The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation: Made by Sea Or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeeres, Issue 3J. MacLehose and sons, 1903 - Discoveries in geography |
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Page 250 - Set downe in writing whatsoever you shall learne from day to day, lest you should forget, or lest God should call you to his mercy : and by ech returne I wish you to send in writing whatsoever you have learned, or at the least keepe the same safe in your coffer, that 1580. come death or life your countrey may enjoy the thing that you goe for, and not lose the charge, and traveD bestowed in this case.
Page 260 - Vaigats) yet you shall seeke by all the meanes that you can to amend the same plat, vsing as many obseruations as you possibly can doe : and these notes following are to be obserued by you principally : 1. First that you doe obserue the latitude as often and in as many places as you may possibly doe it, noting diligently the place where you doe so obserue the same. 2. Also that you doe diligently set with your compasse how the land doth lie from point to point, all alongst1 as you goe, and to vse...
Page 169 - Mosco is burnt every sticke by the Crimme the 24 day of May last, and an innumerable number of people...
Page 135 - Turkie like, the men so fiill of guile, The women wanton, Temples stuft with idols that defile The Seats that sacred ought to be, the customes are so quaint, As if I would describe the whole, I feare my pen would faint. In summe, I say...
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