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 11J. MacLehose and sons, 1904 |
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aboord admirall againe anker Arica barke boate Cabo Cabo Frio called Canoas Cape Cape Blanco Cape Froward Captaine caravel caried Chili clocke coast of Brasil comming Coray countrey course day wee dayes degr degrees Diego de Almagro divers Drake East eight Englishmen entred fadoms water farre fathoms Fernambuck fresh water Generall golde governour harbour hath Iago Iland Indians inhabited Island Isle Item Java king land latitude leagues lieth lyeth Majestie marchants Master moneth mouth neere Negros night North Northeast Northward Northwest Paita Panama Peru Pilot pinnesse Port Desire Port famine Portugall Portugals Quabacondono river of Plate Santos sayd sayle sent shewed ship shippe shoare sholdes shore shot side souldiers South sea Southward Southwest Spaine Spaniards standeth Streights of Magellan Sunne thence thou shalt tooke towne tunnes unto victuals voyage warre wee departed wee found West whereof whereupon winde yeere yland
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Page 401 - Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.
Page 111 - 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 97 - 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 118 - 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 ii - God so to blesse, that in the ende we cleared our selves most happily of the danger. 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 117 - 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 87 - Drake into the South sea, and therehence about the whole Globe of the earth, begun in the yeere of our Lord, 1577.
Page 104 - They of the towne being not above 9. housholds, presently fled away and abandoned the towne. Our generall manned his boate, and the Spanish ships boate, and went to the Towne, and being come to it, we rifled it, and came to a small chappell which wee entred, and found therein a silver chalice, two cruets, and one altar-cloth, the spoyle whereof our Generall gave to M. Fletcher his minister.
Page 105 - 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 107 - The men go naked; the women take bulrushes, and kemb them after the manner of hemp, and thereof make their loose garments, which, being knit about their middles, hang down about their hips, having also about their shoulders a skin of deer, with the hair 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.