 | Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1881 - 290 pages
...height and distance of the castle wall, so as to find the range " for the better levelling of his piece. But as he was about the same, he received a shot from...immediately". Purchas says : — " In the Indies he dyed, in the late Ormus businesse, slaine in fight with a shot, as hee was trying his mathematicall... | |
 | 1885 - 480 pages
...measure its height and distance, received his death-wound. According to the account given by Purchas, ' he received a shot from the castle into his belly,...wherewith he gave three leaps, and died immediately.' His death made little difference to the result of the siege; Kishm surrendered on 1 Feb.. and Ormuz... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1885 - 490 pages
...its height • and distance, received his death-wound. According to the account given by Purchas, ' he received a shot from the castle into his belly, wherewith he gave three leaps, nnd died immediately.' His death made little difference to the result of the siege ; Kishm surrendered... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1896 - 400 pages
...went ashore with his instruments to determine the height and distance of the castle wall, in order to find the range, ' but, as he was about the same,...wherewith he gave three leaps, and died immediately.' Baffin, Davis, and Hudson, the most intrepid of our early navigators, were all cut off in their prime... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1898 - 422 pages
...went ashore with his instruments to determine the height and distance of the castle wall, in order to find the range, ' but, as he was about the same,...from the castle into his belly, wherewith he gave thri'C leaps, and died immediately.' Baffin, Davis, and Hudson, the most intrepid of our early navigators,... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1898 - 420 pages
...instruments to determine the height and distance of the castle wall, in order to find the range, ' hut, as he was about the same, he received a shot from the castle inlo his belly, wherewith he gave time leaps, and died immediately.' Baffin, Davis, and Hudson, the... | |
 | Beckles Willson - 1903 - 496 pages
...took part in the siege of Ormuz, where he was mortally wounded, in January, 1622. Purchas tells us " he received a shot from the Castle into his belly,...wherewith he gave three leaps and died immediately". His widow, being in years and deaf, made an unequal choice for her second husband, a man " not of the... | |
 | James Alexander Williamson - 1922 - 704 pages
...at the siege of Ormuz. Whilst taking ranges for the artillery with his mathematical instruments, " he received a shot from the castle into his belly,...wherewith he gave three leaps, and died immediately." The North West Passage Company had now well-nigh exhausted its hopes and its capital. For two years... | |
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But as he was about the same, he received a shot from the castle into his belly, wherewith he gave three leaps, and died immediately". 