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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... miles distant from the port : on the side of which port , trending in forme of an 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 ...
... miles distant from the port : on the side of which port , trending in forme of an 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 ...
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... miles round about are goodly gardens and vineyards and trees , which beare goodly fruit neere unto the rivers side , which is but small ; the walles are about three English miles in compasse , but the suburbs are almost as much more ...
... miles round about are goodly gardens and vineyards and trees , which beare goodly fruit neere unto the rivers side , which is but small ; the walles are about three English miles in compasse , but the suburbs are almost as much more ...
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... mile in compasse , and almost as high as the stone- worke of Pauls steeple in London , but it sheweth much bigger . The ... miles in compasse , and the inhabitants generally speake three languages , to wit , the Persian , Arabian and ...
... mile in compasse , and almost as high as the stone- worke of Pauls steeple in London , but it sheweth much bigger . The ... miles in compasse , and the inhabitants generally speake three languages , to wit , the Persian , Arabian and ...
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... miles broad : here also it beginneth to ebbe and flow , and the water overflowing maketh the countrey all about very fertile of corne , rice , pulse , and dates . The towne of Balsara is a mile and an halfe in circuit : all the ...
... miles broad : here also it beginneth to ebbe and flow , and the water overflowing maketh the countrey all about very fertile of corne , rice , pulse , and dates . The towne of Balsara is a mile and an halfe in circuit : all the ...
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... miles a day , resting ourselves commonly from two of the clocke in the afternoone , until three in the morning , at which time we begin to take our journey . Eight dayes journey from Babylon toward Aleppo , neere [ II . i . 271. ] unto ...
... miles a day , resting ourselves commonly from two of the clocke in the afternoone , until three in the morning , at which time we begin to take our journey . Eight dayes journey from Babylon toward Aleppo , neere [ II . i . 271. ] unto ...
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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