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Page 85
... course set by the pilot . Sailing on this course , and having gone about 280 leagues from Lima , on Thursday , 4th December , at the hour of vespers , a soldier named Alonzo Rodriguez Franco , and another named Manuel Alvarez ...
... course set by the pilot . Sailing on this course , and having gone about 280 leagues from Lima , on Thursday , 4th December , at the hour of vespers , a soldier named Alonzo Rodriguez Franco , and another named Manuel Alvarez ...
Page 93
... course which they should take , and Pedro Sarmiento gave the course of the ships with all the bear- ings , and stated his opinion that they should follow a south - west [ -east ? ] course in search of the other land which he wished to ...
... course which they should take , and Pedro Sarmiento gave the course of the ships with all the bear- ings , and stated his opinion that they should follow a south - west [ -east ? ] course in search of the other land which he wished to ...
Page 431
... courses beyond ; a region already reached by men , and where no land is known . And by entering such a vast gulf , leaving behind and departing from every known land and course , it might easily happen , should the sea - breezes usual ...
... courses beyond ; a region already reached by men , and where no land is known . And by entering such a vast gulf , leaving behind and departing from every known land and course , it might easily happen , should the sea - breezes usual ...
Contents
PAGE | vii |
The Gela Florida Islands | xxx |
The Islands of Savo Solomon and Sesarga Spain | lxxxvi |
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