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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English ... - Page 278
by Richard Hakluyt - 1903
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The Texts and Versions of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis: As ...

Richard Hakluyt - 1903 - 380 pages
...thrise in a day. Sometimes we trauaibed two or three dales together, not finding any people, and them we were constrained not to ride so fast. Of 20. or 30. horses we had alwayes the woonst, because wee were strangers. For cueny one tookc their choice of the best horses before vs....
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in ...

Sir John Mandeville, Willem van Ruysbroeck, Odorico (da Pordenone) - 1905 - 426 pages
...some days we had change of horses twice or thrice in a day. Sometimes we travelled two or three days together, not finding any people, and then we were constrained not to ride so fast. Of twenty or thirty horses we had always the worst, because we were strangers. For every one took their...
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in ...

Sir John Mandeville - 1905 - 420 pages
...some days we had change of horses twice or thrice in a day. Sometimes we travelled two or three days together, not finding any people, and then we were constrained not to ride so fast. Of twenty or thirty horses we had always the worst, because we were strangers. For every one took their...
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Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a ..., Issue 24

Samuel Purchas - 1906 - 688 pages
...constrained not to ride so fast. Of twentie or thirtie Horses we had alwaies the worst, because we were Strangers. For every one tooke their choice of the best Horses before us. They provided me alwaies of a strong Horse, because I was very corpulent and heavy : but whether he ambled a gentle...
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Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a ..., Volume 11

Samuel Purchas - 1906 - 692 pages
...constrained not to ride so fast. Of twentie or thirtie Horses we had alwaies the worst, because we were Strangers. For every one tooke their choice of the best Horses before us. They provided me alwaies of a strong Horse, because I was very corpulent and heavy : but whether he ambled a gentle...
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The World and Its Discovery: A Description of the Continents Outside Europe ...

Henry Buswell Wetherill - 1914 - 330 pages
...for some days we had change of horses twice or thrice in a day ; sometimes we were two or three days together, not finding any people, and then we were constrained not to ride so fast. Of twenty or thirty horses we had always the worst, because we were strangers, for every one took their...
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in ...

Sir John Mandeville, Willem van Ruysbroeck, Odorico (da Pordenone) - 1915 - 446 pages
...some days we had change of horses twice or thrice in a day. Sometimes we travelled two or three days together, not finding any people, and then we were constrained not to ride so fast. Of twenty or thirty horses we had always the worst, because we were strangers. For every one took their...
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A Source-book of English Social History

Mary Evelyn Monckton Jones - 1922 - 220 pages
...Some days we had change of horses twice or thrice in a day. Sometimes we travelled two or three days together, not finding any people, and then we were constrained not to ride so fast. Of twenty or thirty horses we had always the worst, because we were strangers. For everyone took their...
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Fighting Merchantmen: (tales from Hakluyt)

Richard Hakluyt, Ralph Burland Bodilly - 1927 - 288 pages
...some dayes we had change of horses twise or thrise in a day. Sometimes we travailed two or three days together, not finding any people, and then we were...alwaies of a strong horse, because I was very corpulent and heavy : but whether he ambled a gentle pase or no, I durst not make any question. Neither yet durst...
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