The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana: With a Relation of the Great and Golden City of Manoa... Etc. Performed in the Year 1595, by Sir W. Ralegh, Knt... Reprinted from the Edition of 1596, with Some Unpublished Documents Relative to that Country. Ed., with Copious Explanatory Notes and a Biographical Memoir, by Sir Robert H. SchomburgkHakluyt Society, 1848 - 240 страници |
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... March , 1584 ; and on the 7th of April following two vessels , fitted out at the cost of himself and some associates , sailed under the command of Captains 1 Hakluyt's Voyages , vol . iii . p . 243 . Philip Amidas and Arthur Barlow from ...
... March , 1584 ; and on the 7th of April following two vessels , fitted out at the cost of himself and some associates , sailed under the command of Captains 1 Hakluyt's Voyages , vol . iii . p . 243 . Philip Amidas and Arthur Barlow from ...
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... March , 1589 . White made another attempt to relieve the unfor- tunate planters in the year 1589. He arrived at Roanoak on the 15th of August , and found that the English were removed to Croatan , an island twenty leagues to the south ...
... March , 1589 . White made another attempt to relieve the unfor- tunate planters in the year 1589. He arrived at Roanoak on the 15th of August , and found that the English were removed to Croatan , an island twenty leagues to the south ...
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... March , casting ancour at Point Curiapan , which the Spanyards call Punto de Gallo2 , which is 1 The isles of Berlengas , Burlings or Biorlings , and Cape Roca or the rock of Lisbon , on the coast of Portugal . 2 Curiapan is the south ...
... March , casting ancour at Point Curiapan , which the Spanyards call Punto de Gallo2 , which is 1 The isles of Berlengas , Burlings or Biorlings , and Cape Roca or the rock of Lisbon , on the coast of Portugal . 2 Curiapan is the south ...
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... March or April 1595 , as in that instance they would have met Ralegh's ships , who did not leave the island of Trinidad before the end of June . Suffice it to say , that this great expedition met with such disasters , sufferings and ...
... March or April 1595 , as in that instance they would have met Ralegh's ships , who did not leave the island of Trinidad before the end of June . Suffice it to say , that this great expedition met with such disasters , sufferings and ...
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... March 1570 to Barequizemeto , from whence he went to Peru and embarked ultimately for Spain . He was killed on his return by the Caribs . ( Oviedo , lib . vi . cap . 1 et 5. ) Ralegh confounds evidently the expedition of Don Malavez de ...
... March 1570 to Barequizemeto , from whence he went to Peru and embarked ultimately for Spain . He was killed on his return by the Caribs . ( Oviedo , lib . vi . cap . 1 et 5. ) Ralegh confounds evidently the expedition of Don Malavez de ...
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Страница xxxiv - A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia : of the commodities there found and to be raysed, as well marchantable, as others...
Страница 219 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Страница xliv - Thou art a young woman, and forbear not to marry again ; it is now nothing to me ; thou art no more mine, nor I thine. To witness that thou didst love me once, take care that thou marry not to please sense, but to avoid poverty, and to preserve thy child. That thou didst also love me living, witness it to others; to my poor daughter, to whom I have given nothing ; for his sake, who will be cruel to himself to preserve thee.
Страница 69 - ... as no man can endure to cure or to attend them : and it is more strange to know, that in all this time there was never Spaniard, either by gift or torment, that could...
Страница xli - I mean not to come away, as they say I will, for fear of a marriage, and I know not what. If any such thing were, I would have imparted it unto yourself before any man living ; and therefore I pray believe it not, and I beseech you to suppress what you can any such malicious report. For I protest before God, there is none on the face of the earth that I would be fastened unto.
Страница 87 - Guiana already, and the other sought to regain the same from them both; and therefore I desired him to instruct me what he could, both of the passage into the golden parts of Guiana, and to the civil towns and apparelled people of Inga.
Страница 82 - Whether it be true or no, the matter is not great, neither can there be any profit in the imagination. For mine own part I saw them not, but I am resolved that so many people did not all combine, or forethink to make the report.
Страница 13 - The empire of Guiana is directly east from Peru towards the sea, and lieth under the equinoctial line, and it hath more abundance of gold than any part of Peru, and as many, or more great cities than ever Peru had when it flourished most.
Страница 81 - I am resolved it is true, because every childe in the provinces of Arromaia and Canuri affirme the same : they are called Ewaipanoma : they are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouthes in the middle of their breasts...
Страница 1 - THE DISCOVERY' OF GUIANA ON Thursday, the sixth of February, in the year 1595, we departed England, and the Sunday following had sight of the north cape of Spain, the wind for the most part continuing prosperous; we passed in sight of the Burlings, and the Rock, and so onwards for the Canaries, and fell with Fuerteventura the 17.