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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... faire moone shine night , & went out . Then my 3 marriners made such requests unto the rest of my men to come aborde , as I was constrained to take them in . And so with good wind we put into the Archipelago , & being among the Ilands ...
... faire moone shine night , & went out . Then my 3 marriners made such requests unto the rest of my men to come aborde , as I was constrained to take them in . And so with good wind we put into the Archipelago , & being among the Ilands ...
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... faire that we pre- sently set sayle and went our course , and left on the right hand of us the forenamed Iland , and on the left hand betweene us and the maine the Iland of Zupanna , and within a mile of that under the maine by East ...
... faire that we pre- sently set sayle and went our course , and left on the right hand of us the forenamed Iland , and on the left hand betweene us and the maine the Iland of Zupanna , and within a mile of that under the maine by East ...
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... faire buildings , but nothing plentie save wine onely . This night toward sunne set it waxed calme , and we sayled little or nothing . The 24 we were past Ragusa 14 miles , and there we mette with two Venetian ships , which came from ...
... faire buildings , but nothing plentie save wine onely . This night toward sunne set it waxed calme , and we sayled little or nothing . The 24 we were past Ragusa 14 miles , and there we mette with two Venetian ships , which came from ...
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... faire towne strongly situated on a hill , of the which hill the Iland beareth her name , it hath also a very strong fortresse or Castle , and plentie of corne and wine , their language is Greeke , it is distant from the maine of Morea ...
... faire towne strongly situated on a hill , of the which hill the Iland beareth her name , it hath also a very strong fortresse or Castle , and plentie of corne and wine , their language is Greeke , it is distant from the maine of Morea ...
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... faire white salt , without any further art or labour , for it is only done by the great heate of the sunne . This the Venetians have , and doe maintaine to the use of S. Marke , and the Venetian ships that come to this Iland are bound ...
... faire white salt , without any further art or labour , for it is only done by the great heate of the sunne . This the Venetians have , and doe maintaine to the use of S. Marke , and the Venetian ships that come to this Iland are bound ...
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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 304 - ... their word. If the broker pay you not at his day, you may take him home, and keep him in your house, which is a great shame for him. And if he pay you not presently, you may take his wife and children, and his slaves, and bind them at your door, and set them in the sun ; for this is the law of the country.
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...