The First Three English Books on America ?1511-1555 A. D..: Being Chiefly Translations, Compilations, &c., by Richard Eden, from the Writings, Maps, &c. of Pietro Martire, of Anghiera (1455-1526) ... Sebastian Münster, the Cosmographer (1489-1552) ... Sebastian Cabot, of Bristol (1474-1557) ... with Extracts, &c., from the Works of Other Spanish, Italian and German Writers of the Time |
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Page xx - This see is called the Great Occyan, So great it is that never man Coude tell it sith the worlde began ; Tyll nowe, within this xx. yere, Westwarde be founde new landes, That we never harde tell of before this...
Page xxi - Ihrsin [Jerusalem] lyeth in this contrey And this beyonde is the Red See That Moyses maketh of mencyon This quarter is India minor And this quarter India major The lande of Prester...
Page xviii - ... had murthered, broyled the same on the coles and greedily devoured them. By this meane the company decreased, and the officers knew not what was become of them ; And it fortuned that one of the company driven with hunger to seeke abroade for reliefe found out in the...
Page xxi - Nor whether the moste parte be lande or see, Nor whether the people that there be Be bestyall or connynge ; Nor whether they knowe God or no, Nor howe they beleve, nor what they do, Of this we knowe nothynge.
Page 263 - PIGAFETTA.] (3) Of the prices of precious stones and Spices, with theyr weightes and measures as they are accustomed to be soulde bothe of the Moores and the gentyles : And of the places where they gtowe.
Page xxi - But northwarde this way as ye se Many other straunge regions ther be And people that we not knowe But estwarde on the see syde A prynce there is that rulyth wyde Callyd the Cane of Catowe...
Page xxi - New found lands, of the which there is no doubt, (as nowe plainely appeareth) if the mariners would then have bene ruled, and followed their Pilots minde, the lands of the West Indies (from whence all the gold commeth) had bene ours. For all is one coast, as by the Carde appeareth, and is aforesayd.
Page 131 - They noorysshe a tree which they caule Guaiana, that beareth a frute much resemblynge the kynde of citrons which are commonly cauled limones, of taste sumwhat sharpe myxt with swetenes. They have also abundance of nuttes of pynetrees, and great plentie of date trees, whiche beare frutes bygger then the dates that are knowen to us: but they are not apte to bee eaten for theyr to much sowernes. Wylde and baren date trees, growe of them selves in sundry places, the branches wherof they use for biesommes,...
Page xxvi - This Boke treateth of the Lyfe of Virgilius, and of his Deth, And Many Maruayles that he dyd in his Lyfe Tyme by Whychcraf te and Kygramancye thorough the helpe of the Deuyls of Hell.
Page 288 - River runne so many other rivers, that it is in maner incredible. After this I made many other voyages, which I nowe pretermit, and waxing olde, I...