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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The victorious voyage of Captaine Amias Preston now knight, and Captaine George Sommers to the West India, begun in March 1595. Wherein the yle of Puerto Santo, the yle of Coche neere Margarita, the fort and towne of Coro , the stately city of S. Iago de Leon were taken sacked and burned, and the towne of Cumana ransomed, & Jamaica entred. Written by Robert Davie one of the company. (search)
me. There I went aland in our boat, & found 3 or 4 fisher boats, and brought one of them off. The rest bulged themselves. Here we rode to mend our yard til the 11 at night: then we set saile to find captaine Amias Preston: and standing towards Gomera , the 12 in the morning we had sight of him. Then we thought to have landed in Gomera : but the wind blew so much, that we could not. So we departed altogether with joy the 13 of April, & set our course for the West Indies. And the 8 of May next Gomera : but the wind blew so much, that we could not. So we departed altogether with joy the 13 of April, & set our course for the West Indies. And the 8 of May next ensuing, we arrived at the yland of Dominica . In all which time nothing happened unto us saving this, that the 18 day of April at midnight, our admiral lost her long boat in towing. We staied at Dominica til the 14 of May, to refresh our sicke men. Here the Indians came unto us in canoas made of an whole tree, in some wherof were 3 men, in some 4 or 6, & in others 12 or 14, and brought in them plantans, pinos, and potatos, and trucked with us, for hatchets, knives, & small bead-stones. Here i
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Here follow the latitudes of the headlandes, Capes, and Islands, as well of Madera, The Canaries, and the West Indies, as of the Azores and the Isles of Cabo Verde. (search)
Here follow the latitudes of the headlandes, Capes, and Islands, as well of Madera, The Canaries, and the West Indies, as of the Azores and the Isles of Cabo Verde. Degrees of latitude. THE island called Puerto santo standeth in33 The isle of Madera standeth in32 1/2 The isle Salvaja in30 The isle of Alagranza in29 1/2 The isle Fuerte ventura in28 1/2 The Grand Canaria in28 1/2 The isle of Palma, and the point called Punta de Naga in Tenerif in28 1/2 The isle of Gomera in27 1/2 The latitudes of the Islands of the West Indies. Degrees of latitude. The island of Fonzeca standeth in 11 1/4 The isle Tabago in skant 11 The Barbudos in 13 The isle of Trinidad upon the North side in 10 The isle of Granata in 11 1/4 The isle of Sant Vincent in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discovery of. (search)
nd went himself with the Nina on the same errand to Gomera. The admiral arrived at Gomera on Sunday the 12tGomera on Sunday the 12th of August, and sent a boat on shore to inquire if any vessel could be procured there for his purpose. The be determined to await the arrival of that vessel at Gomera, believing that Pinzon might have secured a vessel ed one of his people in a bark which was bound from Gomera to Gran Canaria, to acquaint Pinzon where he lay, a to his letter, he sailed with the two vessels from Gomera on the 23d of August for Gran Canaria, and fell in miral was informed that Dona Beatrix had sailed for Gomera on the 20th with the vessel which he was so anxiousfore, lest he might again miss it if he returned to Gomera, he resolved to make a new rudder for the Pinta at day the first of September, and arrived next day at Gomera, where four days were employed in completing their eptember, 1492, the admiral took his departure from Gomera, and commenced his great undertaking by standing di
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