On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English Forays on the Isthmus of Darien : with a Description of the Buccaneers and a Short Account of Old-time Ships and SailorsMacmillan, 1906 - 344 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
aboard adventurers anchor anchorage arms ashore attack Bartholomew Sharp Basil Ringrose boats buccaneers cannon canoas Captain Morgan carried Cartagena casks castle Chagres Chagres River charge CHIG Cimmeroons coast colours command crew cruise Dampier deck Drake English fight fire fleet French frigate galleon garrison gold Governor gunner guns hands harbour Hispaniola huts Indians island isthmus Jamaica John Oxenham John Watling killed land logwood Main marched Maroons meat miles Monson morning mules musketeers negroes night Nombre de Dios oars Panama party pieces of eight pinnaces pirates plunder Port Royal Porto Bello powder prisoners raid Richard Sawkins Ringrose river rowed sack sailors salt Santa Katalina Sawkins sent set sail Sharp ship ship's shot silver slaves soldiers soon Spaniards Spanish stayed stood taken took town treasure trees troops Venta Cruz vessels victuals volley voyage wind wood wounded
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 53 - ... besought Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea.
עמוד 53 - OXNAM especially with this his petition and purpose, if it would please GOD to grant him that happiness. Who understanding it, presently protested, that " unless our Captain did beat him from his company, he would follow him, by GOD's grace!
עמוד 48 - Captain's appointment he was ripped open by the surgeon, who found his liver swollen, his heart as it were sodden, and his guts all fair. This was the first and last experiment that our Captain made of anatomy in this voyage.
עמוד 52 - ... long longed for. Here was that goodly and great high Tree, in which they had cut and made divers steps, to ascend up near unto the top, where they had also made a convenient bower, wherein ten or twelve men might easily sit...
עמוד 30 - ... at first, to leave his ship in, which was called by our Captain, Port Plenty; by reason we brought in thither continually all manner store of good victuals, which we took, going that way by sea, for the victualling of Cartagena and Nombre de Dios as also the Fleets going and coming out of Spain. So that if we had been two thousand, yea three thousand persons, we might with our pinnaces easily have...
עמוד 18 - And therefore he advised the Governor " to hold open his eyes! for before he departed, if GOD lent him life and leave, he meant to reap some of their harvest, which they get out of the earth, and send into Spain to trouble all the earth!
עמוד 200 - ... very richly laden with all the King's plate and great quantity of riches of gold, pearl, jewels and other most precious goods, of all the best and richest merchants of Panama. On board of this galleon were also the religious women, belonging to the nunnery of the said city, who had embarked with them all the ornaments of their church, consisting in great quantity of gold, plate and other things of great value.
עמוד 205 - Panama, there to live in company of their dear husbands and children, in little huts of straw which they would erect, seeing they had no houses until the rebuilding of the city. But his answer was : he came not thither to hear lamentations and cries, but rather to seek money. Therefore they ought to seek out for that in the first place, wherever it were to be had, and bring it to him, otherwise he would assuredly transport them all to such places whither they cared not to go.
עמוד 24 - The boats, which were sparsely manned, had been at Nombre de Dios at the time of the raid. They were now bound for Cartagena with double letters of advice, "to certify that Captain Drake had been at Nombre de Dios, and taken it; and had it not been that he was hurt with some blessed shot, by all likelihood he had sacked it. He was yet still upon the coast," ran the letter, "and they should therefore carefully prepare for him.
עמוד 177 - Then did they beat it between two stones, and rub it, often dipping it in the water of the river, to render it by these means supple and tender. Lastly, they scraped off the hair, and roasted or broiled it upon the fire. And being thus cooked they cut it into small morsels, and eat it, helping it down with frequent gulps of water, which by good fortune they had near at hand.