A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, Volumen10W. Blackwood, 1824 |
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Página 90 - I have either discovered or brought certain intelligence of all the rich places of the world, which were ever discovered by any Christian. I navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great.
Página 350 - Spaniards had landed before he knew what they were, and they came so near him that he had much ado to escape ; for they not only shot at him, but pursued him into the woods...
Página 90 - I have had to do her majesty service in the performance of this voyage ; and, as it hath pleased God to give her the victory over part of her enemies, so I trust' ere long, to see her overthrow them all.
Página 350 - He had with him his clothes and bedding, with a firelock and some powder and bullets, some tobacco, a knife, a kettle, a bible, with some other books, and his mathematical instruments. He diverted himself and provided for his sustenance as well as he could ; but had much ado to bear up against melancholy for the first eight months, and was sore distressed at being left alone in such a desolate place. He built himself two huts of pimento trees...
Página 404 - N. where it is so thick that it seems as if islands, but is not to be met with in any other part of the ocean.
Página 350 - ... flesh, of which he made very good broth, for they are not so rank as ours. He kept an account of 500 that he killed while there, and caught as many more, which he marked on the ear and let go. When his powder failed, he took them by speed of...
Página 351 - He came at last to relish his meat well enough without salt or bread ; and in the season had plenty of good turnips, which had been sowed there by Captain Dampier's men, and have now overspread some acres of ground. He had enough of good cabbage from the...
Página 90 - I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit to me was a great ship of the king's, which I took at California,
Página 350 - At first he never ate anything till hunger constrained him, partly for grief, and partly for want of bread and salt : nor did he go to bed, till he could watch no longer ; the pimento wood, which burnt very clear, served him both for fire and candle, and refreshed him with its fragrant smell.
Página 350 - In the lesser hut, at some distance from the other, he dressed his victuals; and in the larger he slept and employed himself in reading, singing psalms, and praying ; so that he said he was a better Christian while in this solitude than ever he was before, or than, he was afraid, he should ever be again.