The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volumen1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1830 |
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... supposed Wreck of a Ship from Gades . - Banished from Egypt . - Resolves to reach India by the Ocean . - Sails from Gades . -His Misfortunes . - Repeats the Attempt . His Fate and Cha- racter . - - - 57 CHAP . VI . THE GREEKS CONTINUED ...
... supposed Wreck of a Ship from Gades . - Banished from Egypt . - Resolves to reach India by the Ocean . - Sails from Gades . -His Misfortunes . - Repeats the Attempt . His Fate and Cha- racter . - - - 57 CHAP . VI . THE GREEKS CONTINUED ...
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... supposed to join the Ocean . Expeditions of Ælius Gallus into Arabia and Æthi- opia . - Habitable and uninhabitable Zones . - Obstinate Incredulity of Strabo . Britain visited by Cæsar . Its Population . -The Romans reach the Baltic ...
... supposed to join the Ocean . Expeditions of Ælius Gallus into Arabia and Æthi- opia . - Habitable and uninhabitable Zones . - Obstinate Incredulity of Strabo . Britain visited by Cæsar . Its Population . -The Romans reach the Baltic ...
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... supposed to have been acquainted with it . And the Ara- bians . First Mention of it by a European . - The Spaniards imbibe a Taste for the Luxuries of the East . - Their Wars with the Moors . Motives to seek a Passage by Sea to India ...
... supposed to have been acquainted with it . And the Ara- bians . First Mention of it by a European . - The Spaniards imbibe a Taste for the Luxuries of the East . - Their Wars with the Moors . Motives to seek a Passage by Sea to India ...
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... supposed , with little foundation , to refer to Tarsus in Cilicia . Kittim means Cyprus , and Dodanim or Rodanim is understood to apply to the island Rhodes . 66 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands . " It is ...
... supposed , with little foundation , to refer to Tarsus in Cilicia . Kittim means Cyprus , and Dodanim or Rodanim is understood to apply to the island Rhodes . 66 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands . " It is ...
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... supposed the word Tarshish to be a Phoenician epithet of the sea in general ; but though this interpreta- tion serves very well to explain the expression " ships of Tarshish , ” it only increases the difficulty of a three years ' voyage ...
... supposed the word Tarshish to be a Phoenician epithet of the sea in general ; but though this interpreta- tion serves very well to explain the expression " ships of Tarshish , ” it only increases the difficulty of a three years ' voyage ...
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Página 4 - And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey ; and this is the fruit of it.
Página 285 - Marvellous indeed and almost passing belief are the stories related of these spirits of the desert, which are said at times to fill the air with the sounds of all kinds of musical instruments, and also of drums and the clash of arms; obliging the travellers to close their line of march and to proceed in more compact order.
Página 259 - This prince caused a number of hollow copper figures to be made, resembling men, which were stuffed with combustibles, and set upon horses, each having a man behind on the horse, with a pair of bellows to stir up the fire. When approaching to give battle, these mounted images were first sent...
Página 23 - As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Página 8 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb...
Página 199 - The sails of these vessels are made of cane-reeds, woven together like a mat ; which when they put into port, they leave standing in the wind. In some of these vessels there will be employed a thousand men, six hundred of these sailors, and four hundred soldiers.
Página 396 - The cacique and his people assisted the Spaniards in saving their effects, and consented to their erecting a fort with the timber of the wreck. It was named La Navidad, and garrisoned with thirty-eight men, the first colony in Spanish America. The admiral left provisions in the fort, articles to barter with the natives, and whatever was necessary for its defence. He then took leave of the friendly cacique, with the promise to return soon. On the...
Página 385 - Pedro Torrea, his wife's relation, had found, on the coast of Porto Santo, pieces of carved wood, evidently not cut with a knife, and which had been carried thither by strong westerly winds ; other navigators had picked up in the Atlantic, canes of an extraordinary size, and many plants not apparently belonging to the Old World. The bodies of men were found, thrown by the waves on the shore of one of the Azores, who had features differing essentially from those of Africans or Europeans, and who had...
Página 304 - ... access to the place. The entire roof is covered with a plating of gold, in the same manner as we cover houses, or more properly churches, with lead. The ceilings of the halls are of the same precious metal ; many of the apartments have small tables of pure gold, of considerable thickness ; and the windows also have golden ornaments. So vast, indeed, are the riches of the palace that it is impossible to convey an idea of them.
Página 389 - O with marine plants, which had the appearance of having been recently detached from the rocks on which they had grown; and the men were convinced that land could not be far distant. On the 18th, Alonzo Pinzon, who sailed ahead, told Columbus that he had seen a multitude of birds in the west, and that he thought he had discerned land towards the north. As his vessel was a fast sailer, he crowded canvas and kept in the advance. Columbus had taken the precaution of keeping secret the true reckoning...