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 Yeares, Volume 4J.M. Dent & Sons, 1907 |
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... fishing , during the moneth of November : and all that coast is very low lands . we went from Cape de las Barbas Southsouthwest , and Southwest and by South , till we brought our selves in twentie degrees and a halfe , reckoning our ...
... fishing , during the moneth of November : and all that coast is very low lands . we went from Cape de las Barbas Southsouthwest , and Southwest and by South , till we brought our selves in twentie degrees and a halfe , reckoning our ...
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... fish , and were sometimes subdued by the warres of great Alexander . Furthermore the Aethiopians called Rhapsii , & Anthropophagi , yt are accustomed to eat mans flesh , inhabite the regions neere unto the mountains called Montes Lunæ ...
... fish , and were sometimes subdued by the warres of great Alexander . Furthermore the Aethiopians called Rhapsii , & Anthropophagi , yt are accustomed to eat mans flesh , inhabite the regions neere unto the mountains called Montes Lunæ ...
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... fishes as they take , whereof they have great plenty . There are also such flying fishes as are seene in the sea of the West Indies . Our men salted of their fishes , hoping to provide store thereof : but they would take no salt , and ...
... fishes as they take , whereof they have great plenty . There are also such flying fishes as are seene in the sea of the West Indies . Our men salted of their fishes , hoping to provide store thereof : but they would take no salt , and ...
Page 68
... fish which the Portugals commonly fish for upon that coast , which they cal Pergosses , the Frenchmen call them Saders , and our men salt - water breames . Before the clearing up of the fogge , the shippe which we followed shaped us ...
... fish which the Portugals commonly fish for upon that coast , which they cal Pergosses , the Frenchmen call them Saders , and our men salt - water breames . Before the clearing up of the fogge , the shippe which we followed shaped us ...
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... fishing , and we sent our Skiffe to him with five men , and all without any weapon saving their Oares . The Carvell ... fish as will serve twentie men a day . For these things , and for some wine which wee dranke aboorde of them , and ...
... fishing , and we sent our Skiffe to him with five men , and all without any weapon saving their Oares . The Carvell ... fish as will serve twentie men a day . For these things , and for some wine which wee dranke aboorde of them , and ...
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Page 259 - of our speciall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere motion have given and granted, and by these presents for us, our heires and successors, doe give and grant unto the saide Earles of Warwike and Leicester, Thomas Starkie, Jerard Gore the elder, Arthur Atie gentleman, Alexander Avenon, Richard Staper, William Jennings, Arthur Dawbenie,
Page 47 - and Nigritae, which we now call Moores, Moorens, or Negroes, a people of beastly living, without a God, lawe, religion, or common wealth, and so scorched and vexed with the heat of the sunne, that in many places they curse it when it riseth. Of the regions and people about the inner Libya (called Libya interior) Gemma Phrysius
Page 129 - without the road, a French ship called the green Dragon of Newhaven, whereof was captaine one Bon Temps came in, who saluted us after the maner of the sea, with certaine pieces of ordinance, and we resaluted him with the like againe : with whom having communication, he declared that hee had bene at the
Page 365 - and foming surges of the sea came rowling like mountaines one after another, and overraked the waste of the shippe like a mightie river running over it, whereas in faire weather it was neere 20. foote above the water, that nowe wee might cry out with the princely Prophet
Page 366 - the land & winde, where we were somewhat more quiet, but (that being no safe harbour to ride in) the next morning wee went about to weigh anker, but having some of our men hurt at the Capsten, wee were faine to give over and leave it behinde, holding on our course to
Page 274 - tooke, bestowing the people thereof in certaine vessels well furnished with victuals, and sending them courteously home into their Countrey : and this was the first Carak that ever was taken comming foorth of the East Indies; which the Portugals tooke for an evil signe, because the ship bare the Kings owne name.
Page 368 - among them that our Maiors have with us in England, and hath his Sergeants to attend upon him, and beare the Mace before him as our Maiors. We were first intertained at the Soveraignes house, which was one of those 4. that withstood the Erle of Desmond in his rebellion. They
Page 316 - with the Kings armes, and borne before the Generall. How many two thousand men (for of so many consisted our vantgard) might kill in pursuit of foure sundry parties, so many you may imagine fell before us that day. And to make the number more great, our men having given over the execution, and returning to their