Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern, with Introductions, Notes and IllustrationsP.F. Collier, 1910 - 394 עמודים An account of Egypt, by Herodotus, tr. by G.C. Macaulay. --Tacitus on Germany, tr. by T. Gordon. --Sir Francis Drake revived, ed. by P. Nichols. --Sir Francis Drake's famous voyage around the world, by F. Pretty. --Drake's great Armada, by Captain W. Biggs. --Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to Newfoundland, by E. Hayes. --The discovery of Guiana, by Sir W. Raleigh. |
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עמוד 316 - are a nation of people whose heads appear not above their shoulders; which though it may be thought a mere fable, yet for mine own part I am resolved it is true, because every child in the provinces of Aromaia and
עמוד 267 - which we now forsook a very lion to our seeming, in shape, hair, and colour, not swimming after the manner of a beast by moving of his feet, but rather sliding upon the water with his whole body, excepting the legs, in sight, neither yet diving under, and HC
עמוד 200 - them after the manner of hemp, and thereof make their loose garments, which being knit about their middles, hang down about their hips, having also about their shoulders a skin of deer, with the hair upon it. These women are very obedient and serviceable to their husbands. After they were departed from us, they came and visited
עמוד 335 - English beef, and in great plenty. To speak of the several sorts of every kind I fear would be troublesome to the reader, and therefore I will omit them, and conclude that both for health, good air, pleasure, and riches, I am resolved it cannot be equalled by any region either in the east or west. Moreover the country
עמוד 288 - were queens of the Amazons. In many histories they are verified to have been, and in divers ages and provinces; but they which are not far from Guiana do accompany with men but once in a year, and for the time of one month, which I gather by their relation, to be in April ; and that time all kings
עמוד 258 - plots that were drawn, with the due gradation of the harbours, bays, and capes, did perish with the Admiral : wherefore in the description following, I must omit the particulars of such things. That which we do call the Newfoundland, and the Frenchmen Baccalaos, is an island, or rather, after the opinion of some, it
עמוד 294 - the sea, which was more of desire to perform that discovery than of reason, especially having such poor and weak vessels to transport ourselves in. For in the bottom of an old galega which I caused to be fashioned like a galley, and in one barge, two wherries, and a ship-boat of
עמוד 239 - with other gentlemen assisting him in that action, intended to discover and to plant Christian inhabitants in place convenient, upon those large and ample countries extended northward from the Cape of FLORIDA, lying under very temperate climes, esteemed fertile and rich in minerals, yet
עמוד 255 - ships,as well English as strangers, were taxed at an easy rate to make supply. And besides, commissioners were appointed, part of our own company and part of theirs, to go into other harbours adjoining (for our English merchants command all there) to levy our provision : whereunto the Portugals, above other nations, did most willingly
עמוד 240 - more, and had long since attained a sure possession and settled government of many provinces in those northerly parts of America, if their many attempts into those foreign and remote lands had not been impeached by their garboils at home. The first discover* of these coasts, never heard of before, was well begun by