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... shoare ; and soo , with grete spoyelle of our provysyones , saved our selves , and the noble shippe also , with her backe whoolle , which all they marryners aborde thoughte coolde not possybelly but have beene brocken in sunder ...
... shoare ; and soo , with grete spoyelle of our provysyones , saved our selves , and the noble shippe also , with her backe whoolle , which all they marryners aborde thoughte coolde not possybelly but have beene brocken in sunder ...
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... shoare began to be full of greate cobble - stones and higher land . The ryver skants of his breadth two mile before we come to the ilet mentyoned ( which I call Turkey Ile ) , yet keepes it a quarter of a mile broade most comonly , and ...
... shoare began to be full of greate cobble - stones and higher land . The ryver skants of his breadth two mile before we come to the ilet mentyoned ( which I call Turkey Ile ) , yet keepes it a quarter of a mile broade most comonly , and ...
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... shoare . I answered him , they were honest gent . , and had carryed themselues very obediently to their goûnors . I prayed God that they did not think of any ill thing vnworthie themselues . I added further , that vpon Sundaie , if the ...
... shoare . I answered him , they were honest gent . , and had carryed themselues very obediently to their goûnors . I prayed God that they did not think of any ill thing vnworthie themselues . I added further , that vpon Sundaie , if the ...
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... shoare wth his guide , and left Robinson & Emmery , twoe of our Men , in the cannow ; wch were presently slayne by the Indians , Pamaonke's men , and hee himself taken prysoner , and , by the means of his guide , his lief was saved ...
... shoare wth his guide , and left Robinson & Emmery , twoe of our Men , in the cannow ; wch were presently slayne by the Indians , Pamaonke's men , and hee himself taken prysoner , and , by the means of his guide , his lief was saved ...
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... shoare , and discerned the mountaines to be couered with snowe : notwithstanding wee had no trouble wth ice all this while , as wee expected ; for it was almost all voided er wee came ther . Nowe wee coasted along towards St Thomas ...
... shoare , and discerned the mountaines to be couered with snowe : notwithstanding wee had no trouble wth ice all this while , as wee expected ; for it was almost all voided er wee came ther . Nowe wee coasted along towards St Thomas ...
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Page 93 - Towell to dry them: having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held, but the conclusion was, two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head...
Page 94 - Pocahontas, the King's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death...
Page 71 - A True Relation of such occurrences and accidents of noate as hath hapned in Virginia since the first planting of that Collony, which is now resident in the South part thereof, till the last returne from thence. Written by Captaine Smith, Coronell of the said Collony, to a worshipfull friend of his in England.
Page 261 - East where spices growe, by a way that was never knowen before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing.
Page 139 - Scarborow, a ridge of mountains run NW and NE an hundred leagues, known by the name of the White Mountains, upon which lieth snow all the year, and is a landmark twenty miles off at sea.
Page 13 - Miracles and chiefe points of Religion, as I was able then to utter, and thought fit for the time. And although I told them the booke materially and of...
Page 329 - April, in which he says, that, " at the end of his twenty years' service about her majesty's 6 State-paper Office; Irish Papers. person," he has chosen to employ himself in her desolate kingdom of Ireland ; and encloses two more petitions, of much the same tenor as the earlier ones of the same year. But at the end of this year, or the beginning of the next, his American expedition was determined on ; for, on the 8th of February, 1584-5, we have the warrant of the queen at Greenwich to Perrot, her...
Page 113 - New-England, wherein you have the setting out of a Ship, with the charges, the Prices of all Necessaries for Furnishing a Planter and his Family at his first coming, a Description of the...
Page 169 - Indian; of a sea serpent or snake that lay coiled up like a cable upon a rock at Cape Ann: a boat passing by with English aboard and two Indians, they would have shot the serpent, but the Indians dissuaded them, saying that if he were not killed outright they would be all in danger of their lives.
Page 102 - ... but preferred the service of God, in so good a voyage, before any affection to contest with his godlesse foes, whose...