Hakluytus Posthumus: Or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others, Količina 6

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J. MacLehose and sons, 1905
 

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Stran 401 - Elephants' teeth and tayles to him. They will not enter into any of the Maramba's houses, nor will suffer any to come where they dwelL And if by chance any Maramba or people of Longo pass where they dwell, they will forsake that place and go to another.
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Stran 131 - A lovrnall or Briefe Reportary of all occurrents hapning in the fleet of ships sent out by the King his most excellent Maiestie, as well against the Pirates of Algiers, as others: the whole body of the Fleete consisting of 18.
Stran 157 - ... in Plymouth ; and the other in Foy, where the Commander of this ship was also born, by which occasion they became acquainted. So that both the Captain and the Master promised them good usage, upon the good service they should perform in the voyage ; and withal, demanded of...
Stran 161 - ... yea, to shut up the Captain himself with all his consorts : and so to handle the matter, that, upon the watchword given, the English being masters of the Gunner Room, ordnance and powder, they would either blow them into the air; or kill them, as they adventured to come down, one by one, if they should, by any chance, open their cabins. But because he would proceed the better in his enterprise, as he had somewhat abruptly discovered himself...
Stran 398 - Hands and people dwelling in them. The woods are so covered with baboones, monkies, apes and parrots, that it will feare any man to travaile in them alone. Here are also two kinds of monsters, which are common in these woods, and very dangerous. " The greatest of these two monsters is called Pongo in their language, and the lesser is called Engeco.
Stran 155 - So the soldiers hurried us, like dogs, into the market ; where, as men sell hackneys in England, we were tossed up and down, to see who would give most for us. And although we had heavy hearts, and looked with sad countenances ; yet many came to behold us; sometimes taking us by the hand, sometimes turning us round about, sometimes feeling our brawns and naked arms: and so beholding our prices written in our breasts, they bargained for us accordingly; and, at last, we were all sold, and the soldiers...
Stran 149 - Nor doe I write this to the intent that any man should presume that their owne strengths, valour or courage, is sufficient to doe these or the like actions, for they are not ordinary, and therefore man is but made the ordinary instrument of an extraordinary power, and he that shall attribute such things as these to the arme of flesh and bloud, is forgetfull, ingratefull, and in a manner Atheisticall.
Stran 169 - Saviour, as being formerly seduced with the hopes of riches, honour preferment, and such like devilish baits to catch the souls of mortal men and entangle frailty in the tarriers of horrible abuses and imposturing deceit. When all was done, and the ship cleared of the dead bodies ; JOHN RAWLINS assembled his men together, and with one consent gave the praise...
Stran 367 - The strange adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh in Essex, sent by the Portugals prisoner to Angola, who lived there and in the adioining regions neere eighteene yeeres.

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