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Page 30
... weather , and hot ; in the morning we well manned our scute with foure muskets , and sixe men , and took one of their shal- lops , and brought it aboord . Then we manned our boat and scute with twelve men and muskets , and two stone ...
... weather , and hot ; in the morning we well manned our scute with foure muskets , and sixe men , and took one of their shal- lops , and brought it aboord . Then we manned our boat and scute with twelve men and muskets , and two stone ...
Page 53
... weather being contrary . And we came to another land being 15 leagues distant from the island , where we found a passing good hauen , wherein being entred , we found about 20 small boats of the people , which with diuers cries and ...
... weather being contrary . And we came to another land being 15 leagues distant from the island , where we found a passing good hauen , wherein being entred , we found about 20 small boats of the people , which with diuers cries and ...
Page 55
... weather . They came in great companies of their small boats unto the ship with their faces all bepainted with diuers colours , shewing us that it was a signe of ioy , bringing us of their vic- tuals , they made signes unto us where we ...
... weather . They came in great companies of their small boats unto the ship with their faces all bepainted with diuers colours , shewing us that it was a signe of ioy , bringing us of their vic- tuals , they made signes unto us where we ...
Page 58
... weather serued our turne for sailing ; but wee suppose that it was like the former , the coaste ranne eastward for the space of fiftie leagues . And trend- ing afterwards to the north , wee found another land high full of thicke woods ...
... weather serued our turne for sailing ; but wee suppose that it was like the former , the coaste ranne eastward for the space of fiftie leagues . And trend- ing afterwards to the north , wee found another land high full of thicke woods ...
Page 66
... weather . The foure and twentieth , in the morning about two of the clocke , the Masters mate thought he saw Land on the Larboord , trending North North - west Westerly , and the longer we ranne North , the more it fell away to the West ...
... weather . The foure and twentieth , in the morning about two of the clocke , the Masters mate thought he saw Land on the Larboord , trending North North - west Westerly , and the longer we ranne North , the more it fell away to the West ...
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