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" At which very instant, even in winding about, there passed along between us and towards the land which we now forsook a very lion to our seeming, in shape, hair, and colour, not swimming after the manner of a beast by moving of his feet, but rather sliding... "
Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen - Page 314
by Henry Frowde, M.A., Edited by Edward John Payne with Notes by C. Raymond Beazley - 1907
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Naufragia Or Historical Memoirs of Shipwrecks and of the ..., Volume 1

James Stanier Clarke - 1805 - 454 pages
...euen in winding about, there passed along betweene TS and towards the Land, which wee now forsooke, a very Lion, to our seeming, in shape, hair, and colour ; not swimming, after the maner of a Beast, by moouing of his feete, but rather sliding vpon the Water with his whole body, excepting...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 27

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 pages
...present with what he had done, and to lay off for England. " So upon Saturday, in the afternoon, the 31st still lapse of ages. All that the land, which we now forsook, a very lion, to our »ecming, in shape, hair, and color; not swimming...
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The Life and Times of Sir Walter Ralegh: With Copious Extracts from His ...

Charles Whitehead - 1854 - 344 pages
...reputed a man of veracity, and highly respected: — " So upon Saturday, in the afternoon the 31st August, we changed our course, and returned back for...very instant, even in winding about, there passed between us, and towards the land which we now forsook, a very lion to our seeming, in shape, hair,...
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Short Studies on Great Subjects

James Anthony Froude - 1868 - 458 pages
...and to lay off for England. .So upon Saturday, in the afternoon, the 3Ist of August, we changed '>ur course, and returned back for England, at which very...in winding about, there passed along between us and the land, which we now forsook, a very lion, to our seeming, in shape, hair, and colour ; not swimming...
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Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert).: A Booke of ...

Frederick James Furnivall - 1869 - 328 pages
...instant, euen in winding about, there passed along betweene vs and towards the land which we now forsooke, a very lion, to our seeming, in shape, hair, and colour ; not swimming after the maner of a beast by moouing of his feete, but rather sliding vpon the water with his whole body, excepting...
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Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert): A Booke of Precedence ...

Sir Humphrey Gilbert - 1869 - 322 pages
...instant, euen in winding about, there passed along betweene vs and towards the land which we now forsooke, a very lion, to our seeming, in shape, hair, and colour ; not swimming after the maner of a beast by moouing of his feete, but rather sliding vpon the water with his whole body, excepting...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed ..., Volumes 1-2

Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...present with what he had done, and to lay off for England. "So upon Saturday, in the afternoon, the 31st ich he was tenant. Unoccupied, I call it, for there...nor any furniture, indeed, except a table, and a fe the land, which we now forsook, a very lion, to our seeming, in shape, hair, and colour; not swimming...
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Short Studies on Great Subjects, Volume 2

James Anthony Froude - 1873 - 540 pages
...present with what he had done, and to lay off for England. So upon Saturday, in the afternoon, the 3 1 st of August, we changed our course, and returned back...even in winding about, there passed along between HS and the land, which we now forsook, a very lion, to our seeming, in shape, hair, and color; not...
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Young Folks' Book of American Explorers

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1877 - 446 pages
...afterwards given to a war vessel, built also for speed. So, upon Saturday, in the afternoon, the 3ist of August, we changed our course, and returned back...in winding about, there passed along between us and the land which we now forsook, a very lion, to our seeming, in shape, hair, and color ; not swimming...
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A Book of American Explorers

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1877 - 408 pages
...afterwards given to a war vessel, built also for speed. So, upon Saturday, in the afternoon, the 31st of August, we changed our course, and returned back...England, at which very instant, even in winding about, 'here passed along between us and the land which we n°w forsook, a very lion, to our seeming, in shape,...
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