The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation: Made by Sea Or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeeres, Выпуск 3

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J. MacLehose and sons, 1903
 

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Стр. 249 - Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.
Стр. 415 - Their common drinke is mead ; the poorer sort use water, and thinne drink called quasse, which is nothing els (as wee say) but water turned out of his wittes, with a little branne meashed with it. This diet would breede in them many diseases, but that they use bathstoves or hote houses in steede of all phisicke, commonly twise or thrise every weeke. All the winter time, and almost the whole sommer, they heat their peaches, which are made lyke the Germane...
Стр. 248 - Set downe in writing whatsoever you shall learne from day to day, lest you should forget, or lest God should call you to his mercy : and by ech returne I wish you to send in writing whatsoever you have learned, or at the least keepe the same safe in your coffer, that 1579. 1580. come death or life your countrey may enjoy the thing that you goe for, and not lose the charge, and travell bestowed in this case.
Стр. 258 - Vaigats) yet you shall seeke by all the meanes that you can to amend the same plat, vsing as many obseruations as you possibly can doe : and these notes following are to be obserued by you principally : 1. First that you doe obserue the latitude as often and in as many places as you may possibly doe it, noting diligently the place where you doe so obserue the same. 2. Also that you doe diligently set with your compasse how the land doth lie from point to point, all alongst1 as you goe, and to vse...
Стр. 133 - Turkie like, the men so full of guile, The women wanton, Temples stuft with idols that defile The Seats that sacred ought to be, the customes are so quaint, As if I would describe the whole, I feare my pen would faint. In summe, I say...
Стр. 163 - ... Iran. A carpet was almost as necessary to a Persian as his clothing. Thomas Herbert reported, in the seventeenth century: "In their houses they have little furniture or household stuff, except it be their carpets and some copper works. . . . They eat on the ground, sitting on carpets cross-legged, as do tailors. There is no man so simple but he sitteth on a carpet better or worse; and the whole house or room ... is wholly covered with...
Стр. 375 - God committed unto thee: in the name of the father, the sonne, and the holy ghost.
Стр. 365 - Perm, & other places. The blacke foxe and red come out of Siberia, white and dunne from Pechora, whence also come the white wolfe, and white Beare skin. The best Wulverin also thence and from Perm. The best Martrons are from Siberia, Cadam, Morum, Perm, and Cazan. Lyserns, Minever, and Armins, the best are out of Gallets, and Ouglits, many from Novogrod and Perm. The Beaver of the best sort breedeth in Murmonskey by Cola.
Стр. 127 - No pewter to be had, no dishes but of wood, No use of trenchers, cups cut out of birch are very good. They use but wooden spoons which, hanging in a case, Each muzhik at his girdle ties and thinks it no disgrace.
Стр. 267 - Deepe caps for Mariners coloured in Stamel, whereof if ample vent may be found, it would turne to an infinite commoditie of the common poore people by knitting.

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