Voyages of Drake & Gilbert: Select Narratives from the "Principal Navigations" of HakluytClarendon Press, 1909 - 327 pages |
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Page 112 - Elizabeth came to the throne, the great period of maritime discoveries, a period extending from the middle of the fourteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, was already well advanced, and the main problems of geography had been solved.
Page 300 - 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...
Page 167 - Divers Voyages touching the Discoverie of America, and the Islands adjacent unto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterwards by the Frenchmen and Britons: And certaine notes of advertisements for observations, necessarie for such as shall hereafter make the like attempt, With two mappes annexed hereunto, for the plainer understanding of the whole matter.
Page 175 - ... besought almighty God of his goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea.
Page 296 - 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...
Page 162 - 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...
Page 187 - ... of one man. So that the cause being thoroughly heard, and all things done in good order as...
Page 196 - Majestie at his returne would rest contented with this service, purposed to continue no longer upon the Spanish coasts, but began to consider and to consult of the best way for his Countrey.
Page 303 - God to support this company, (of which onely one man died of a maladie inveterate, and long infested) : the rest kept together in reasonable contentment and concord, beginning, continuing, and ending the voyage, which none els did accomplish either not pleased with the action, or impatient of wants, or prevented by death.
Page 201 - Want ( mole) and the taile of a rat, being of great "length ; under her chinne on either side a bagge, into the "which she gathered her meate, when she hath filled her bellie "abroad.