Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America: Select Narratives from the 'Principal Navigations' of Hakluyt. 1st series, כרך 1Clarendon Press, 1893 - 280 עמודים |
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עמוד x - The purpose of the present chapter will be to trace the fortunes of the industry from the middle of the fourteenth century to the middle of the...
עמוד 193 - ... besought almighty God of his goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea.
עמוד 205 - ... of one man. So that the cause being thoroughly heard, and all things done in good order as...
עמוד 214 - Majestie at his returne would rest contented with this service, purposed to continue no longer upon the Spanish coasts, but began to consider and to consult of the best way for his Countrey.
עמוד 219 - Want ( mole) and the taile of a rat, being of great "length ; under her chinne on either side a bagge, into the "which she gathered her meate, when she hath filled her bellie "abroad.
עמוד 93 - London, 1576, where he was highly commended of all men for his great and notable attempt, but specially famous for the great hope he brought of the passage to Cataya.
עמוד 215 - These women are very obedient and serviceable to their husbands. After they were departed from us, they came and visited us the second time, and brought with them feathers and bags of...
עמוד 70 - And although in the beginning they seemed to be but small hurts, yet there hardly escaped any that had blood drawn of them, but died in strange sort, with their mouths shut some ten days before they died, and after their wounds were whole...
עמוד xlix - Divers Voyages touching the Discoverie of America, and the Islands adjacent unto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterwards by the Frenchmen and Britons: And certaine notes of advertisements for observations, necessarie for such as shall hereafter make the like attempt, With two mappes annexed hereunto, for the plainer understanding of the whole matter.
עמוד 219 - This country our Generall named Albion, and that for two causes ; the one in respect of the white bancks and cliffes, which lie toward the sea ; the other, that it might haue some affinity, euen in name also, with our own country, which was sometime so called.