Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others, 14. izdaja

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J. MacLehose and sons, 1906
 

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Stran 301 - East, where spices grove, by a way that was neuer knowen before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing And understanding by reason of the sphere, that if I should, saile by way of the North-west, I should by a shorter tract come into India, I thereupon caused the king to be advertised of my devise, who immediately commanded two caravels to bee furnished with all things appertaining to the voyage, which was as farre as I remember...
Stran 305 - ... we may meete with our fellow, and so with all diligence that lyes in me toward parts to that Hands that we are commanded by the grace of God, as we were commanded at our departing : And thus Jesu save and keepe your honorable Grace, and all your honourable Reverfences], in the Haven of Saint John, the third day of August, written in haste. 1527. By your servant John Rut, to his uttermost of his power.
Stran 398 - Tydes keepe no 1615. certaine course, nor rise but a small height, as eight or nine foote, and the flood commeth from the Southward, and in all the Bay beyond that place the Tyde is so small, and not much to be regarded, yet by reason of snow melting on the Land, the Ebbe is stronger then the...
Stran 417 - Also he said, that he went on Land in divers places, and that he saw some people on Land, clad in Beasts...
Stran 415 - Spaine by the space of fortie yeeres, and had sailed to and from many places thereof, as Mariner and Pilot, in the service of the Spaniards.
Stran 24 - Inasmuch as it hath pleased Almightie God, through the industry of yourselfe and others, to discover unto our nation a land lying in eightie degrees toward the North Pole : We are desirous, not only to discover farther to the northward, along the said land, to find whether the same be an island or a mayne, and which way the same doth trend, either to the eastward or to the westward of the pole ; as also whether the same be inhabited by any people, or whether there be an open sea farther northward...
Stran 304 - Woods, and no natural! ground, but all mosse, and no inhabitation nor no people in these parts: and in the woods we found footing of divers great beasts, but we saw none not in ten leagues.
Stran 116 - Emperor, with his nobilitie, in order entred the church named Blaveshina or Blessednes, where prayers and service were used according to the maner of their church. That done, they went thence to the church called Michael the Archangell, and there also used the like prayers and service; and from thence to our Lady church, Prechista, being their cathedrall church. In the middest thereof was a chair of majestic placed, wherein his auncestors used to sit at such extraordinarie times.
Stran 417 - Also he said, that when he was come into Spaine, he was greatly welcommed there at the Kings Court, in wordes after the Spanish manner, but after long time of suite there also, hee could not get any reward there neither to his content.

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