A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time: Arranged in Systematic Order, Geographical and Chronological. The Whole Exhibiting a Faithful and Lively Delineation of the World. Carefully Selected from Writers of Different Nations. In Four Volumes, Bind 1Mackenzie and Dent, 1817 |
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Side 4
... dangers they have encountered , or the diligence and resoul- tion they have displayed . He attends a COLUMBUS , a COOK ... danger and the toil . This study is also incomparably more fascinating than the extravagant fictions of certain ...
... dangers they have encountered , or the diligence and resoul- tion they have displayed . He attends a COLUMBUS , a COOK ... danger and the toil . This study is also incomparably more fascinating than the extravagant fictions of certain ...
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... danger . To unskilful Spanish sailors , accustomed only to coasting voyages in the Mediterranean , the maritime science of Columbus , the fruit of thirty years experience , improved by an acquaintance with all the inventions of the ...
... danger . To unskilful Spanish sailors , accustomed only to coasting voyages in the Mediterranean , the maritime science of Columbus , the fruit of thirty years experience , improved by an acquaintance with all the inventions of the ...
Side 13
... dangerous rocks , or some large tract of land , which had sunk , they knew not how , in that place . Columbus endeavoured to persuade them , that what had alarmed , ought rather to have encouraged them , and was to be considered as a ...
... dangerous rocks , or some large tract of land , which had sunk , they knew not how , in that place . Columbus endeavoured to persuade them , that what had alarmed , ought rather to have encouraged them , and was to be considered as a ...
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... dangers . He took along with him seven of the natives of San Salvador , that , by acquiring the Spanish language , they might serve as guides and interpreters ; and those innocent people considered it as a mark of distinction when they ...
... dangers . He took along with him seven of the natives of San Salvador , that , by acquiring the Spanish language , they might serve as guides and interpreters ; and those innocent people considered it as a mark of distinction when they ...
Side 23
... danger , carelessly left the helm to an unexperi- enced cabin - boy , and the ship , carried away by a current , was dashed against a rock . The violence of the shock awaken- ed Columbus . He ran up to the deck . There , all was ...
... danger , carelessly left the helm to an unexperi- enced cabin - boy , and the ship , carried away by a current , was dashed against a rock . The violence of the shock awaken- ed Columbus . He ran up to the deck . There , all was ...
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admiral Almagro America anchor appeared arms arrived Barbadoes barge boat body brigantines called canoe captain Carlisle bay carried cazique climate coast colonel Fourgeoud colony Columbus command continued Cortes creek crown of Castile Cuba danger Devil's Harwar discovered Drake endeavoured enemy European expedition fatigue favourable fire fleet friends gave gold governor ground Guacanagari hammock hand harbour head Hispaniola honour hopes immediately Indians inhabitants instantly island Joanna land leagues leave Mexicans Montezuma morning mountains mulatto musquitoes natives negroes never night Nombre de Dios obliged observed officers Panama Paramaribo party person Peru pinnaces Pizarro poor Porto Bello present provisions Quito rebels received river rowed sailed sailors seemed sent ship shore side situation slaves soldiers soon Spain Spaniards Spanish Stedman Surinam surprize Symerons tion took town trees troops vessel voyage whole wind woods wounded