The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1830 |
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... DISCOVERY . VOL . II . LONDON : PRINTED FOR 6879 33-2 LONGMAN , REES , ORME , BROWN , AND GREEN , AND PATERNOSTER - ROW ; JOHN TAYLOR , UPPER GOWER STREET . THE HISTORY OF MARITIME Hand INLAND DISCOVERY . H. Corbould 1830 .
... DISCOVERY . VOL . II . LONDON : PRINTED FOR 6879 33-2 LONGMAN , REES , ORME , BROWN , AND GREEN , AND PATERNOSTER - ROW ; JOHN TAYLOR , UPPER GOWER STREET . THE HISTORY OF MARITIME Hand INLAND DISCOVERY . H. Corbould 1830 .
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William Desborough Cooley. THE HISTORY OF MARITIME Hand INLAND DISCOVERY . H. Corbould del . VOL . III . he ran before his companions to the summit of a mountain from which he surveyed , with transports of delight , the boundlefs Ocean ...
William Desborough Cooley. THE HISTORY OF MARITIME Hand INLAND DISCOVERY . H. Corbould del . VOL . III . he ran before his companions to the summit of a mountain from which he surveyed , with transports of delight , the boundlefs Ocean ...
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... hands of the infidels . Gold was the immediate ob- ject of his search in the New World ; and it is surprising with what eager credulity he listened to every account which flattered his hopes of acquiring sudden riches . The ...
... hands of the infidels . Gold was the immediate ob- ject of his search in the New World ; and it is surprising with what eager credulity he listened to every account which flattered his hopes of acquiring sudden riches . The ...
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... hands that he accompanied Hojeda ; and the first voyage of discovery made by this commander is fixed un- animously by all the Spanish writers in 1499 , or a year later than the voyage in which Columbus fell in with the coast of Paria ...
... hands that he accompanied Hojeda ; and the first voyage of discovery made by this commander is fixed un- animously by all the Spanish writers in 1499 , or a year later than the voyage in which Columbus fell in with the coast of Paria ...
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... hundred and seventy leagues west of the Azores . The English , on the other hand , had sent out an expedition in 1497 under Sebas- tian Cabot , who appears to have examined Newfound- land 34 BOOK IV . MODERN VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY .
... hundred and seventy leagues west of the Azores . The English , on the other hand , had sent out an expedition in 1497 under Sebas- tian Cabot , who appears to have examined Newfound- land 34 BOOK IV . MODERN VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY .
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The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 2 William Desborough Cooley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1830 |
The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 2 William Desborough Cooley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1830 |
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admiral adventurers afterwards Alfonso de Albuquerque America Amerigo Vespucci appears arrived boat buccaneers called canoes Cape captain carried Chinese coast colony Columbus command companions conduct conquest continued Cortez courage course court crew Cuba Dampier despatched discovered Drake Dutch East embarked emperor England English enterprise expedition favour fleet gave the name Giagas gold Greenland Guinea Hispaniola Hochelega Hojeda hopes India Indians Indies inhabitants island Japan Juan king Lake Belle land latitude leagues length Malacca merchants Moluccas months nation natives navigation north-west Nova Zembla Pacific Ocean passage Peru pilot Pinto Pinzon Pizarro Portugal Portuguese possession proceeded provisions reached received river Russians Salomon Islands savages seamen Sebastian Cabot seen sent set sail settlement ships shore small vessel soon South Sea Spain Spaniards Spanish steered Straits of Magellan success supposed Tatars trade Tshuktzki visited voyage of discovery
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Side 311 - Hodmadods have: and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows. Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes...
Side 151 - I will not forsake my little company going homeward, with whom I have passed so many storms and perils.
Side 144 - The prince called them to his table, to receive each a cup from his hand to drinke, and took into his hand master George...
Side 181 - London; have, at their own great cost and charges, undertaken an expedition for Hudson's Bay, in the north-west part of America, for the discovery of a new passage into the South Sea, and for the finding Some trade for furs, minerals and other considerable commodities...
Side 320 - He built two huts with pimento trees, covered them with long grass, and lined them with the skins of goats, which he killed with his gun as he wanted, so long as his powder lasted, which was but a pound; and that being almost spent, he got fire by rubbing two sticks of pimento wood together upon his knee.
Side 306 - Shot; which being spent, he contrived a way by notching his Knife, to saw the barrel of his Gun into small pieces, wherewith he made Harpoons, Lances, Hooks and a long Knife; heating the pieces first in the fire, which he struck with his Gunflint, and a piece of the barrel of his Gun, which he hardened; having learnt to do that among the English. The hot pieces of Iron he would hammer out and bend as he pleased with Stones...
Side 150 - The Colleagues of the Fellowship for the Discovery of the North-west Passage.
Side 146 - ... the only thing of the world that was left yet undone, whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate.
Side 172 - Cape Desolation ; and from thence you, William Baffin as pilot, keep along the coast of Greenland and up Fretum Davis, until you come toward the height of eighty degrees, if the land will give you leave.
Side 165 - This morning, one of our companie looking over boord saw a mermaid, and calling up some of the companie to see her, one more came up, and by that time shee was come close to the ship's side, looking earnestly on the men : a little after, a sea came and overturned her : from the navill upward, her backe and breasts were like a woman's...