Voyages and Travels Mainly During the 16th and 17th Centuries ...Thomas Seccombe Constable, 1903 - Voyages and travels |
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Page 109 - DE FLORES, both against the wind and weather, would, perforce, have sailed to San Lucar ; but being constrained by the wind, and the importunity of the sailors (•who protested they would require their losses and damages of him), he was content to sail to Lisbon. From whence, the silver was carried by land to Seville. At Cape St. Vincent, there lay a fleet of twenty English ships, to watch for this armada ; so that if they had put into San Lucar, they had fallen right into their hands : which if...
Page 117 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Page 207 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 294 - August 1573, during sermon-time, when the news of his return 'did so speedily pass over all the church, and surpass their minds with desire and delight to see him, that very few or none remained with the preacher, all hastening to see the evidence of God's love and blessing towards our gracious queen and country.
Page 272 - Being at the place appointed, our Captain with half his men [8 English and 15 Cimaroons], lay on one side of the way, about fifty paces off in the long grass; JOHN OXNAM with the Captain of the Cimaroons, and the other half, lay on the other side of the way, at the like distance: but so far behind, that as occasion served, the former company might take the foremost mules by the heads, and the hindmost because the mules tied together, are always driven one after another; and especially that if we...
Page 205 - ... that came running down the mast might meet together at that place, and there be received. —Some also put bullets of lead into their mouths to...
Page 247 - There are two entries into this river, of which we entered the westernmost called Boca Chica. The freshet [current] is so great, that we being half a league from the mouth of it, filled fresh water for our beverage. From three o'clock till dark at night, we rowed up the stream ; but the current was so strong downwards, that we got but two leagues, all that time. We moored our pinnaces to a tree that night : for that presently, with the closing of the evening, there fell a monstrous shower of rain,...
Page 238 - ... having already gotten many good things, to be very ready to take all occasions, of winding themselves out of that conceited danger) would he not have it known to any, till this his fainting, against his will, bewrayed it: the blood having first filled the very prints which our footsteps made, to the greater dismay of all our company, who thought it not credible that one man should be able to spare so much blood and live.
Page 261 - CHARLES GLUB, one of our Quarter-Masters, a very tall man, and a right good mariner; taken away, to the great grief both of Captain and company. What the cause of this malady was, we knew not of certainty, we imputed it to the cold which our men had taken, lying without succour in the pinnaces. But howsoever it was...
Page 114 - Portingalles, for they above all others must of force let the foole peepe out of their sleeves, specially when they are in authoritie : for that I knew the said Mathias...