake land latitude leagues Lisbon longitude looked Magellan Maluco miles Mink Brook morning Mount Erebus mountains navigation night Nile ordered Pacific party passage passed Paulo da Gama pinnace Portugal Powhatan present reached river rocks round seemed seen sent set sail ships shore side soon southward Spain story strait thence tion told took trees Uncle Fritz unto Vasco da Gama vessels voyage weather westward whereof wind Youriba
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Page 114 - All of a sudden, as is wont to happen to navigators, a violent contrary wind blew in from the sea, and forced us to return to our ship, greatly regretting to leave this region which seemed so commodious and delightful, and which we supposed must also contain great riches, as the hills showed many indications of minerals.
Page 140 - Not long after, early in a morning a great fire was made in a long house, and a mat spread on the one side, as on the other; on the one they caused him to sit, and all the guard went out of the house, and presently came skipping in a great grim fellow, all painted over with coale, mingled with oyle; and many Snakes...
Page 143 - That night they quartered in the woods, he still expecting (as he had done all this long time of his imprisonment) every hour to be put to one death or other for all their feasting. But almighty God by his divine providence, had mollified the hearts of those stern barbarians with compassion.
Page 240 - ... feet above the lake. Standing on the summit, we enjoyed an extended view of the lake, enclosed in a basin of rugged mountains, which sometimes left marshy flats and extensive bottoms between them and the shore, and in other places came directly down into the water with bold and precipitous bluffs. Following with our glasses the irregular shores, we searched for some indications of a communication with other bodies of water, or the entrance of other rivers ; but the distance was so great that...
Page 120 - Saturday in the afternoon, the 31 of August, we changed our course, and returned back for England. At which very instant, even in winding about, there passed along between us and towards the land which we now forsook a very lion to our seeming, in shape, hair, and colour, not swimming after the manner of a beast by moving of his feet, but rather sliding upon the water with his whole body excepting the legs, in sight...
Page 112 - Although the whole coast is low and without harbours, it is not dangerous for navigation, being free from rocks and bold, so that within four or five fathoms from the shore there is twentyfour feet of water at all times of tide, and this depth constantly increases in a uniform proportion, The holding ground is so good that no ship can part her cable, however violent the wind, as we proved by experience...
Page 227 - In the sight of such a mass of life, the traveler feels a strange emotion of grandeur. We had heard from a distance a dull and confused murmuring, and, when we came in view of their dark masses, there was not one among us who did not feel his heart beat quicker. It was the early part of the day, when the herds are feeding ; and every where they were in motion.
Page 95 - Majesty at his return would rest contented with this service, purposed to continue no longer upon the Spanish coasts, but began to consider and to consult of the best way for his country.
Page 115 - ... skins upon their arms, and various ornaments upon their heads, composed of braids of hair, which also hang down upon their breasts on each side. Others wear different ornaments, such as the women of Egypt and Syria use. The older and the married people, both men and women, wear many ornaments in their ears, hanging down in the oriental manner. We saw upon them several pieces of wrought copper, which is more esteemed by them than gold, as this is not valued on account of its colour...
Page 143 - Not long after from behind a mat that divided the house, was made the most dolefulest noise he ever heard. Then Powhatan more like a devil than a man, with some two hundred more as black as himself, came unto him and told him now they were friends, and presently he should go to Jamestown, to send him two great guns, and a grindstone, for which he would give him the country of Capahowosick, and forever esteem him as his son Nantaquoud.