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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Page xiv
... litle hurte , god be thanked , yeat at our departure we were Curteouslie written unto by one Don Pedro generall of those gallies ; I assure your Ho : the like preparacion was never hearde of nor knowen as the kinge of Spaigne hathe xiv ...
... litle hurte , god be thanked , yeat at our departure we were Curteouslie written unto by one Don Pedro generall of those gallies ; I assure your Ho : the like preparacion was never hearde of nor knowen as the kinge of Spaigne hathe xiv ...
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... litle or no stone is to be found : their houses are Seldome rain . all flat - roofed and low . They have no raine for eight moneths together , nor almost any clouds in the skie , night nor day . Their Winter is in November , Decem- ber ...
... litle or no stone is to be found : their houses are Seldome rain . all flat - roofed and low . They have no raine for eight moneths together , nor almost any clouds in the skie , night nor day . Their Winter is in November , Decem- ber ...
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... litle lesse . The currant mony of Babylon are Saies , which Say is 5 medines , as in Aleppo , and 40 medines being 8 Saies make a duckat currant , and 47 medines passe in value as the duckat of gold of Venice , and the dollars of the ...
... litle lesse . The currant mony of Babylon are Saies , which Say is 5 medines , as in Aleppo , and 40 medines being 8 Saies make a duckat currant , and 47 medines passe in value as the duckat of gold of Venice , and the dollars of the ...
Page 14
... litle , is 20 frasoli , and every frasoll is 10 manas , and every mana 23 chiansi , and every chianso 10 meticals and a halfe . Note that every quintall maketh 4 erubi or roues , and every What a rotilo roue 32 rotiloes , & every rotilo ...
... litle , is 20 frasoli , and every frasoll is 10 manas , and every mana 23 chiansi , and every chianso 10 meticals and a halfe . Note that every quintall maketh 4 erubi or roues , and every What a rotilo roue 32 rotiloes , & every rotilo ...
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... litle and round , and is worth 24 sadines , which maketh 30 medines of Aleppo . The Venetian mony is worth in Ormuz larines 88 per 100 meticals , & the roials are worth larines 86 lesse one sadine , which is every thousand meticals ...
... litle and round , and is worth 24 sadines , which maketh 30 medines of Aleppo . The Venetian mony is worth in Ormuz larines 88 per 100 meticals , & the roials are worth larines 86 lesse one sadine , which is every thousand meticals ...
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aboord Admirall aforesaid againe Aleppo alwayes anker aspers Babylon Balsara Bassa Beglerbegs Benin betwixt boate brought called Cape Cape Verde Captaine Caravels caried castle Chaul China clocke coast comming companie of marchants countrey custome dayes degrees divers dominions East England English fadome farre foorth foure Gallies Generall gold Governour and companie Grand Signior graunt Guinea hath hundred Iland John king kingdome knowen laden land larines leagues letters patents Levant lieth Lisbon litle Majestie Malacca maner marchandise Master moneth monson neere Negros night ordinance Ormus Ormuz ounces Palmas pinnesse Pinteado Portugall Portugals pounds quintall Ralph Fitch ranne river sayd Governour sent Sestos set saile shewed shippe ships depart shoare shore shot side sight sort souldiers standeth Sunne tangas Tenerif thence thereof things thither thousand tooke towne traffike traffique trees tunnes Turkes unto victuals voyage warres wherein winde yeere yere