The History of North Atlantic Steam Navigation: With Some Account of Early Ships and Shipowners

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S. Low, Marston, 1896 - 324 страница

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Страница 7 - ... to sail to all parts, countries, and seas of the east, of the west, and of the north...
Страница 255 - Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Страница 37 - As to the project, however, which was announced in the newspapers, of making the voyage directly from New York to Liverpool, it was, he had no hesitation in saying, perfectly chimerical; and they might as well talk of making a voyage from New York or Liverpool to the moon.
Страница iv - Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, And HE bringeth them out of their distresses. HE maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So HE bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Страница iv - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
Страница 8 - Cham ; he coasted for three hundred leagues and landed ; saw no human beings, but he has brought hither to the king certain snares which had been set to catch game, and a needle for making nets ; he also found some felled trees, wherefore he supposed there were inhabitants, and returned to his ship in alarm.
Страница 2 - For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram : every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, '" ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Страница 9 - Prima vista, that is to say, first scene; because, as I suppose, it was that part whereof they had the first sight from sea. That island which lieth out before the land he called the Island of St John upon this occasion, as I thinke, because it was discovered upon the day of John the Baptist.
Страница 35 - Willcox & Anderson, for £10,000 sterling, and chartered to the Portuguese Government to take out troops for Don Pedro's service, and on my arrival in Lisbon offered to them for sale as a vessel of war, but rejected by their admiral, Count Cape Saint Vincent, the present admiral Sir Charles Napier.
Страница 9 - The king has also given him money wherewith to amuse himself till then, and he is now at Bristol with his wife, who is also a Venetian, and with his sons; his name is Juan Cabot, and he is styled the great admiral.

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