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 10J. Maclehose and Sons, 1904 |
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Page xvi
... Wood says of him : This Robert Dudley was a compleat gentleman in all suitable employments , an exact seaman , a good navigator , an excellent architect , mathe- matician , physician , chymist , and what not . He was a handsome ...
... Wood says of him : This Robert Dudley was a compleat gentleman in all suitable employments , an exact seaman , a good navigator , an excellent architect , mathe- matician , physician , chymist , and what not . He was a handsome ...
Page 16
... woods , that it booted them not to follow : so going on their way forward till they came to a river , which they could not passe over , they espied on the otherside two men , who with their bowes and arrowes shot terribly at them ...
... woods , that it booted them not to follow : so going on their way forward till they came to a river , which they could not passe over , they espied on the otherside two men , who with their bowes and arrowes shot terribly at them ...
Page 18
... wood , digged out like a trough but of a good proportion , being about 8 yards long , and one in breadth , having a beakhead and a sterne very proportionably made , and on the out side artifically carved , and painted red and blewe ...
... wood , digged out like a trough but of a good proportion , being about 8 yards long , and one in breadth , having a beakhead and a sterne very proportionably made , and on the out side artifically carved , and painted red and blewe ...
Page 30
... wood in the ground , and also small iron pikes to mischiefe their horses , wherein they shew themselves politique warriers . They have more abundance of golde then all the Spaniards have , and live upon the mountaines where the Mines ...
... wood in the ground , and also small iron pikes to mischiefe their horses , wherein they shew themselves politique warriers . They have more abundance of golde then all the Spaniards have , and live upon the mountaines where the Mines ...
Page 37
... woods and mountaines , that they eate and destroy 60000. a yeere , and yet small lacke found of them . And no marveile , for the said yland is almost as bigge as all England , and being the first place that was founde of all the Indies ...
... woods and mountaines , that they eate and destroy 60000. a yeere , and yet small lacke found of them . And no marveile , for the said yland is almost as bigge as all England , and being the first place that was founde of all the Indies ...
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