The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation: Made by Sea Or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeeres, Issue 6J. MacLehose and sons, 1904 |
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... halfe laden and some readie to be laden with the kings provisions for Englande ; we staiede there until the 24th in which meane tyme we sanke a Biskanie of 12 tonnes , burnte a shippe of the Marquice of Santa Cruse of 15 Tonnes and 31 ...
... halfe laden and some readie to be laden with the kings provisions for Englande ; we staiede there until the 24th in which meane tyme we sanke a Biskanie of 12 tonnes , burnte a shippe of the Marquice of Santa Cruse of 15 Tonnes and 31 ...
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... halfe Moone , stand five blocke houses or small forts , wherein is some very good artillery , and the forts are kept with about an hundred Janisaries . Right before this towne from the seaward is a banke of moving sand , which gathereth ...
... halfe Moone , stand five blocke houses or small forts , wherein is some very good artillery , and the forts are kept with about an hundred Janisaries . Right before this towne from the seaward is a banke of moving sand , which gathereth ...
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... halfe of the wall standing , which hath bene very strong and faire but because it cost many mens lives to win it , the Turke will not have it repaired ; and hath written in the Arabian tongue over the castle gate , which standeth in the ...
... halfe of the wall standing , which hath bene very strong and faire but because it cost many mens lives to win it , the Turke will not have it repaired ; and hath written in the Arabian tongue over the castle gate , which standeth in the ...
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... halfe a yard thicke , and three quarters of a yard long , being dried in the Sunne onely , and betweene every course of bricks there lieth a course of mattes made of canes , which remaine sound and not perished , as though they had bene ...
... halfe a yard thicke , and three quarters of a yard long , being dried in the Sunne onely , and betweene every course of bricks there lieth a course of mattes made of canes , which remaine sound and not perished , as though they had bene ...
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... halfe in circuit : all the buildings , castle and wals , are made of bricke dried in the Sun. The Turke hath here five hundred Jani- saries , besides other souldiers continually in garison and pay , but his chiefe strength is of gallies ...
... halfe in circuit : all the buildings , castle and wals , are made of bricke dried in the Sun. The Turke hath here five hundred Jani- saries , besides other souldiers continually in garison and pay , but his chiefe strength is of gallies ...
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