An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe: And of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the Voyage of Megellan to the Death of CookOliver & Boyd, 1836 - Всего страниц: 496 |
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... Spaniards at length reached that ocean of which they had heard many vague rumours from the natives of Tierra Firma . The honour of this discovery is due to Vas- co Nunez de Balboa , a man sprung from a decayed family , and who , first ...
... Spaniards at length reached that ocean of which they had heard many vague rumours from the natives of Tierra Firma . The honour of this discovery is due to Vas- co Nunez de Balboa , a man sprung from a decayed family , and who , first ...
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... Spaniards . " From the moment in which he heard this intelligence , the mind of Vasco Nunez became occupied with this one object , and he stead- fastly devoted all his thoughts and actions to the discovery of the southern sea indicated ...
... Spaniards . " From the moment in which he heard this intelligence , the mind of Vasco Nunez became occupied with this one object , and he stead- fastly devoted all his thoughts and actions to the discovery of the southern sea indicated ...
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... Spaniards that ever came to the Indies . " After this he caused a tall tree to be felled , and formed into a cross , which was erected on the spot whence he first beheld the western deep . He then began to descend from the mountains to ...
... Spaniards that ever came to the Indies . " After this he caused a tall tree to be felled , and formed into a cross , which was erected on the spot whence he first beheld the western deep . He then began to descend from the mountains to ...
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... Spaniards extorted from their conquered subjects a large annual tribute drawn from the treasures of the deep . As the hope decayed of finding a passage to India through a strait in the American continent , the de- sign was formed of ...
... Spaniards extorted from their conquered subjects a large annual tribute drawn from the treasures of the deep . As the hope decayed of finding a passage to India through a strait in the American continent , the de- sign was formed of ...
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... Spaniards call him Hernando Magalhanes , and the French Magellan , which is the orthography that has been generally adopted : a gentleman , the fifth in descent from this great adventurer , is now living in or near London , and ...
... Spaniards call him Hernando Magalhanes , and the French Magellan , which is the orthography that has been generally adopted : a gentleman , the fifth in descent from this great adventurer , is now living in or near London , and ...
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Стр. 84 - ... besought almighty God of his goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea.
Стр. 163 - It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through!
Стр. 82 - And all King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver, it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Стр. 481 - To this disappointment we owed our having it in our power to revisit the Sandwich Islands, and to enrich our voyage with a discovery which, though the last, seemed in many respects to be the most important that had hitherto been made by Europeans throughout the extent of the Pacific Ocean.
Стр. 334 - as large as a one-gallon keg, and very like it : he had horns and wings, yet he crept so slowly through the grass, that if I had not been afeard I might have touched him.°...
Стр. 102 - Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Стр. 402 - But if I had followed the advice of all our pretended friends, I might have extirpated the whole race ; for the people of each hamlet or village, by turns, applied to me to destroy the other.
Стр. 21 - They have gold in the greatest abundance, its sources being inexhaustible, 4 but as the king does not allow of its being exported, few merchants visit the country, nor is it frequented by much shipping- from other parts.
Стр. 162 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head. The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Стр. 365 - I believe, no man in my situation would have thought of. It was, indeed, my opinion, as well as the opinion of most on board, that this ice extended quite to the pole, or perhaps joined on some land, to which it had been fixed from the earliest time...