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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... towne from the seaward is a banke of moving sand , which gathereth and increaseth with the Westerne winds , in such sort , that , according to an olde prophesie among them , this banke is like to swallow up & overwhelme the towne : for ...
... towne from the seaward is a banke of moving sand , which gathereth and increaseth with the Westerne winds , in such sort , that , according to an olde prophesie among them , this banke is like to swallow up & overwhelme the towne : for ...
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... towne , and is strongly kept with two hundred Janisaries and good artillery . A river passeth thorow the midst of the city , wherewith they water their gardens and mulbery trees , on which there Store of white grow abundance of silke ...
... towne , and is strongly kept with two hundred Janisaries and good artillery . A river passeth thorow the midst of the city , wherewith they water their gardens and mulbery trees , on which there Store of white grow abundance of silke ...
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... towne is greatly peopled . We departed from thence with our camels the last of May with M. John Newbery and his company , and came to Birrah in three dayes , being a small towne situated upon Birrah . the river Euphrates , where it ...
... towne is greatly peopled . We departed from thence with our camels the last of May with M. John Newbery and his company , and came to Birrah in three dayes , being a small towne situated upon Birrah . the river Euphrates , where it ...
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... towne . It is above two English miles in compasse , and the inhabitants generally speake three languages , to wit , the Persian , Arabian and Turkish tongues : the people are of the Spaniards complexion : and the women generally weare ...
... towne . It is above two English miles in compasse , and the inhabitants generally speake three languages , to wit , the Persian , Arabian and Turkish tongues : the people are of the Spaniards complexion : and the women generally weare ...
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... towne they call Ozeah , & another Zecchiah . Before we come to Balsara by one dayes journey , the two rivers of Tigris and Euphrates Curna Castle . meet , and there standeth a castle called Curna , kept by the Turks , where all ...
... towne they call Ozeah , & another Zecchiah . Before we come to Balsara by one dayes journey , the two rivers of Tigris and Euphrates Curna Castle . meet , and there standeth a castle called Curna , kept by the Turks , where all ...
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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