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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... 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 . Right before this towne from 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 . Right before this towne from the ...
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... side , which is but small ; the walles are about three English miles in compasse , but the suburbs are almost as ... side as nere as they can unto the same . In many places upon the rivers side we met with troops of Arabians , of whom we ...
... side , which is but small ; the walles are about three English miles in compasse , but the suburbs are almost as ... side as nere as they can unto the same . In many places upon the rivers side we met with troops of Arabians , of whom we ...
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... side with the spheare or globe of the world , and on the other side two arrowes & 5 rounds and this kind of mony is called Basaruchi , and 15 of these make a vinton of naughty mony , and 5 vintons make a tanga , and 4 vintenas make a ...
... side with the spheare or globe of the world , and on the other side two arrowes & 5 rounds and this kind of mony is called Basaruchi , and 15 of these make a vinton of naughty mony , and 5 vintons make a tanga , and 4 vintenas make a ...
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... Goa , but being there , they are woorth five larines and somewhat more , according as they are in request . There is also another litle sort of mony , round , having 1584 . on the one side a crosse , and 19 THE MONEY OF GOA A.D..
... Goa , but being there , they are woorth five larines and somewhat more , according as they are in request . There is also another litle sort of mony , round , having 1584 . on the one side a crosse , and 19 THE MONEY OF GOA A.D..
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... side a crosse , and on the other side a crowne , which is woorth one halfe a tanga of good money , and another of the same stampe lesse then that which they call Imitivo de buona moneda , which is worth 18 basa- ruches 3 fourth parts a ...
... side a crosse , and on the other side a crowne , which is woorth one halfe a tanga of good money , and another of the same stampe lesse then that which they call Imitivo de buona moneda , which is worth 18 basa- ruches 3 fourth parts a ...
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