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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... hundred more of Gallies , and there taried for their whole companie , which being together were about two hundred & 50 sayle , taking their voyage for to surprise the Iland of Malta . The next day after I departed , I had the sight of ...
... hundred more of Gallies , and there taried for their whole companie , which being together were about two hundred & 50 sayle , taking their voyage for to surprise the Iland of Malta . The next day after I departed , I had the sight of ...
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... hundred Spanish souldiers , besides the rest which were taken prisoners , and made gallie slaves . This Castell is hard at the mouth of a channell called Boca de Cataro . The Venetians have a hold within the channell called Cataro ...
... hundred Spanish souldiers , besides the rest which were taken prisoners , and made gallie slaves . This Castell is hard at the mouth of a channell called Boca de Cataro . The Venetians have a hold within the channell called Cataro ...
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... hundred horsemen readie at an houres warning . They say the Turke hath assayed it with 100. Gallies , but he could never bring his purpose to passe . It is strange to mee how they should maintaine so many men in this Iland , for their ...
... hundred horsemen readie at an houres warning . They say the Turke hath assayed it with 100. Gallies , but he could never bring his purpose to passe . It is strange to mee how they should maintaine so many men in this Iland , for their ...
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... hundred thousand fighting men . We sayled betweene the Gozi , and Candia , and they are dis- tant from Candia 5 or 6 miles . The Candiots are strong men , and very good archers , and shoot neere the marke . This Ilande is from Zante 300 ...
... hundred thousand fighting men . We sayled betweene the Gozi , and Candia , and they are dis- tant from Candia 5 or 6 miles . The Candiots are strong men , and very good archers , and shoot neere the marke . This Ilande is from Zante 300 ...
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... hundred seventie & three , and had to wife one of the daughters of Venice , of the house of Cornari , the which family at this day hath great revenues in this Island , and by means of that mariage the Venetians chalenge the kingdom of ...
... hundred seventie & three , and had to wife one of the daughters of Venice , of the house of Cornari , the which family at this day hath great revenues in this Island , and by means of that mariage the Venetians chalenge the kingdom of ...
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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...