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 YearesJ.M. Dent, 1907 - 468 pages |
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... & DRAMA BIOGRAPHY ROMANCE IN TWO STYLES OF BINDING , CLOTH , FLAT BACK , COLOURED TOP , AND LEATHER , ROUND CORNERS , GILT TOP . LONDON : J. M. DENT & CO . NEW YORK : E. P. DUTTON & CO . THE WISE MAN ALL THE WORLD'S CASSOIL BEN JONSON.
... & DRAMA BIOGRAPHY ROMANCE IN TWO STYLES OF BINDING , CLOTH , FLAT BACK , COLOURED TOP , AND LEATHER , ROUND CORNERS , GILT TOP . LONDON : J. M. DENT & CO . NEW YORK : E. P. DUTTON & CO . THE WISE MAN ALL THE WORLD'S CASSOIL BEN JONSON.
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... clothing , mostly of canvas and calico , with thick " rug " gowns , which were sold to the men who needed them . Hammocks appear to have been issued towards the end of the 16th century ; but till then , and perhaps for long afterwards ...
... clothing , mostly of canvas and calico , with thick " rug " gowns , which were sold to the men who needed them . Hammocks appear to have been issued towards the end of the 16th century ; but till then , and perhaps for long afterwards ...
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... clothes , were often unclean in habit and person . They suffered much from epidemics of scurvy , of typhus or gaol fever , and of a kind of acute dysentery . caused , or thought to be caused , by the beer . The mortality aboard the ...
... clothes , were often unclean in habit and person . They suffered much from epidemics of scurvy , of typhus or gaol fever , and of a kind of acute dysentery . caused , or thought to be caused , by the beer . The mortality aboard the ...
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... cloth was called a pavesse , or war - girdle , or close fight . It was usually painted with coats of arms in gay colours . The tops were rigged with similar cloths . Under the masts , nettings were spread , to catch wreck falling from ...
... cloth was called a pavesse , or war - girdle , or close fight . It was usually painted with coats of arms in gay colours . The tops were rigged with similar cloths . Under the masts , nettings were spread , to catch wreck falling from ...
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... cloth of the same colour , took his station on the poop , ready to sound a point before the enemy was hailed . Other curious details of sea - customs , and of the ordering of ships at sea , may be read in Hakluyt's book , especially in ...
... cloth of the same colour , took his station on the poop , ready to sound a point before the enemy was hailed . Other curious details of sea - customs , and of the ordering of ships at sea , may be read in Hakluyt's book , especially in ...
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aboord aforesaid alwayes ambassadours anker authoritie Boghar called Cape Cape Verde caried Caspian sea castle cause citie coast Colmogro comming common communaltie countrey dayes divers dominions doth Duke East Emperour fadome farre favour forren Godred governour grace granted hath heires himselfe honour Howbeit Hugh Willoughbie Islands Isle Item John king Edward king Henry king of England king of Norway kingdome Knight knowen leagues letters likewise litle lord of Ireland lord the king Lordship Majestie maner marchandises Mariners Master generall mighty moneth Mosco Navigation neere noble North Olavus passe Portingal Ports present prince principall Realme reigne Richard Richard Hakluyt river Russes Russia sailed sayd selfe sent shal shalbe shewed shippes ships shoare sonne soveraigne Lord subjects summe sunne Tartars thence thereof things towne traffike traffique travaile unto verstes Vologda voyage wares warres wherein William William Esturmy winde worthy yeere yere
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Page ii - FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ESSAYS ^ ORATORY POETRY & DRAMA BIOGRAPHY ROMANCE IN TWO STYLES OF BINDING, CLOTH, FLAT BACK, COLOURED TOP, AND LEATHER, ROUND CORNERS, GILT TOP. LONDON: JM DENT & CO. NEW YORK : EP BUTTON & CO.
Page 164 - grace of God king of England and of France, and Lord of Ireland: to all to whom these present letters shall come, sendeth greeting. Know ye, that
Page 230 - For the God of heaven and earth greatly providing for mankinde, would not that all things should be found in one region, to the ende that one should have neede of another, that by this meanes friendship might be established among all men, and every one seeke to
Page ii - WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OP THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES TO BE COMPRISED UNDER THE FOLLOWING TWELVE HEADINGS: TRAVEL ? SCIENCE ^ FICTION THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY HISTORY * CLASSICAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ESSAYS ^ ORATORY POETRY & DRAMA BIOGRAPHY ROMANCE IN TWO STYLES OF BINDING, CLOTH, FLAT BACK, COLOURED TOP, AND LEATHER, ROUND CORNERS, GILT TOP. LONDON: JM DENT & CO. NEW YORK : EP BUTTON & CO.
Page 175 - THE great Galees of Venice and Florence Be well laden with things of complacence, All spicery and of grossers ware: With sweete wines all maner of chaffare, Apes, and Japes, and marmusets tayled, Nifles and trifles that little have avayled : And things with which they fetely blere our eye: With things not
Page 220 - Ordinances, instructions, and advertisements of and for the direction of the intended voyage for Cathay, compiled, made, and delivered by the right worshipfull M. Sebastian Cabota Esquier, governour of the mysterie and companie of the Marchants adventurers for the
Page 273 - Novogorode. NEXT unto Mosco, the Citie of Novogorode is reputed the chiefest of Russia: for although it be in Majestie inferior to it, yet in greatnesse it goeth beyond it. It is the chiefest and greatest Marte Towne of all Moscovie : and albeit the Emperours seate is not there, but at Mosco, yet the commodiousnesse of the river,
Page 255 - last concluded that three shippes should bee prepared and furnished out, for the search and discoverie of the Northerne part of the world, to open a way and passage to our men for travaile to newe and unknowen kingdomes.
Page 226 - victuals sufficient prosperously. 27 Item the names of the people of every Island, are to be taken in writing, with the commodities, and incommodities of the same, their natures, qualities, and dispositions, the site of the same, and what things they are most desirous of, & what commodities they wil most willingly depart with, & what
Page 333 - The same day at a Southwest sunne, there was a monstrous Whale aboord of us, so neere to our side that we might have thrust a sworde or any other weapon in him, which we durst not doe for feare hee should have overthrowen our shippe: and then I called my company together, and all of us shouted,