Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of that Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain CookRichard Henry Major Hakluyt Society, 1859 - 200 עמודים |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abrolhos afterwards Amsterdam anchor ashore Australia Banda Batavia boat Cape Captain colour commander course crew Dalrymple Diemen's Land discovered discovery distance Dutch early eastward editor expedition exploration fathoms fathoms water fire fish four fresh water further galliot gospel Guinea Gulf of Carpentaria Holland hope inhabitants island Java laid latitude leagues longitude Majesty maps miles minutes Moluccas morning natives navigator night Nova Guinea observed passage Pelsart Peru pilot Portuguese Quiros reached reef remained returned river rocks Rosemary Island sail sand seen ship shoal shore side skipper sort sound South Land south latitude southern continent southern hemisphere southward Spain Spaniards steered Straits Straits of Sunda Tasman Ternate Terra Australis thence Timor tion trees Van Diemen's Land Vergulde Draeck vessel Vlaming Vlamingh voyage Waeckende Boey weather Willem de Vlamingh wind wreck yacht
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עמוד cv - ... nostrils, and mouth too, if the lips are not shut very close: so that from their infancy being thus annoyed with these insects, they do never open their eyes as other people: and therefore they cannot see far, unless they hold up their heads, as if they were looking at somewhat over them.
עמוד cxx - How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
עמוד 21 - So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
עמוד 94 - They have great bottle noses, pretty full lips and wide mouths. The two fore-teeth of their upper jaw are wanting in all of them, men and women, old and young, whether they draw them out, I know not; neither have they any beards.
עמוד 94 - Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, they being so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face, and without the assistance of both hands to keep them off, they will creep into one's nostrils, and mouth too, if the lips are not shut very close.
עמוד cii - A PARIS, | Chez CLAUDE BARBIN, au | Palais, sur le second Perron | de la Sainte Chapelle | M.
עמוד 98 - ... were only to work in. I did not perceive that they had any great liking to them at first, neither did they seem to admire anything that we had.
עמוד 94 - The -inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these ; who have no houses and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, etc., as the Hodmadods have ; and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes.
עמוד cxx - But how shall they call upon Him, in Whom they have not believed ? or how shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard ? or how shall they hear without a preacher? or how shall they preach except they be sent? Because then he said, how shall they call upon Him in Whom they have not believed...
עמוד 98 - But all the signs we could make were to no purpose, for they stood like statues, without motion, but grinned like so many monkeys, staring one upon another...