Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern

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P.F. Collier, 1910 - 394 pages
An account of Egypt, by Herodotus, tr. by G.C. Macaulay.--Tacitus on Germany, tr. by T. Gordon.--Sir Francis Drake revived, by P. Nicols.--Sir Francis Drake's famous voyage round the world, by F. Pretty.--Drake's great Armada, by Captain W. Biggs.--Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to Newfoundland, by E. Hayes.--The discovery of Guiana, by Sir W. Raleigh.
 

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Page 372 - Ewaipanoma : they are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts, and that a long train of hair growetb.
Page 220 - And about six of the clock we came to her and boarded her, and shot at her three pieces of ordnance, and...
Page 304 - I will hasten to the end of this tragedy, which must be knit up in the person of our General. And as it was God's ordinance upon him, even so the vehement persuasion and entreaty of his friends could nothing avail to divert him of a wilful resolution of going through in his frigate ; which was overcharged upon the decks with fights, nettings, and small artillery, too cumbersome for so small a boat that was to pass through the ocean sea at that season of the year, when by course we might expect much...
Page 301 - At which very instant, even in winding about, there passed along between us and towards the land which we now forsook a very lion to our seeming, in shape, hair, and colour, not swimming after the manner of a beast by moving of his feet, but rather sliding upon the water with his whole body, excepting the legs, in sight, neither yet diving under, and again rising...
Page 358 - I could have returned a good quantity of gold ready cast, if I had not shot at another mark than present profit.
Page 313 - It became not the former fortune in which I once lived to go journies of picory; and it had sorted ill with the offices of honour, which by Her Majesty's grace I hold this day in England, to run from cape to cape, and from place to place, for the pillage of ordinary prizes.
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Page 221 - 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 370 - When we were come to the tops of the first hills of the plains adjoining to the river, we beheld that wonderful breach of waters which ran down Caroli; and might from that mountain see the river how it ran in three parts, above twenty miles off, and there appeared some ten or twelve overfalls in sight, every one as high over the other as a...
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