Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America: Select Narratives from the 'Principal Navigations' of Hakluyt. 1st series, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1893 - 280 pages |
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Page x - The purpose of the present chapter will be to trace the fortunes of the industry from the middle of the fourteenth century to the middle of the...
Page 193 - ... besought almighty God of his goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea.
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Page 214 - Majestie at his returne would rest contented with this service, purposed to continue no longer upon the Spanish coasts, but began to consider and to consult of the best way for his Countrey.
Page 219 - Want ( mole) and the taile of a rat, being of great "length ; under her chinne on either side a bagge, into the "which she gathered her meate, when she hath filled her bellie "abroad.
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Page xlix - Divers Voyages touching the Discoverie of America, and the Islands adjacent unto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterwards by the Frenchmen and Britons: And certaine notes of advertisements for observations, necessarie for such as shall hereafter make the like attempt, With two mappes annexed hereunto, for the plainer understanding of the whole matter.
Page 219 - This country our Generall named Albion, and that for two causes ; the one in respect of the white bancks and cliffes, which lie toward the sea ; the other, that it might haue some affinity, euen in name also, with our own country, which was sometime so called.