A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America

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Burrows Brothers Company, 1903 - 212 sidor
 

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Sida 17 - Made English from the Dutch Copy : written by J. Esquemeling, one of the Bucaniers : very much corrected from the errors of the Original by the relations of some English gentlemen, that then resided in those parts.
Sida 191 - Land seem'd to reach about 14 or 16 Leagues in a Range, and there came thence great Flocks of Fowls. I, and many more of our Men would have made this Land, and have gone ashore at it; but the Captain would not permit us.
Sida 107 - Mangrove is not, unless this should be a Dwarf kind of it. We brought away with us several Bundles of this Bark, and I found it to be the right sort, by the frequent use I made of it in Virginia and elsewhere ; and I have some of it now by me.
Sida 175 - Hill, are there gathered as in a deep large Bason or Pond, the Top subsiding inwards quite round ; and the Water having by this means no Channel whereby to flow along, as in a Brook or River, it overflows the Verge of its Bason in several Places, and runs trickling down in many pretty streams. In...
Sida 112 - Size, yet extraordinarily fat at the dry Season, when the Fruits are ripe; and they are very good Meat, for we ate of them very plentifully. The Indians were shy of eating them for a while ; but they soon were persuaded to it, by seeing us feed on them so heartily. In the Rainy Season they have often Worms in their Bowels. I have taken a handful of them out of one Monkey we cut open; and some of them 7 or 8 Foot long. They are a very waggish kind of Monkey...
Sida 61 - Conch-shells, and of a sorry sort of Drums made of hollow Bamboes, which they beat upon; making a jarring Noise also with Strings fasten'd to the larger Bones of Beasts: And every now and then they would make a dread[^ful Exclamation, and clattering all of a sudden, would as suddenly make a Pause and a profound Silence. But finding that after a considerable Time no Answer was made them, they concluded that 'twas because we were in the House, and so turn'd us out, and went to Work again. But still...
Sida 153 - ... all the Uses they have for Cloth. And they never weave a piece of Cotton with a design to cut it, but of a size that shall just serve for the particular use. The Threads thus coming from the Roller are the Warp; and for the Woof, they twist...
Sida 54 - Geftures, by way of rejoycing and triumph. I was by while this was performing on Lacenta's Lady : And perceiving their Ignorance, told Lacenta, That if he pleafed, I would fhew him a better way, without putting the Patient to fo much Torment. Let me fee, fays he ; and at his command, I bound up her Arm with a piece of Bark, and with my Lancet breathed a Vein : But this rafh attempt had like to have coft me my Life.
Sida 60 - They were all in their finest Robes, which are long white Gowns, reaching to their Ancles, with Fringes at the bottom, and in their Hands they had Half Pikes.

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