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" 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... "
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English ... - Page 333
by Richard Hakluyt - 1907 - 468 pages
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The Pocket magazine of classic and polite literature. [Continued ..., Volume 10

1822 - 460 pages
...that we might have thrust a sworde or any other weapon ill him, which we durst not doe for feare he should have overthrowen our shippe; and then I called my company together, and all of us shouted, and with the crie that we made he departed from us; there was as much above water of his backe as the...
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Arctic discovery and adventure, by the author of 'Brazil, its history ...

Arctic discovery - 1799 - 424 pages
...the monster is diverting, when compared with Scoresby's or Goodsir's. "The same day at a south-weste sunne, there was a monstrous whale aboord of us, so...called my company together, and all of us shouted, and with the crie that we made he departed from us; there was as much above water of his backe as the...
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The sea: its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. [4 vols., publ ...

Frederick Whymper - 1877 - 364 pages
...that we might have thrust a sworde or any other weapon in him, which we durst not doe for feare he should have overthrowen our shippe; and then I called my company together, and all of us shouted, and with the crie that we made he departed from us; there was as much above water of his backe as the...
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The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical ..., Volume 1

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld - 1881 - 578 pages
...1556:—"On St. James bis day, there was a monstrous whale aboord of U8, so neere to our side that wo might have thrust a sworde or any other weapon in him, which we durst not doe for feare he should have overthrowen our shippe; and then I called my company together, and all of us shouted,...
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The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical Review of ...

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld - 1882 - 838 pages
...dmeii Burroimgh's voyage in 1556 :—“ ( )n St. ,Jamn( S Imis (lay, there was a monstrous wlmale aboord of us, so neere to our side that we might have thrust. a sworde or any otimer weapon in him, which we (lurst not doe for feare ime should have ovei-— thrl weii our shippe...
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The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical Review of ...

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld - 1885 - 844 pages
...dangerous; for instance, in the account of Stephen Burrough's voyage in 1556: — "On St. James his day, there was a monstrous whale aboord of us, so neere...other weapon in him, which we durst not doe for feare he should have overthrowen our shippe; and then I called my company together, aud all of us shouted,...
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Whaling North and South

Frank Vigor Morley, J. S. Hodgson - 1926 - 328 pages
...honest folk in general confused Behemoth with the whale, believed one was tother, and acted accordingly. There was a monstrous Whale aboord of us, so neere...any other weapon in him, which we durst not doe for fear hee should have overthrowen our shippe: and then I called my company together, and all of us shouted,...
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Fighting Merchantmen: (tales from Hakluyt)

Richard Hakluyt, Ralph Burland Bodilly - 1927 - 288 pages
...of it " in a gale of wind from the North-North-East. On the 25th of July they had other adventures. "The same day at a Southwest sunne, there was a monstrous...called my company together, and all of us shouted, and with the crie that we made he departed from us : there was as much above water of his backe as...
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To the Arctic!: The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times

Jeannette Mirsky - 1970 - 400 pages
...gargantuan imagination, an island that rose and sank, that snorted and spouted, that was alive. A whale! "There was a monstrous whale aboord of us, so neere to our side that we might have thrust a sworde in him, which we durst not doe for feare hee should have overthrowen our ship ... all of us shouted,...
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Tudor England

Peter Brimacombe - 2004 - 104 pages
...MONSTER 'The same day, at a south-west sunne, there W3S 3 ITlOnstrOUS Whale aboard of us, so neare to our side that we might have thrust a SWOrde Or...him, which we durst not doe for feare hee should have overthrown our shippe: and then I called my company together, and all of us shouted, and with the crie...
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