A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol 11 pdf

Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 14 ppt

Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 14 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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Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 ppt

Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 ppt

... 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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Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 doc

Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 doc

... 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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Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 2 pptx

Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 2 pptx

... 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, ... several wandering tribes of the Azanhaji E. [2] Called Tombuto in the original, and Ataubat in Grynaeus Astl. Hoden stands in an ouasis, or watered island, in the sea of sand,...

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

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

... 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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Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 4 doc

Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 4 doc

... 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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Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 9 ppt

Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 9 ppt

... 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 the Habits, Manners, and ... built of stone and lime, and its inhabitants are orderly and civil. They carry on trade with the coasts of Melinda, Magadoxa, Mombaza, Arabia, and Madagascar, carrying...

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Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 6 pptx

Tài liệu A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 6 pptx

... 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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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 8 pot

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 8 pot

... Bengal, Malacca, and Macao in China, with the islands of Molucca and Amboyna. That the Portuguese likewise trade to Monomotapa, Melinda, Aden, Arabia, Cambaya or Guzerat, the coast of Coromandel, ... shore. [Footnote 11: It will appear distinctly in the sequel of these early voyages, that this Aguada de Saldanha, called likewise Saldanha or Saldania bay, was that now named Table b...

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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 doc

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 doc

... geography and natural history of Georgia and its kindred neighbours E.] CHAPTER IV. 19 A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 The Project Gutenberg EBook of A General History ... Staten Land; with an Account of the Discovery of a Harbour in that Island, and a Description of the Coasts, IV. Observations, geographical and...

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