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, כרך 5

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J. MacLehose and sons, 1904
 

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עמוד 425 - Portugal, which be foure, fiue, 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. Oftentimes they lade one in Goa, the rest goe to Cochin which is from Goa an hundred leagues southward. Goa standeth in the countrey of Hidalcan, who lieth in the countrey sixe or seuen dayes iourney.
עמוד 446 - ... 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.
עמוד 433 - 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.
עמוד 446 - They be made round, like a sugar-loaf; some are as high as a church, very broad beneath; some a quarter of a mile in compass : within they be all earth, done about with stone.
עמוד 454 - Portugals have their fort, with an hundred thousand men, and many elephants. But they be naked people all of them ; yet many of them be good with their pieces which be muskets. When the king talketh with any man, he...
עמוד 428 - Agra and Fatepore are two very great Cities, either of them much greater then London, and very populous. Betweene Agra and Fatepore are twelve miles, and all the way is a Market of victuals and other things, as full as though a man were still in a Towne, and so many people as if a man were in a Market.
עמוד 444 - 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...
עמוד 442 - ... house. This king in his title is called the king of the white elephants. If any other king have one, and will not send it him, he will make warre with him for it ; for he had rather lose a great part of his kingdome then not to conquere him.
עמוד 451 - ... egge. Some are of brasse and some of silver ; but those of silver be for the king and his noble men. These are gilded and made with great cunning, and ring like a litle bell.
עמוד 435 - Prophet. which sate upon an Horse in the Market place, and made as though he slept, and many of the people came and touched his feet with their hands, and then kissed their hands.

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