A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volumen1Robert Kerr W. Blackwood, 1811 |
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Página ix - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, arranged in Systematic Order ; forming a complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the earliest ages to the present time.
Página 36 - But no one presuming to inquire into the cause of his mirth, all kept silence till dinner was ended. After dinner, when the king had retired to his bed-chamber, to divest himself of his robes, three of his nobles, Earl Harold, an abbot, and a bishop, who were more familiar with him than any of the other courtiers, followed...
Página 56 - Arabs is the first and most powerful of kings, the most wealthy, and the most excellent every way, because he is the prince and head of a great religion, and becanse no other surpasses him.
Página 49 - ... and are governed by a queen 3. Among these islands they find ambergris in lumps of extraordinary bigness, and also in smaller pieces, which resemble plants torn up. This amber is produced at the bottom of the sea, in the same manner as plants are produced upon the earth ; and when the sea is tempestuous, it is torn up from the bottom by the violence of the waves, and washed to the shore in the form of a mushroom or truffle. These islands are full of that species of palm tree which bears the cocco...
Página 47 - ... the interpreters before him had given up as inexplicable." He published also a very good translation of " Herodian," from the Greek, the best edition of which is that of 1745, in 12mo. He died at Paris, Aug. 15, 1746, aged almost seventy-two. He was a member of the French academy, and of the academy of inscriptions and belles lettres ; and was fitted to do honour to any society.
Página 70 - ... the ancient usages ; so that our merchants were forced to return in crowds to Siraff and Oman *. The punishment of married persons, convicted of adultery, as well as for the crimes of homicide and theft, is as follows : The hands are bound fast together, and forced backwards over the head, till they rest on the neck. The right foot is then fastened to the right hand, and the left foot to the left hand, and all drawn tight together behind the back, so that the criminal is incapable to stir; and...
Página 361 - There is also one large canal behind the great street and the market-places, on the opposite bank of which there are many storehouses of stone, where the merchants from India and other places lay up their commodities, being at hand and commodious for the markets. In each of these markets the people from the country, to the number of forty or fifty thousand, meet three days in every week, bringing beasts, game, fowls, and in short every thing that can be desired for subsistence, in profusion ; and...
Página 113 - Their spies having descried from the top of a high mountain the Duke of Austria, the King of Bohemia, the Patriarch of Aquileia, the Duke of Carinthia, and as some say, the Earl of Baden, approaching with a mighty power towards them, the accursed crew immediately retired into the distressed and vanquished land of Hungary, departing as suddenly as they had invaded, and astonishing- all men by the celerity of their motions.
Página 123 - Curpini, sent ambassador, by Pope Innocent IV. AD 1246, to the great Can of Tartaria; wherein he passed through Bohemia, Polonia, Russia, and so to the city of Kiow upon Boristhenes, and from thence rode continually post for the space of sixe moneths through Comania, over the mighty and famous rivers, Tanais, Volga, and Jaic, and through the countries of the people called Kangittae, Bisermini, Karakitay, Naimani, and so to the native country of the Mongals or Tartars, situate in the extremV north-eastern...
Página 267 - ... recognized by their family, and were obliged to use extraordinary means to recover the respect which was their due, and an acknowledgement of their name, family, and rank, the particulars of which will be found in the travels themselves. About three years after the return of these adventurous travellers, hostilities arose between the republics of Genoa and Venice. The Genoese admiral, Lampa Doria, came to the island of Curzola with a fleet of seventy gallies, to oppose whom, the Venetians fitted...