A Memoir of Sebastian Cabot: With a Review of the History of Maritime DiscoverySherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1832 - 333 páginas |
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... Strait , would conduct a Navigator , without fail , to Winter Island . Now from the very outset of Captain Parry's course from that point , we find him engaged in a struggle with the North - Eastern tendency of the coast . On 13th July ...
... Strait , would conduct a Navigator , without fail , to Winter Island . Now from the very outset of Captain Parry's course from that point , we find him engaged in a struggle with the North - Eastern tendency of the coast . On 13th July ...
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... strait . He , probably , judged by the eye of that fact , and of the distance at which the strait began to " open southerly . " A pause was , designedly , made in the midst of Willes's state- ment in order to separate what refers to ...
... strait . He , probably , judged by the eye of that fact , and of the distance at which the strait began to " open southerly . " A pause was , designedly , made in the midst of Willes's state- ment in order to separate what refers to ...
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... strait expand to the South , and fall into the Pacific precisely in the manner he describes . He , therefore , couples the delineation of Cabot , from actual observation , with the conjectures of the others , and draws certain ...
... strait expand to the South , and fall into the Pacific precisely in the manner he describes . He , therefore , couples the delineation of Cabot , from actual observation , with the conjectures of the others , and draws certain ...
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... Strait , and Bay , and northern channel , that we can appre- ciate the difficulties he had to overcome , and the dauntless intre- pidity that found a new impulse in perils before which his ter- rified companions gave way . CHAP . IV ...
... Strait , and Bay , and northern channel , that we can appre- ciate the difficulties he had to overcome , and the dauntless intre- pidity that found a new impulse in perils before which his ter- rified companions gave way . CHAP . IV ...
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... , according to Willes , fixed the mouth of the Strait between 61 ° and 64 ° ; and as to the Haven , the allusion is probably to Placentia Bay , or as it is written on the old maps of Newfoundland , Plasancius , a title 48.
... , according to Willes , fixed the mouth of the Strait between 61 ° and 64 ° ; and as to the Haven , the allusion is probably to Placentia Bay , or as it is written on the old maps of Newfoundland , Plasancius , a title 48.
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Página 36 - VOYAGES FROM ASIA TO AMERICA, for completing the discoveries of the north-west coast of America.
Página 306 - He kept a strait hand on his nobility, and chose rather to advance clergymen and lawyers, which were more obsequious to him, but had less interest in the people ; which made for his absoluteness, but not for his safety.
Página 192 - JAMES, by the grace of God, king of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith; and of Scotland the seven and fortieth.
Página 192 - Ordinances, Instructions, and Advertisements of, and for the direction of the intended voyage for Cathay, compiled, made, and delivered by the right worshipful M. Sebastian Cabota, Esq. Governour of the Mysterie and Companie of the Merchants Adventurers for the discoverie of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and places unknowen, the 9th day of May, in the yere of our Lord God 1553...
Página 283 - ONE master Hore of London, a man of goodly stature and of great courage, and given to the studie of Cosmographie...
Página 244 - These people are ill affected towards the English by reason of one Hunt, a master of a ship, who deceived the people and got them, under color of trucking with them, twenty out of this very place where we inhabit, and seven men from the Nausites, and carried them away, and sold them for slaves, like a wretched man (for twenty pound a man,) that cares not what mischief he doth for his profit.
Página 33 - West, so coasting still by the shore, that he was thereby brought so farre into the South, by reason of the land bending so much Southwards, that it was there almost...
Página 52 - An extract taken out of the map of Sebastian Cabot, cut by Clement Adams, concerning his discovery of the West Indies, which is to be seene in her Majesties privie gallerie at Westminster, and in many other ancient merchants houses.
Página 217 - Gentleman Master Cabota gave to the poore most liberall almes, wishing them to pray for the good fortune, and prosperous successe of the Serchthrift, our Pinnesse.
Página 73 - ... to seek out, discover, and find whatsoever isles, countries, regions, or provinces of the heathen and infidels whatsoever they be, and in what part of the world soever they be, which before this time have been unknown to all Christians.