The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and 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 Compass of These 1600 Yeares, Volume 11MacLehose, 1904 |
Common terms and phrases
aboord admirall againe anker Arica barke boate brought called canoas Cape Cape Blanco Cape Froward captaine Drake caravel caried Chili clocke coast of Brasil comming countrey course day wee dayes degr degrees Diego de Almagro divers East Englishmen entred espied fadoms water fathoms Fernambuck Francisco Pizarro fresh water Generall golde governour harborough harbour hath houses hundred Iago Iland Indians inhabited Island Isle Item king land latitude leagues lieth lyeth marchants Master moneth morning mountaines mouth neere Negros night Nombre de Dios North Northeast Northward ordinance Panama Peru Pilot pinnesse port Port Desire Port famine Portugall Portugals returned river of Plate Santos sayd sayle sent shippe ships shoare sholdes shore shot side souldiers South sea Southward Southwest Spaine Spaniards standeth Streights of Magellan thence towne tunnes unto victuals voyage warre wee departed wee found West wherein whereof whereupon winde yeere yland
Popular passages
Page xvi - Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore, Strike et when your powder's runnin' low; If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven, An' drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago." Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come, (Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?), Slung atween the round shot, listenin' for the drum, An' dreamin' arl the time o
Page 127 - Albion, and that for two causes : the one in respect of the white banks and cliffs, which lie towards the sea: and the other, because it might have some affinity with our country in name, which sometime was so called.
Page 123 - ... upon it. These women are very obedient and serviceable to their husbands. After they were departed from us, they came and visited us the second time, and brought with them feathers and bags of tabacco for presents.
Page 136 - This cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth, and we passed by it the 1 8th of June.
Page 112 - Julian, where we found a gibbet standing upon the maine, which we supposed to be the place where Magellan did execution upon some of his disobedient and rebellious company.
Page 105 - And proceeding further we met with three carvels, and took them also. The 17. day of January we arrived at Cape Blanco, where we found a ship riding at anchor, within the Cape, and but two simple mariners in her. Which ship we...
Page xx - We lighted our ship upon the rockes of 3. tunne of cloves, 8. peeces of ordinance, and certaine meale and beanes : and then the winde (as it were in a moment by the speciall grace of God) changing from the starreboord to the larboord of the ship, we hoised our sailes, and the happy gale drove our ship off the rocke into the sea againe...
Page 135 - In the meane time they have ready another great earthen pot, set fast in a fornace, boiling full of water, whereinto they put their pot with rice, by such measure, that they swelling become soft at the first, and by their swelling stopping the holes of the pot, admit no more water to enter, but the more they are boiled, the harder and more...
Page 121 - Fawlcon of golde, with a great Emeraud in the breast thereof, and the Pilot of the ship he tooke also with him, and so cast the ship off. This Pilot brought us to the haven of Guatulco, the towne whereof, as he told us, had but 17.
Page 133 - ... the next day, being indeed out of all hope to escape the danger. But our...