Hakluytus Posthumus: Or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and OthersJ. MacLehose and Sons, 1906 - North America |
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aboord after-noone againe alwayes Anchor Beare Boat called calme Cape cast certayne Cherie Iland cleere weather clocke at night cold comming Companie Compasse Countrey course dayes Deere degrees divers drave East South-east Eevening entred faire weather farre fast Ice fathoms Fish five fogge foule weather foure and twentieth Fowle Greenland hath Henry Greene Hull Ship III.iii killed Land latitude leagues little wind lyeth Master Mezen miles minutes morning Morses neere nine and twentieth noone North North-west North-east Nova Zembla Oyle Pechora Peeces Pinega Pustozera ranne River Russes Samoieds Scute set sayle seven Shallop shee shewed ship shoald shoare Siberia side sixe and twentieth skinnes Snow sounded South South-east Sunne Tartars Taurica thence thereof thither Thomas Edge Towne twelve twentie unto Versts Voyage wee found wee saw wee steered wee tooke West South-west Whale whereby wherewith wind at South yeere Zavorot
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Page 367 - At night we came to other mountaines, which lie from the rivers side. There wee found very loving people, and very old men : where wee were well used. Our boat went to fish, and caught great store of very good fish. The sixteenth, faire and very hot weather. In the morning our boat went againe to fishing, but could catch but few, by reason their canoes had beene there all night. This morning the people came aboord, and brought us eares of Indian corne, and pompions, and tabacco : which wee bought...
Page 371 - The people of the mountaynes came aboord us, wondring at our ship and weapons. We bought some small skinnes of them for trifles. This afternoone, one canoe kept hanging under our sterne with one man in it, which we could not keepe from thence, who got up by our rudder to the cabin window, and stole out my pillow, and two shirts, and two bandeleeres. Our masters mate shot at him, and strooke him on the brest, and killed him.
Page 318 - ... and breasts were like a woman's, as they say that saw her; her body as big as one of us; her skin very white; and long haire hanging down behinde, of colour blacke: in her going down they saw her tayle, which was like the tayle of a porposse, and speckled like a macrell. Their names that saw her were Thomas Hilles and Robert Rayner.
Page 294 - Anno, 1607, Aprill the nineteenth, at St. Ethelburge, in Bishops Gate street, did communicate with the rest of the parishioners these persons, seamen, purposing to goe to sea foure dayes after, for to discover a passage by the North Pole to Japan and China.
Page 318 - ... her backe and breasts were like a woman's, as they say that saw her; her body as big as one of us; her skin very white; and long haire hanging downe behinde, of colour black: in her going down they saw her tayle, which was like the tayle of a porposse, and speckled like a macrell.
Page 405 - Perse and Henry Greene, being mortally wounded, came tumbling into the boat together. When Andrew Moter saw this medley, hee came running downe the rockes, and leaped into the sea, and so swamme to the boat, hanging on the sterne thereof, till Michael...
Page 390 - Masters promise : but the Master did so raile on Greene, with so many words of disgrace, telling him, that all his friends would not trust him with twenty shillings, and therefore why should he ? As for wages he had none, nor none should have, if he did not please him well.
Page 387 - Having spent three moneths in a Labyrinth without end, being now the last of October, we went downe to the East, to the bottome of the Bay : but returned without speeding of that we went for. The next day we went to the South, and the South-west, and found a place, whereunto we brought our ship, and haled her aground : and this was the first of November. By the tenth thereof we were frozen in...
Page 83 - ... tooke counsell together what we were best to doe, according to the time, that we might winter there, and attend such adventure as God would send us ; and after we had debated upon the matter (to keepe and defend ourselves both from the...
Page 295 - This was very high land, most part covered with snow. The nether part was uncovered. At the top, it looked reddish, and underneath a blackish clay, with much ice lying about it."* There was a quantity of fowl on this coast, and a whale was seen close by the shore.