| John Barrow - 1844 - 388 strani
...moons were painted, and in the white parts black suns. " Magelhaens," says the ' World Encompassed,' " was not altogether deceived in naming them giants,...they are nothing so monstrous or giantlike as they were reported, there being some Englishmen as tall as the highest of any that we could see; but, peradventure,... | |
| John Barrow - 1844 - 428 strani
...moons were painted, and in the white parts black suns. " Magelhaens," says the ' World Encompassed,' " was not altogether deceived in naming them giants,...they are nothing so monstrous or giantlike as they were reported, there being some Englishmen as tall as the highest of any that we could see ; but, peradventure,... | |
| Sir Francis Drake, William Sandya Wright Vaux - 1854 - 424 strani
...they most truly and rightfully deserued. "~ / Magellane was not altogether deceiued in naming thom Giants, for they generally differ from the common sort of men, both in stature, bignes, and strength of body, as also in . the hideousnesse of their voice ; but yet they are nothing... | |
| Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1868 - 336 strani
...came into contact with the aborigines of Patagonia. "Magellan," says the chronicler of the voyage, " was not altogether deceived in naming them giants...there being some Englishmen as tall as the highest that we could see." Later travellers have found that they are hardly as tall as ordinary Englishmen.... | |
| David Laing Purves - 1874 - 856 strani
...belong nnto soldiers of worth in time of war, which they most truly and rightfully deserved. Magellan was not altogether deceived in naming them Giants,...they are nothing so monstrous or giantlike as they were reported, there being some Englishmen as tall as the highest of any that we did see : but peradventure... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 428 strani
...immense stature, the chronicler of the voyage, in his book, " The World Encompassed," writes: " Magellan was not altogether deceived in naming them giants,...they are nothing so monstrous or giant-like as they were reported, there being some Englishmen as tall as the highest of any that we could see ; but, peradventure,... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 408 strani
...suns. They wore no other covering than a skin. " Magelhaens," says the chronicler of the voyage,* " was not altogether deceived in naming them giants,...they are nothing so monstrous or giant-like as they were reported, there being some Englishmen as tall as the highest of any that we could see ; but, peradventure,... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1883 - 390 strani
...black suns, that is, with crescents and circles. They wore no other raiment than a skin. " Magalhaens was not altogether deceived in naming them giants,...they are nothing so monstrous or giant-like as they were reported, there being some Englishmen as tall as the highest of any that we could see ; but peradventure... | |
| Henry Raup Wagner - 1926 - 612 strani
...lies: . . . . (Hakluyt XI, 157.) The World Encompassed says, "Magellane was not altogether deceiued in naming them Giants, for they generally differ from the common sort of men, both in stature, bignes, and strength of body, as also in the hideousnesse of their voice; but yet they are nothing... | |
| Peter T. Bradley, David Patrick Cahill - 2000 - 198 strani
...part to magnify grossly the proportions, singularity or monstrosity of their attackers. For although 'they generally differ from the common sort of men, both in stature, bignes, and strength of body, as also in the hideousnesse of their voice', 'they are nothing so monstrous... | |
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