... trees, plantains, bananoes, shaddocks, yams, and some other roots, sugar-cane, and a
fruit like a nectarine, called by them Fighegea, and at Otaheite _Ahuya_: In short, here are most of the articles
which ... the officers may, with the least hazard, venture upon a strange coast. A ship of this
kind must not be of a great draught of water, yet of a sufficient burden...
... is a low flat border, off which
there are some rocks that appear above water. Between this Cape and Cape Turnagain, the land near the
shore is, in many places, low and flat, and has a green and ... I named after Dr Solander, and called it Solander's Island. The shore of the main lies nearest E. by
S. and W. by N. and forms a large open bay, in which there is no appe...
... been, and what hardships would he have avoided, if he had
known that there was a group of islands half way between America and Tinian, where all his wants could have
been effectually supplied; and ... inhabit also more plentifully scattered about,
than any where between the coast of California and Japan, in or near that latitude.
[Footnote 1: See Torquemada's Narrative of...
... natives, and afterwards got the name of Canaga, Zanaga, Sanhaga, Sanaga,
or Senega, now the Senegal. Lançarot passed in safety over the bar of this river, and endeavoured to explore
its course upwards, ... several wandering tribes of the Azanhaji E.
[2] Called Tombuto in the original, and Ataubat in Grynaeus Astl. Hoden stands in an ouasis, or watered
island, in the sea of sand,...
... people farther to the eastwards about Cape Garcias a Dios are almost black, of a fierce aspect, go stark
naked, are very savage, and according to Giumbe eat mans flesh and raw fish. They have their ... one of our pilots, and a man
of good reputation, was appointed to take charge of the prisoners, and more especially of Quibio, who was
bound hand and foot, and on be...
... place, continuing his march, Alvarado was continually harassed by the Indians of Quetzaltenango,
and came at length to a defile in a high mountain, where the ascent was about a league and a half. ... of his fleet, and learnt from a Spaniard
who had fled from punishment and lived among the Indians, that the province of Panuco was poor and
unhealthy; and as this man...
... sound leading to Nangasaki, and the straits of Arima appear to be the passage
between the north side of Amacusa and Kiusiu E.]
§6. _Arrival at Firando, and some Account of the Habits, Manners, and ... built of stone and lime, and its
inhabitants are orderly and civil. They carry on trade with the coasts of Melinda, Magadoxa, Mombaza,
Arabia, and Madagascar, carrying...
... which
Pedro de Mascarenas was appointed successor to Don Enrique; but Mascarenas commanded at Malacca,
which was at a great distance, and the season of the year did not admit of that navigation. On ... seamen all Portuguese, besides above 2000 Canara and Malabar soldiers, 8000 slaves, and about 5000
native seamen. Landing at Daman, a fort belonging to the king of Cairibaya, wh...
... Indus, Patala, Persis, and Karmania came to Arabia, as early as the time of Agatharcides; and it is
probable that these ships were navigated by Arabians, as the inhabitants of India were not, at this ... son of a merchant, and a merchant himself; and while trading in
Arabia for spices, he was taken prisoner and carried into Arabia, whence he was carried off by the Ethiopia...
... red-headed \ linnet 3 79/
(Latham, II. 305.) XIII. Dun flycatcher 390 (Latham, II. 351.) XIV. Sky-lark 39 4A. Alauda
arsensis 287 Wood-lark 395 B. Alauda arborea ib. XV. White wagtail 396 E. Motacilla
alba ... an advanced party, under the command of a subaltern, called
Lucas Moloskoff, who certainly penetrated into Kamtschatka, and returned with an account of his success
before Atla...