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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... overcom with businesses Your honours ever redy FRA : DRAKE I dare not a most writ unto your honour of the great forces we hear the K. of Spayne hath out of the straytts prepair in yngland strongly and most by sea stope XV ILLUSTRATIONS.
... overcom with businesses Your honours ever redy FRA : DRAKE I dare not a most writ unto your honour of the great forces we hear the K. of Spayne hath out of the straytts prepair in yngland strongly and most by sea stope XV ILLUSTRATIONS.
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... 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 midst of the towne , these words ...
... 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 midst of the towne , these words ...
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... hath divers sorts of fish in it , but all are scaled , some as bigge as salmons , like barbils . We landed at Felugia the eight and twentieth of June , where we made our abode seven dayes , for lacke of camels to cary our goods to ...
... hath divers sorts of fish in it , but all are scaled , some as bigge as salmons , like barbils . We landed at Felugia the eight and twentieth of June , where we made our abode seven dayes , for lacke of camels to cary our goods to ...
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... hath bene at the least the space of two yeres . As we come to the city , we passe over the river of Tigris on a great bridge made with boats chained together with two mighty chaines of yron . From thence we departed in flat bottomed ...
... hath bene at the least the space of two yeres . As we come to the city , we passe over the river of Tigris on a great bridge made with boats chained together with two mighty chaines of yron . From thence we departed in flat bottomed ...
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... hath a dutie of 40.s. sterling , upon every Camels lode , which he sendeth his officers to receive of the Caravans , and in consideration hereof , he taketh upon him to conduct the sayd Caravans if they need his helpe , and to defend ...
... hath a dutie of 40.s. sterling , upon every Camels lode , which he sendeth his officers to receive of the Caravans , and in consideration hereof , he taketh upon him to conduct the sayd Caravans if they need his helpe , and to defend ...
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