Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern

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P. F. Collier, 1910 - 394 עמודים
 

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עמוד 372 - Caora, and on that branch which is called Caora 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 Arromaia and Canuri affirm the same : they are called Ewaipanoma : they are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts, and that a long train of hair groweth backward between their shoulders.
עמוד 370 - I never saw a more beautiful country, nor more lively prospects, hills so raised here and there over the valleys, the river winding into divers branches, the plains adjoining without bush or stubble, all fair green grass, the...
עמוד 126 - Sir FRANCIS DRAKE revived ; Calling upon this dull or effeminate Age, to follow his noble steps for gold and silver...
עמוד 220 - And about six of the clock we came to her and boarded her, and shot at her three pieces of ordnance, and...
עמוד 304 - I will hasten to the end of this tragedy, which must be knit up in the person of our General. And as it was God's ordinance upon him, even so the vehement persuasion and entreaty of his friends could nothing avail to divert him of a wilful resolution of going through in his frigate ; which was overcharged upon the decks with fights, nettings, and small artillery, too cumbersome for so small a boat that was to pass through the ocean sea at that season of the year, when by course we might expect much...
עמוד 301 - At which very instant, even in winding about, there passed along between us and towards the land 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 again rising...
עמוד 358 - I could have returned a good quantity of gold ready cast, if I had not shot at another mark than present profit.
עמוד 372 - Whether it be true or no, the matter is not great, neither can there be any profit in the imagination ; for mine own part I saw them not, but I am resolved that so many people did not all combine or forethink to make the report.
עמוד 354 - ... volumes of Herbals ; we relieved ourselves many times with the fruits of the country, and sometimes with fowl and fish. We saw birds of all colours, some carnation, some crimson, orange-tawny, purple, watchet ', and of all other sorts, both simple and mixed, and it was unto us a great good-passing of the time to behold them, besides the relief we found by killing some store of them with our fowling-pieces...
עמוד 313 - It became not the former fortune in which I once lived to go journies of picory; and it had sorted ill with the offices of honour, which by Her Majesty's grace I hold this day in England, to run from cape to cape, and from place to place, for the pillage of ordinary prizes.

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