Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others, מהדורה 16

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J. MacLehose and Sons, 1906
 

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עמוד ii - GLASGOW PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE &• COMPANY LTD. FOR JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW MACMILLAN AND CO. LTD. LONDON THE MACMILLAN CO. NEW YORK THE UACMILLAN CO.
עמוד 175 - England: and having gotten eight degrees by North the Line, I lost my most dearest cousin. And now consider, whether a heart made of flesh, be able to indure so many misfortunes, all falling upon me without intermission.
עמוד 153 - At length being forced by fift'u the extremitie of stormes, and the narrownesse of the Straits (being not able to turne windward no longer) we got into an Harbour, where wee rid from the eighteenth day of Aprill, till the tenth of May : in all which time, wee never had other then most furious contrarie windes. And after that the moneth of May was come in, nothing but such flights of Snow, and extremities of Frosts, as 1591.
עמוד 142 - Beddes and their Tobacco. As for Gold and Silver they neither seeke, nor make any accompt thereof. This is to be noted, that how many men these Savages doe kill, so many holes they will have in their visage, beginning first in their nether lippe, then in their cheekes, thirdly in both their eye-browes, and lastly in their eares. Those twenty prisoners which we brought home, were afterward killed, rosted and eaten. While I remayned here amongst these people, certayn Portugals accompanied with certayn...
עמוד 389 - I took possession of the Land, by Turfe and Twigge, in behalfe of our Sovereigne Lord King James: I took the said possession of a part, in name of the whole Continent of Guiana, lying betwixt the rivers of Amazones, and Orenoque, not beeing actually possessed, and inhabited by any other Christian Prince or State; wherewith the Indians seemed to be well content and pleased.
עמוד 399 - Meues " (Nevis) : In this Island there is an hot Bath, which as well for the reports that I have heard, as also for that I have seene and found by experience, I doe hold for one of the best and most sovereigne in the World. I have heard that divers of our Nation have there been cured of the Leprosie, and that one of the same persons now, or lately dwelt at Woolwich neere the River of Thames, by whom the truth may be knowne, if any man desire to be further satisfied therein. As for my own experience,...
עמוד 377 - ... the common deceiver of mankind, whom they call Wattipa, and are by him deluded ; yet, notwithstanding their often conference with him, they fear, and hate him much, and say that he is naught ; and not without great reason, for he will oftentimes, to their great terror, beat them black and blue.
עמוד 175 - ... to be a fiend by those who read of the horrors he perpetrated in South America ; but before we send him back to the region which might be supposed to have given him birth, let us read a few words in a letter he wrote from his death-bed on board ship as he was returning from his last enterprise : — And now to tell you of my greatest griefe, which was the sicknesse of my deare kinsman John Locke, who by this time was growne in great...
עמוד 111 - The skull of his head was near[ly] as big as half a bushel. His neck bones, shoulder plates, arm bones, and all other lineaments of his other parts were huge and monstrous to behold. The shank of his leg, from the ankle to the knee, was as long as from any man's ankle up to his waist; and of bigness accordingly. At this time, and in this ship, were also sent two chests full of earth with ginger growing in them ; which were also sent from China, to be sent to the King of Spain. The ginger runneth...

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