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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The voyage and travell of M. Caesar Fredericke , Marchant of Venice , into the East India , and beyond the Indies . Wherein are conteined the customes and rites of those countries, the merchandises and commodities, aswell of golde and silver, as spices, drugges, pearles, and other jewels: translated out of Italian by M. Thomas Hickocke . (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The Citie Malacca . (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The voyage of M. Ralph Fitch marchant of London by
the way of Tripolis in Syria
, to Ormus , and so to Goa
in the East India , to Cambaia , and all the kingdome
of Zelabdim Echebar the great Mogor , to the mighty
river Ganges, and downe to Bengala , to Bacola , and
Chonderi , to Pegu
, to Imahay in the kingdome of
Siam
, and backe to Pegu
, and from thence to Malacca ,
Zeilan , Cochin , and all the coast of the East India :
begunne in the yeere of our Lord 1583 , and ended 1591 ,
wherein the strange rites, maners, and customes of
those people, and the exceeding rich trade and commodities of those countries are faithfully set downe and
diligently described, by the aforesaid M. Ralph Fitch . (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Of the Iland Japan , and other litle lies in the East Ocean .
By R. Willes . (search)
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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Of the Iles beyond Japan
in the way from China
to the
Moluccas
. (search)
Of the Iles beyond Japan
in the way from China
to the
Moluccas
.
AMONGST other Iles in the Asian sea betwixt Cantan a
Chinish haven in Cathaio & the Moluccas
, much spoken
of in the Indian histories and painted out in Maps, Ainan
and Santianum are very famous. Ainan standeth 19
degrees on this side of the Equinoctiall line nere China
,
from whence the Chinish nation hath their provision for
shipping and other necessaries requisite for their Navie.
There staied Balthasar Gagus a great traveller 5 moneths,
who describeth that place after this maner. Ainan. is a
goodly countrey ful of Indian fruits & all kind of victuals,
besides great store of jewels and pearle, well inhabited,
the townes built of stone, the people rude in conditions,
apparelled in divers coloured rugs, with two oxe hornes,
as it were, made of fine cypres hanging downe about their
eares, and a paire of sharpe cyzers at their foreheads.
The cause wherefore they go in such attire I could not
understand, except
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, An excellent treatise of the kingdome of China
, and of
the estate and government thereof: Printed in Latine
at Macao
a citie of the Portugals in China
, An. Dom .
1590 . and written Dialogue-wise . The speakers are
Linus , Leo , and Michael . (search)
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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 English Voyages , Navigations , and Discoveries
(intended for the finding of a North-west passage) to
the North parts of America , to Meta incognita , and
the backeside of Gronland
, as farre as 72 degrees and
12 minuts: performed first by Sebastian Cabota , and
since by Sir Martin Frobisher , and M. John Davis ,
with the Patents, Discourses, and Advertisements
thereto belonging. (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Certaine other reasons, or arguments to proove a
passage by the Northwest, learnedly written by M.
Richard Willes Gentleman . (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, narrative 649 (search)