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 Yeares, Volume 3J.M. Dent & Sons, 1907 |
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... againe to come with the Iland in the morning betimes . The foresaid smal vessels which came in my company , departed from me to win the shore , to get in ye night , but upon a sudden they espied 3 foystes of Turkes comming upon them to ...
... againe to come with the Iland in the morning betimes . The foresaid smal vessels which came in my company , departed from me to win the shore , to get in ye night , but upon a sudden they espied 3 foystes of Turkes comming upon them to ...
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... againe assoone as the armie was past . They would drinke wine out of all measure . Then the armie being past , I laded my shippe with wines and other things : and so after i had that which I left in Chio , I departed for Messina . In ...
... againe assoone as the armie was past . They would drinke wine out of all measure . Then the armie being past , I laded my shippe with wines and other things : and so after i had that which I left in Chio , I departed for Messina . In ...
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... againe to Cades , and then I needed no Pilot . And so from thence I came to London with the shippe and goods in safetie , God be praysed . And all those Mariners that were in my sayd shippe , which were , besides boyes , three- score ...
... againe to Cades , and then I needed no Pilot . And so from thence I came to London with the shippe and goods in safetie , God be praysed . And all those Mariners that were in my sayd shippe , which were , besides boyes , three- score ...
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... againe to Ragusa , for to know the newes of the Turkes armie , but the winde blew so hard and contrary , that we could not . This citie of Ragusa paieth tribute to the Turke yerely fourteene thousand Sechinos , and every Sechino is of ...
... againe to Ragusa , for to know the newes of the Turkes armie , but the winde blew so hard and contrary , that we could not . This citie of Ragusa paieth tribute to the Turke yerely fourteene thousand Sechinos , and every Sechino is of ...
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... againe , they went up a little hill standing hard by the brinke , whereon as they thought they sawe the hill of Jerusalem , by the which the Pilot knew ( after his judgement ) that wee were past our port . And so this place where we ...
... againe , they went up a little hill standing hard by the brinke , whereon as they thought they sawe the hill of Jerusalem , by the which the Pilot knew ( after his judgement ) that wee were past our port . And so this place where we ...
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aboord aforesaid againe Aleppo Alexandria alwayes Ambassadour anker Babylon Balsara barke Bengala boat called Cambaia Candia Captaine Carovan cary castle Cephalonia Chaul Chio Christians citie cloth coast Cochin commandement commeth comming Constantinople Consul contrary countrey custome dayes journey depart divers dominions doth Eliphants England English faire foorth gallies goeth golde Governour and companie Grand Signior graunt hath highnesse Iland Indies John Fox John Newbery king kingdome lade land letters Levant litle Majestie Malacca maner marchandise marchants Master Mecca miles moneth monson Moores neere night Ormus Ormuz passed Pegu port Portugales Portugals prison Ralph Fitch realme Richard river saile sayd sayd Governour sayled sent Serifo shewed ship shippe side sonne sort standeth sunne thence thereof thing thither towne trade traffike traffique Tripolis Turkes unto Venetians Venice victuals voyage warre wherein winde yeere yere Zante
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Page 286 - Here bee many marchants of all nations. And the Fleete which commeth every yeere from Portugal, which be foure, five, or sixe great shippes, commeth first hither. And they come for the most part in September, and remaine there fortie or fiftie dayes ; and then goe to Cochin, where they lade their Pepper for Portugall.
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Page 293 - In their Winter, which is our May, the men weare quilted gownes of cotton like to our mattraces and quilted caps like to our great Grocers morters, with a slit to looke out at, and so tied downe beneath their eares.
Page 277 - Ormus, who, certaine dayes after our comming from thence, sent for mee into his chamber, and there beganne to demaund of me many things, to the which I answered : and amongst the rest, he said, that Master Drake was sent out of England with many ships, and came to Maluco, and there laded cloves, and finding a gallion there of the kings of Portugall, hee caused two pieces of his greatest ordinance to be shot at the same...
Page 302 - These people do eat roots, herbs, leaves, dogs, cats, rats, serpents and snakes ; they refuse almost nothing. When the king rideth abroad he rideth with a great guard and many noblemen ; oftentimes upon an elephant with a fine castle upon him very fairly gilded with gold, and sometimes upon a great frame like an...
Page 301 - ... runne in, for it is like a wood ; and when they be in, the gate doth shut. Afterward they get out the female ; and when the male seeth that he is left alone, he weepeth and crieth, and runneth against the...