A Chronological History of Voyages Into the Arctic Regions: Undertaken Chiefly for the Purpose of Discovering a North-east, North-west, Or Polar Passage Between the Atlantic and Pacific : from the Earliest Periods of Scandinavian Navigation to the Departure of the Recent Expeditions Under the Orders of Captains Ross and BuchanJohn Murray, 1818 - 427 páginas |
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... Spain , or Sicily , and sung their valiant deeds . " * The Greenland colonies were less fortunate . The great island ( if it be not a peninsula ) known by the name of Greenland , is divided into two distinct parts by a central ridge of ...
... Spain , or Sicily , and sung their valiant deeds . " * The Greenland colonies were less fortunate . The great island ( if it be not a peninsula ) known by the name of Greenland , is divided into two distinct parts by a central ridge of ...
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... Spain , and printed in the collection of Ramusio , it would appear that Sebastian was alone on this voyage of dis- covery ; as in this document Sebastian is thus made to say " and when my father died , in that time when news were ...
... Spain , and printed in the collection of Ramusio , it would appear that Sebastian was alone on this voyage of dis- covery ; as in this document Sebastian is thus made to say " and when my father died , in that time when news were ...
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... Spain ; or , as Peter Martyr saith , " he was called out of England by the command of His Catholic Majesty of Castile , where he was made one of the council for the affairs of the New Indies ; " and he adds , " Cabot is my very good ...
... Spain ; or , as Peter Martyr saith , " he was called out of England by the command of His Catholic Majesty of Castile , where he was made one of the council for the affairs of the New Indies ; " and he adds , " Cabot is my very good ...
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... Spain , her commerce lan- guished and her marine was destroyed , from the combined effect of domestic oppression and foreign war ; and the ports both of Aveiro and Vianna are at present , and have been for many years , by sheer neglect ...
... Spain , her commerce lan- guished and her marine was destroyed , from the combined effect of domestic oppression and foreign war ; and the ports both of Aveiro and Vianna are at present , and have been for many years , by sheer neglect ...
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... Spain derived so much wealth . The discovery he actually made , or at least claimed , was that of the gulf and river of Saint Lawrence ; though there can be little doubt that Cortereal preceded him , and indeed it is gene- rally ...
... Spain derived so much wealth . The discovery he actually made , or at least claimed , was that of the gulf and river of Saint Lawrence ; though there can be little doubt that Cortereal preceded him , and indeed it is gene- rally ...
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appeared arrived attempt August Baffin Barentz boat called Cape Farewell Captain Cherry Island coast of America coast of Greenland cold command continued Cortereal covered crew discovered discovery distance ducats Dutch east eastward England enterprize expedition farther fell fish Frisland frozen gave the name Greenland Hakluyt harbour hope Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company Hugh Willoughby hundred Iceland Indians inlet island July June King Labrador land latitude leagues Lieutenant longitude masses of ice master miles mountains mouth natives navigation Newfoundland night North Pole north-east north-west passage northern northward Nova Zembla observed passed pilot pinnace Portugueze proceeded Purchas reached river says set sail ships shore side sledges Snæfell snow Sound South Sea southward Spain Spitzbergen stood Strait of Anian supposed Thomas Button tide tons vessels voyage ward weather westward whales wigwams William Baffin wind winter Zichmni
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Página 312 - An Act for giving a public Reward to such Person or Persons, being His Majesty's Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and also unto such as shall first approach by Sea . within One Degree of the Northern Pole...
Página 213 - ... of the world known; for by divers good observations I found it to be above five points, or fifty-six degrees varied to the westward.
Página 132 - ... and very much broader sea than was at the said entrance, and that he passed by divers islands in that sailing; and that at the entrance of this said strait, there is, on the northwest coast thereof, a great headland or island, with an exceeding high pinnacle, or spired rock, like a pillar thereupon.
Página 59 - And thus much (by reason of the great negligence of the writers of those times, who should have used more care in preserving of the memories of the worthy actes of our nation,) is all that hitherto I can learne, or finde out of this voyage.
Página 90 - I carried away from hence the last year is dead in England. Moreover, you may declare unto them, that if they deliver you not, I will not leave a man alive in their country.
Página 153 - Countrey, and amongst our friends, it comforted us as well as if we had made a great banquet in our owne house...
Página 297 - ... either all feasting, or all famine ; sometimes we had too much, seldom just enough, frequently too little, and often none at all. It will be only necessary to say that we have fasted many times two whole days and nights ; twice upwards of three days ; and once, while at She-than-nee, near seven days, during which we tasted not a mouthful of anything, except a few cranberries, water, scraps of old leather, and burnt bones.
Página 35 - These were clothed in beasts skins, & did eate raw flesh, and spake such speach that no man could understand them, and in their demeanour like to bruite beastes, whom the King kept a time after.
Página 276 - A sickness and famine occasioned such havock among the English that, by the setting in of the second winter, their number was reduced to twenty. That winter, 1720, some of the Esquimaux took up their abode on the opposite side of the harbour to that on which the English had built their houses, and frequently supplied them with such provisions as they had, which chiefly consisted of whale's blubber, and seal's flesh, and train oil.
Página 263 - ... in a Greenland ship that summer) told him, that their ship went not out to fish that summer, but only to take in the lading of the whole fleet, to bring it to an early market. But, said he, before the fleet had caught fish enough to lade us, we, by order of the Greenland Company, sailed unto...