The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation: Made by Sea Or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeeres, Volume 10James MacLehose and Sons, 1904 |
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Page 43
... farre to leeward : for setting our course to the West end of Hispaniola we fel with the middle of Jamaica , notwithstanding that to al mens sight it shewed a headland , but they were all deceived by the clouds that lay upon the land two ...
... farre to leeward : for setting our course to the West end of Hispaniola we fel with the middle of Jamaica , notwithstanding that to al mens sight it shewed a headland , but they were all deceived by the clouds that lay upon the land two ...
Page 44
... and also for that being ignorant of the force of the current , he could not beleeve he was so farre driven to leeward , and therfore setting his course to Jamaica , and after certaine dayes not finding the same 44 A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES.
... and also for that being ignorant of the force of the current , he could not beleeve he was so farre driven to leeward , and therfore setting his course to Jamaica , and after certaine dayes not finding the same 44 A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES.
Page 46
... Cuba , whither we came the sixt A hill called day , and weathered as farre as the Table , being a hill so called , because of the forme thereof : here we lay the Table . 1565 . Havana . off and on all night , 46 A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES.
... Cuba , whither we came the sixt A hill called day , and weathered as farre as the Table , being a hill so called , because of the forme thereof : here we lay the Table . 1565 . Havana . off and on all night , 46 A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES.
Page 53
... farre as any of the rest . In their fight , being in the woods , they use a marvellous pollicie for their owne safegard , which is by clasping a tree in their armes , and yet shooting notwithstanding : this policy they used with the ...
... farre as any of the rest . In their fight , being in the woods , they use a marvellous pollicie for their owne safegard , which is by clasping a tree in their armes , and yet shooting notwithstanding : this policy they used with the ...
Page 60
... farre , because of the drying of their wings , which serve them not to flie but when they are moist , and therefore when they can flie no further they fall into the water , and having wet their wings , take a new flight againe . These ...
... farre , because of the drying of their wings , which serve them not to flie but when they are moist , and therefore when they can flie no further they fall into the water , and having wet their wings , take a new flight againe . These ...
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