Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America: Select Narratives from the "Principal Navigations" of HakluytClarendon Press, 1900 - 272 страници |
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... boat of ten tons than in the Golden Hind ; at all events , not merely contrary to advice , but disregard- ing the ' vehement persuasion and entreaty ' of his friends , he insisted on remaining in her , overladen as her decks were with ...
... boat of ten tons than in the Golden Hind ; at all events , not merely contrary to advice , but disregard- ing the ' vehement persuasion and entreaty ' of his friends , he insisted on remaining in her , overladen as her decks were with ...
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... boats , sometimes by marching along the banks . After a journey of a year's duration , he reached a district about midway between the Andes and the sea , to which he gave the name of Amapaia . Here , according to his own account , he ...
... boats , sometimes by marching along the banks . After a journey of a year's duration , he reached a district about midway between the Andes and the sea , to which he gave the name of Amapaia . Here , according to his own account , he ...
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... boat , without him , and to wait their return . After a fortnight spent in exploring and parleying with the Indians they returned . The information brought back confirmed previous reports of the wealth to be obtained in the district ...
... boat , without him , and to wait their return . After a fortnight spent in exploring and parleying with the Indians they returned . The information brought back confirmed previous reports of the wealth to be obtained in the district ...
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... boat , carrying all together a hundred men and a month's provisions . By May 22 he was on his way up one of the ... boats , and it became evident that the further prosecution of the enterprise must be In a limited sense deferred until ...
... boat , carrying all together a hundred men and a month's provisions . By May 22 he was on his way up one of the ... boats , and it became evident that the further prosecution of the enterprise must be In a limited sense deferred until ...
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... boats the force which was to advance on the Golden City . Some were driven ashore after making the crossing , and their occupants massacred by the Indians . When his reinforcements had arrived , Berrio found himself in command of about ...
... boats the force which was to advance on the Golden City . Some were driven ashore after making the crossing , and their occupants massacred by the Indians . When his reinforcements had arrived , Berrio found himself in command of about ...
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Страница 171 - Many years since I had knowledge, by relation, of that mighty, rich, and beautiful empire of Guiana, and of that great and golden city, which the Spaniards call El Dorado, and the naturals Manoa...
Страница 62 - We were entertained with all love and kindness, and with as much bounty (after their manner) as they could possibly devise. We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age.
Страница 46 - I will hasten to the end of this tragedy, which must be knit up in the person of our General. And as it was God's ordinance upon him, even so the vehement persuasion and entreaty of his friends could nothing avail to divert him of a wilful resolution of going through in his frigate; which was overcharged upon the decks with fights, nettings, and small artillery, too cumbersome for so small a boat that was to pass through the ocean sea at that season of the year, when by course we might expect much...
Страница 244 - Ewaipanoma : they are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts, and that a long train of hair growetb.
Страница 42 - At which very instant, even in winding about, there passed along between us and towards the land which we now forsook a very lion to our seeming, in shape, hair, and colour, not swimming after the manner of a beast by moving of his feet, but rather sliding upon the water with his whole body, excepting the legs, in sight, neither yet diving under, and again rising...
Страница 245 - Indies were discovered, we find his relations true of such things as heretofore were held incredible : 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 xx - And as the Indies were not found, before Those rich perfumes which, from the happy shore, The winds upon their balmy wings convey'd, Whose guilty sweetness first their world betray'd; So by your counsels we are brought to view A rich and undiscover'd world in you. By you our monarch does that fame assure, Which kings must have, or cannot live secure: For prosperous princes gain their subjects...
Страница 63 - Idol, which they worship, of whom they speak incredible things. While we were at meat, there came in at the gates two or three men with their bows and arrows from hunting, whom when we espied, we began to look one towards another, and offered to reach our weapons, but as soon as she espied our mistrust, she was very much moved, and caused some of her men to run out, and take away their bows and arrows and break them, and withal beat the poor fellows out of the gate again. When we departed in the...
Страница 196 - Dudley told me he had seen. Upon this sight, and for the abundance of gold which he saw in the city, the images of gold in their temples, the plates, armours, and shields of gold which they use in the wars, he called it El Dorado.
Страница 222 - ... volumes of Herbals; we relieved ourselves many times with the fruits of the country, and sometimes with fowl and fish. We saw birds of all colours, some carnation, some crimson, orange-tawny, purple, watchet,™ and of all other sorts, both simple and mixed, and it was unto us a great good-passing of the time to behold them, besides the relief we found by killing some store of them with our fowlingpieces...