Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others, 30. izdaja

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J. MacLehose and Sons, 1906
 

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Stran 81 - With a general consent of all our company, it was ordained that there should be a palmer or ferula which should be in the keeping of him who was taken with an oath ; and that he who had the palmer should give to every...
Stran 549 - ... to seeke another treasure like that of Atabalipa, lord of Peru, was not contented with a good countrie, nor with pearles, though many of them were worth their weight in gold. And if the countrie had...
Stran 140 - Aramaeans. showre of raine, is a showre of Gold unto them ; for with the violence of the water falling from the Mountaines, it bringeth from them the Gold : and besides, gives them water to wash it out, as also for their ingenious to worke ; so that ordinarily every weeke they have Processions for raine.
Stran 75 - Scurvie : and seemeth to be a kinde of dropsie, and raigneth most in this climate of any that I have heard or read of in the world ; though in all Seas it is wont to helpe and increase the miserie of man ; it possesseth all those of which it taketh hold, with a loathsome sloathfulnesse, that even to eate they would be content to change with sleepe and rest, which is the most 1593The signes.
Stran 99 - ... was of an hundred tuns bound for Angola to load Negroes, to be carried and sold in the River of Plate: It is a trade of great profit, and much used, for that the Negroes are carried from the head of the River of Plate, to Potosi, to labour in the Mines. It is a bad Negro...
Stran 78 - Land. and the Land for men. And the oftner a man can have his people to Land, (not hindering his Voyage) the better it is, and the profitablest course that he can take to refresh them.
Stran 526 - Governour, with an hundred men in the brigantines, lighted upon a towne, which he found without people, because, that assoone as the Christians had sight of land, they were descried, and saw along the coast many smokes, which the Indians had made to give advice the one to the other. The next day Luys de Moscoso, master of the campe, set the men in order, the horsemen in three squadrons, — the vantgard, the batallion, and the rerewarde : and so they marched that day, and the day following, compassing...
Stran 53 - Strange our filberds ; yet if it be done in time, this mischiefe """"""• may be prevented, that it shall not hurt, but if deferring the cure it be neglected, at length by eating and gnawing, it consumeth and corrupteth whole toes. From the often named Citie of the Assumption of Mary, to this Towne, are numbered (according to the account of the Astronomers) three hundred seventie two leagues. And when we had...
Stran 166 - ... wherein they are not over curious. The gunners are exempted from all labour and care, except about the artillery ; and these are either Almaines, Flemings, or strangers; for the Spaniards are but indifferently practised in this art.
Stran 76 - Upon which all the sea became so replenished with several sorts of jellies, and forms of serpents, adders, and snakes, as seemed wonderful : some green, some black, some yellow, some white, some of divers colours ; and many of them had life ; and some there were a yard and a half, and two yards long : which had I not seen, I could hardly have believed. And hereof are witnesses all the company of the ships which were then present ; so that hardly a man could draw a bucket of water clear of some corruption.

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