Voyages and Travels: Ancient and ModernP. F. Collier, 1910 - 380 страници |
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... eight hundred and sixty , the number of schoines being eighty - one . If these measures of Egypt in furlongs be put together , the result is as follows : -I have already before this shown that the distance along the sea amounts to three ...
... eight hundred and sixty , the number of schoines being eighty - one . If these measures of Egypt in furlongs be put together , the result is as follows : -I have already before this shown that the distance along the sea amounts to three ...
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... eight cubits it watered Egypt below Memphis ; and not yet nine hundred years had gone by since the death of Moiris , when I heard these things from the priests : now however , unless the river rises to sixteen cubits , 10 HERODOTUS.
... eight cubits it watered Egypt below Memphis ; and not yet nine hundred years had gone by since the death of Moiris , when I heard these things from the priests : now however , unless the river rises to sixteen cubits , 10 HERODOTUS.
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... eight gods . I moreover , desiring to know something certain of these matters so far as might be , made a voyage also to Tyre of Phenicia , hearing that in that place there was a holy temple of Heracles ; and I saw that it was richly ...
... eight gods . I moreover , desiring to know something certain of these matters so far as might be , made a voyage also to Tyre of Phenicia , hearing that in that place there was a holy temple of Heracles ; and I saw that it was richly ...
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... eight gods ( now these eight gods they say came into being be- fore the twelve gods ) , and the painters and image - makers represent in painting and in sculpture the figure of Pan , just as the Hellenes do , with goat's face and legs ...
... eight gods ( now these eight gods they say came into being be- fore the twelve gods ) , and the painters and image - makers represent in painting and in sculpture the figure of Pan , just as the Hellenes do , with goat's face and legs ...
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... eight cubits . After him , they said , there succeeded to the throne a man of Memphis , whose name in the tongue of the Hellenes was Proteus ; for whom there is now a sacred enclosure at Mem- phis , very fair and well ordered , lying on ...
... eight cubits . After him , they said , there succeeded to the throne a man of Memphis , whose name in the tongue of the Hellenes was Proteus ; for whom there is now a sacred enclosure at Mem- phis , very fair and well ordered , lying on ...
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aboard Amasis Amazons amongst anchor Apries ashore bark beasts Berreo boats brought Bubastis cacique called canoas Cape Cape Race Captain Carapana carried Cartagena cause Cimaroons coast cubits Cumaná departed desire Dionysos divers DRAKE dwell Egypt Egyptians enemy England entered Epuremei fish fleet frigate galley gods gold Golden Hind ground Guiana harbour hath heard Hellenes Heracles honour hundred Indians inhabitants island king labour land leagues Libya Majesty manner Master miles Morequito mountains mouth nations night Nile Nombre de Dios Oracle ordnance Orenoque ourselves passed Pelasgians Peru pinnaces port priests promised province Psammetichos reason rest river sail sent shewed ship shore shot side silver soldiers sort Spain Spaniards Spanish stayed stone temple thence things thither told took town treasure trees unto victuals voyage West Indies whereof wind women woods Zeus
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Страница 136 - ... besought almighty God of his goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea.
Страница 223 - General made divers speeches to the whole company, persuading us to unity, obedience, love, and regard of our voyage ; and for the better confirmation thereof, willed every man the next Sunday following to prepare himself to receive the communion, as Christian brethren and friends ought to do. Which was done in very reverent sort, and so with good contentment every man went about his business.
Страница 390 - 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 322 - 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 228 - And about six of the clock we came to her and boarded her, and shot at her three pieces of ordnance, and...
Страница 319 - 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 374 - I could have returned a good quantity of gold ready cast, if I had not shot at another mark than present profit.
Страница 370 - ... 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...
Страница 331 - It became not the former fortune in which I once lived to go journies of picory; and it had sorted ill with the offices of honour, which by Her Majesty's grace I hold this day in England, to run from cape to cape, and from place to place, for the pillage of ordinary prizes.
Страница 222 - ... of one man. So that the cause being thoroughly heard, and all things done in good order as...