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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 4 0 Browse Search
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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)
t, for the monstrous yce that lay about it. From this day, till the sixth of this Moneth, we ranne along Island, and had the South part of it at eight of the clocke, East from us ten leagues. The seventh day of this moneth we had a very terrible storme, by force whereof, one of our men was blowen into the sea out of our waste, but he caught hold of the foresaile sheate, and there held till the Captaine pluckt him againe into the ship. The 25. day of this moneth we had sight of the Island of Orkney, which was then East from us. The first day of October we had sight of the Sheld, and so sailed about the coast, and ankered at Yarmouth , and the next day we came into Harwich . The language of the people of Meta incognita. Argoteyt, a hand. Callagay, a paire of breeches. Cangnawe, a nose. Attegay, a coate. Arered, an eye. Pollevetagay, a knife. Keiotot, a tooth. Accaskay, a shippe. Mutchatet the head Coblone, a thumb
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The first Voyage of M. Martine Frobisher, to the Northwest, for the search of the straight or passage to China , written by Christopher Hall, Master in the Gabriel, and made in the yeere of our Lord 1576. (search)
t, for the monstrous yce that lay about it. From this day, till the sixth of this Moneth, we ranne along Island, and had the South part of it at eight of the clocke, East from us ten leagues. The seventh day of this moneth we had a very terrible storme, by force whereof, one of our men was blowen into the sea out of our waste, but he caught hold of the foresaile sheate, and there held till the Captaine pluckt him againe into the ship. The 25. day of this moneth we had sight of the Island of Orkney, which was then East from us. The first day of October we had sight of the Sheld, and so sailed about the coast, and ankered at Yarmouth , and the next day we came into Harwich . The language of the people of Meta incognita. Argoteyt, a hand. Callagay, a paire of breeches. Cangnawe, a nose. Attegay, a coate. Arered, an eye. Pollevetagay, a knife. Keiotot, a tooth. Accaskay, a shippe. Mutchatet the head Coblone, a thumb