The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation: Made by Sea Or Overland to the Remote & Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Years, Volume 8J.M. Dent, 1907 |
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... clocke the same forenoone . Then had we sight of the land ahead , all along ( for it waxed cleere weather ) it sheweth a farre off like white cliffes , but is all sandy hilles , and bayes along the sea side . At one a clocke after noone ...
... clocke the same forenoone . Then had we sight of the land ahead , all along ( for it waxed cleere weather ) it sheweth a farre off like white cliffes , but is all sandy hilles , and bayes along the sea side . At one a clocke after noone ...
Page 131
... clocke at night we went about , and stoode off South southwest one watch , then the wind shrinked to the Southwest , that we could lye but South southwest sixe glasses , so that at three a clocke wee cast about , and lay Northwest sixe ...
... clocke at night we went about , and stoode off South southwest one watch , then the wind shrinked to the Southwest , that we could lye but South southwest sixe glasses , so that at three a clocke wee cast about , and lay Northwest sixe ...
Page 132
... clocke we got in within the yland , and there by mistaking of a sounding , our ship came aground betweene the yle and the maine , and there sate till 4. a clocke in the after- noone that it was halfe flood . The 30. day about 9. a clocke ...
... clocke we got in within the yland , and there by mistaking of a sounding , our ship came aground betweene the yle and the maine , and there sate till 4. a clocke in the after- noone that it was halfe flood . The 30. day about 9. a clocke ...
Contents
The second voyage of M William Hawkins to Brasil 1532 | 14 |
The voyage of M Stephan Hare in the Minion of London | 22 |
A Voyage of two Englishmen to the river of Plate in the com | 44 |
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