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The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake: Being His Next Voyage to that to ... - Page xlv
by Sir Francis Drake, William Sandya Wright Vaux - 1854 - 295 pages
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The English Circumnavigators: The Most Remarkable Voyages Round the World by ...

David Laing Purves - 1874 - 856 pages
...ready framed, but carried aboard in pieces, to be new set up in smoother water when occasion served. Neither had he omitted to make provision also for...delight, carrying to this purpose with him expert musicians, rich furniture (all the vessels for his table, yea, many belonging even to the cook-room,...
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The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 4

1887 - 844 pages
...new set up in smoother water, when occasion served. Neither had he omitted to make provision also lor ornament and delight, carrying to this purpose with...expert musitians, rich furniture (all the vessels fur his table, yea, many belonging even to the Cookeroome, being of pure silver), and divers shewes...
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Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 15

Leslie Stephen - 1888 - 484 pages
...and carried, as in the former voyage, some pinnaces in pieces, to be set up when occasion served. ' Neither had he omitted to make provision also for...delight, carrying to this purpose with him expert musicians, rich furniture (all the vessels for his table, yea, many belonging even to the cook room,...
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The Building of the Empire: The Story of England's Growth from Elizabeth to ...

Alfred Thomas Story - 1898 - 330 pages
...hundred and sixty-four men, "gentlemen and sailors ; " * and we are told by Vaux that he did not omit " to make provision also for ornament and delight, carrying to this purpose with him expert musicians, rich furniture (all the vessels for his table, yea, many belonging to the cook-room being...
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Drake and the Tudor Navy: With a History of the Rise of England as ..., Volume 1

Julian Stafford Corbett - 1898 - 522 pages
...weapons of all sorts in great abundance. ' Neither had he omitted,' says the Authorised Narrative, ' to make provision also for ornament and delight, carrying to this purpose with him expert musicians, rich furniture (all the vessels for his table, yea many belonging even to the cook-room,...
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New Light on Drake: A Collection of Documents Relating to His Voyage of ...

Zelia Nuttall - 1914 - 594 pages
...Drake's preparations for the voyage : " neither did he omit to make provision also for ornament or delight, carrying to this purpose with him expert...(all the vessels for his table, yea, many belonging even to the Cooke-room being of pure silver) and divers shewes of all sorts of curious workmanship,...
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New Light on Drake: A Collection of Documents Relating to His ..., Volume 120

Zelia Nuttall - 1914 - 614 pages
...Drake's preparations for the voyage : " neither did he omit to make provision also for ornament or delight, carrying to this purpose with him expert...(all the vessels for his table, yea, many belonging even to the Cooke-room being of pure silver) and divers shewes of all sorts of curious workmanship,...
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The Earliest Voyages Round the World, 1519-1617

Philip Frederick Alexander - 1916 - 262 pages
...ready framed, but carried aboard in pieces, to be new set up in smoother water, when occasion served. Neither had he omitted to make provision also for...delight, carrying to this purpose with him expert musicians, rich furniture... and divers shows of all sorts of curious workmanship." Sir Francis Drake...
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A History of California: The Spanish Period

Charles Edward Chapman - 1921 - 562 pages
...an ordinary buccaneering adventure, for "neither did he omit to make provision also for ornament or delight, carrying to this purpose with him expert...(all the vessels for his table, yea, many belonging even to the Cooke-room being of pure silver) and divers shewes of all sorts of curious workmanship,...
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The Mariner's Mirror, Volume 9

Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin - 1923 - 464 pages
...before this, when Drake set out on his voyage round the World (1577), he made elaborate provision " for ornament and delight, carrying to this purpose with him, expert musitians," . . . and from the report made by one of his Spanish prisoners we learn that he dined and supped in...
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