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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK XXXVII.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PRECIOUS STONES., CHAP. 16.—SMARAGDUS. (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, A voyage with three tall ships, the Penelope Admirall , the
Marchant royall Viceadmirall , and the Edward Bonaventure Rereadmirall , to the East Indies , by the Cape of
Buona Speransa Quitangone neere Mosambique , to
the Iles of Comoro and Zanzibar
on the backeside of
Africa
, and beyond Cape Comori in India , to the lies
of Nicubar and of Gomes Polo within two leagues of
Sumatra , to the Ilands of Pulo Pinaom , and thence to
the maine land of Malacca , begunne by M. George
Raymond , in the yeere 1591 , and performed by M.
James Lancaster , and written from the mouth of
Edmund Barker of Ipswich , his lieutenant in the sayd
voyage, by M. Richard Hakluyt . (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The firing and sinking of the stout and warre-like Carack
called Las Cinque Llaguas , or, The five Wounds, by
three tall Ships set foorth at the charges of the right
honorable the Erle of Cumberland and his friends:
Written by the discreet and valiant captaine M.
Nicholas Downton . (search)
The firing and sinking of the stout and warre-like Carack
called Las Cinque Llaguas, or, The five Wounds, by
three tall Ships set foorth at the charges of the right
honorable the Erle of Cumberland and his friends:
Written by the discreet and valiant captaine M.
Nicholas Downton.
IN the latter ende of the yeere 1593. the right honourable
Erie of Cumberland, at his owne charges and his friends,
prepared 3 ships all at equall rate, and either of them
had like quantitie of victuals, and like numbers of men,
there being embarked in all 3 ships 420 men of al sorts.
The Roial Exchange went as Admirall, wherein M.
George Cave was captaine. The May-flower Viceadmirall
under the conduct of William Anthonie: and the Sampson
, the charge whereof it pleased his honour to commit
unto me Nicholas Dounton. Our directions were sent
us to Plimmouth, and we were to open them at sea.
The sixt of Aprill 1594 we set sayle in the sound of
Plimmouth, directing our course toward the coast of
Spaine.
Th
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The casting away of the Tobie neere Cape Espartel
corruptly called Cape Sprat without the Straight of
Gibraltar on the coast of Barbarie . 1593 . (search)
The casting away of the Tobie neere Cape Espartel
corruptly called Cape Sprat without the Straight of
Gibraltar on the coast of Barbarie. 1593.THE Tobie of London a ship of 250 tunnes manned with
fiftie men, the owner whereof was the worshipfull M.
Richard Staper, being bound for Livorno
, Zante
and
Patras
in Morea
, being laden with marchandize to the
value of 11 or 12 thousand pounds sterling, set sayle
from Black-wall the 16 day of August 1593, and we
went thence to Portesmouth where we tooke in great
quantitie of wheate, and set sayle foorth of Stokes bay
in the Isle of Wight, the 6. day of October, the winde
being faire: and the 16 of the same moneth we were
in the heigth of Cape S. Vincent, where on the next
morning we descried a sayle which lay in try right a
head off us, to which we gave chase with very much
winde, the sayle being a Spaniard, which wee found in
fine so good of sayle that we were faine to leave her
and give her over. Two dayes after this we had sight
of mount
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The voyage of the ship called the Marigold of M. Hill
of Redrife unto Cape Briton and beyond to the latitude
of 44 degrees and an half, 1593 Written by Richard
fisher Master Hilles man of Redriffe . (search)
The voyage of the ship called the Marigold of M. Hill
of Redrife unto Cape Briton and beyond to the latitude
of 44 degrees and an half, 1593 Written by Richard
fisher Master Hilles man of Redriffe.
THE ship called the Marigold of 70 tunnes in burthen
furnished with 20 men, wherof 10 were Mariners, the
Masters name being Richard Strong of Apsham, the
Masters mate Peter Langworth of Apsham, with 3
coopers, 2 butchers to flea the Morsses or sea Oxen
(whereof divers have teeth above a cubit long & skinnes
farre thicker then any buls hide) with other necessary
people, departed out of Falmouth
the 1 of June 1593 in
consort of another ship of M. Drakes of Apsham, which
upon some occasion was not ready so soone as shee
should have bene by two moneths. The place for which
these two ships were bound was an Island within the
streightes of Saint Peter on the backe side of Newfoundland
to the Southwest in the latitude of fortie seven
degrees, called by the Britons of Saint Malo the Isle of
Ramea,
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, A briefe note concerning the voyage of M. George Drake
of Apsham to Isle of Ramea in the aforesayd yere 1593 . (search)
A briefe note concerning the voyage of M. George Drake
of Apsham to Isle of Ramea in the aforesayd yere 1593.
IN the beginning of the former relation written by Richard
Fisher servant to the worshipfull Master Hill of Redriffe
is, as you reade, a briefe reporte of their loosing of their
consort the shippe of Master George Drake of Apsham:
which though shee came directly to the Isle of Ramea,
yet because shee was not ready so soone by two moneths
as she ought to have bene, she was not onely the hinderance of her consort the Marigolde, & lost the season
of the yere for the making of her voyage of killing the
Morses or Sea Oxen, which are to be taken in Aprill,
May, and June: but also suffered the fit places and harboroughs in the Isle which are but two, as farre as I
can learne, to be forestalled and taken up by the Britons
of Saint Malo and the Baskes of Saint John de Luz, by
comming a day after the Fayre, as wee say. Which
lingering improvidence of our men hath bene the overthrowe
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, An abstract taken out of certaine Spaniards letters concerning Guiana
and the countries lying upon the great
river Orenoque : with certaine reports also touching the
same. (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Four personall reports of certaine Spaniards and of a Frenchman , concerning El Nuevo Dorado (search)
Four personall reports of certaine Spaniards and of a Frenchman, concerning El Nuevo Dorado
The report of Domingo Martinez of Jamaica concerning
El Dorado.HE sayth that in 1593. being at Carthagena, there was
a generall report of a late discovery called Nuevo Dorado,
and that a litle before his comming thither, there came
a Frigat from the said Dorado, bringing in it the portrature of a Giant all of Gold, of weight 47. kintals, which
the Indians there held for their Idoll. But now admitting
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The report of Domingo Martinez of Jamaica concerning
El Dorado . (search)
The report of Domingo Martinez of Jamaica concerning
El Dorado.HE sayth that in 1593. being at Carthagena, there was
a generall report of a late discovery called Nuevo Dorado,
and that a litle before his comming thither, there came
a Frigat from the said Dorado, bringing in it the portrature of a Giant all of Gold, of weight 47. kintals, which
the Indians there held for their Idoll. But now admitting
of Christianitie and obedience to the king of Spaine, they
sent their sayd Idol unto him in token they were become
Christians, and held him for their King. The company
comming in the said Frigat, reported Golde to be there
in most abundance, Diamonds of inestimable value, with
great store of pearle.
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The report of a French man called Bountillier of
Sherbrouke , concerning Trinidad
and Dorado . (search)
The report of a French man called Bountillier of
Sherbrouke, concerning Trinidad
and Dorado.HE saith that beeing at Trinidad
in 1591. he had of an
Indian there a peece of Golde of a quarter of a pound
in exchange of a knife; the sayde Indian tolde him hee
had it at the head of that river which commeth to Paracoa
in Trinidad
: and that within the River of Orenoque, it
was in great abundance. Also in 1593. beeing taken by
the Spanyardes, and brought prisoner into the Iland of
Madera (the place for his prison) there came in this meane
time a Barke of fortie Tunnes from a new Discovery,
with two millions of Golde; the company whereof reported
Golde in that place to bee in great abundance, and called
it El Nuevo Dorado. This Frenchman passed from
Spaine in the Barke, and having a cabben neere a gentleman, one of the Discoverers that came from that place
in the sayde Barke, had divers times conference with him,
and amongst other things, of the great abundance of
Golde in the sayd Dora