Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol 3 ppt

... trees, plantains, bananoes, shaddocks, yams, and some other roots, sugar-cane, and a fruit like a nectarine, called by them Fighegea, and at Otaheite _Ahuya_: In short, here are most of the articles which ... the officers may, with the least hazard, venture upon a strange coast. A ship of this kind must not be of a great draught of water, yet of a sufficient burden...

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... is a low flat border, off which there are some rocks that appear above water. Between this Cape and Cape Turnagain, the land near the shore is, in many places, low and flat, and has a green and ... I named after Dr Solander, and called it Solander's Island. The shore of the main lies nearest E. by S. and W. by N. and forms a large open bay, in which there is no appe...

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... been, and what hardships would he have avoided, if he had known that there was a group of islands half way between America and Tinian, where all his wants could have been effectually supplied; and ... inhabit also more plentifully scattered about, than any where between the coast of California and Japan, in or near that latitude. [Footnote 1: See Torquemada's Narrative of...

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... natives, and afterwards got the name of Canaga, Zanaga, Sanhaga, Sanaga, or Senega, now the Senegal. Lançarot passed in safety over the bar of this river, and endeavoured to explore its course upwards, ... Voyage by Cape Branco, the Coast of Barbary, and the Fortia of Arguin; with some account of the Arabs, the Azanaghi, and the Country of Tegazza._ Leaving the Canaries, w...

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... people farther to the eastwards about Cape Garcias a Dios are almost black, of a fierce aspect, go stark naked, are very savage, and according to Giumbe eat mans flesh and raw fish. They have their ... one of our pilots, and a man of good reputation, was appointed to take charge of the prisoners, and more especially of Quibio, who was bound hand and foot, and on be...

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... place, continuing his march, Alvarado was continually harassed by the Indians of Quetzaltenango, and came at length to a defile in a high mountain, where the ascent was about a league and a half. ... of his fleet, and learnt from a Spaniard who had fled from punishment and lived among the Indians, that the province of Panuco was poor and unhealthy; and as this man...

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... latitudes of 29° 30 ' and 30 ° N E.] [Footnote 7: Xima, or sima, only means island. Perhaps Mashama may be that named Kaba-sima in modern maps, and Amaxay may possibly be Amacusa, these islands ... sound leading to Nangasaki, and the straits of Arima appear to be the passage between the north side of Amacusa and Kiusiu E.] §6. _Arrival at Firando, and some Account of...

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... which Pedro de Mascarenas was appointed successor to Don Enrique; but Mascarenas commanded at Malacca, which was at a great distance, and the season of the year did not admit of that navigation. On ... coast of Cambaya, did much damage to the enemy. Going up the river Nagotana of Bazain, he landed and burnt six towns belonging to the king of Cambaya. The commander of Nagotan...

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... Indus, Patala, Persis, and Karmania came to Arabia, as early as the time of Agatharcides; and it is probable that these ships were navigated by Arabians, as the inhabitants of India were not, at this ... old town and nearer the sea, a capacious harbour, capable of containing 250 ships of war. The establishment was on a large and complete scale, consisting of arsenals, ma...

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... red-headed \ linnet 37 9/ (Latham, II. 30 5.) XIII. Dun flycatcher 39 0 (Latham, II. 35 1.) XIV. Sky-lark 39 4A. Alauda arsensis 287 Wood-lark 39 5B. Alauda arborea ib. XV. White wagtail 39 6E. Motacilla alba ... 33 5 Longbilled 420 Stapazina 421 Motacilla stapazina. 33 1 Awatska 422 XVII. Marsh titmouse 427 Paras palustris 34 1 XVIII.Chimney swallow 429 Hirundo rustica 34 3 Martin...

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