Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others, Ausgabe 28J. MacLehose and Sons, 1906 |
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Seite 173 - ... they have little mouthes, and moove their neckes from one side to another, as though they were astonished : their chiefe desire and delight is to cleave and sticke fast unto trees, or some other thing whereby they may...
Seite 182 - I saw how shee put of all her garments, and took out of a certain coffer sundry kindes of Boxes, of the which she opened one, and tempered the ointment therein with her fingers, and then rubbed her body therewith from the sole of the foot to the crowne of the head, and when she had spoken privily with her selfe, having the candle in her hand, she shaked the parts of her body, and behold, I perceived a plume of feathers did burgen out, her nose waxed crooked and hard, her nailes turned into clawes,...
Seite 140 - Governours house, so taught as the things he did seemed incredible. They sent him to the taverne for wine, putting the pot in one hand and the money in the other, and they could not possibly gette the money out of his hand before he had his pot full of wine.
Seite 303 - Indians vse our Spanish name Dios, fitting it to the accent or pronunciation of the Indian tongues, the which differ much, whereby appeares the small knowledge they had of God, seeing they cannot so much as name him, if it be not by our very name...
Seite 133 - Greekes, nor any other nations of the world. We must then say, that though all beasts came out of the Arke, yet by a naturall instinct and the providence of heaven, diverse kindes dispersed themselves into diverse regions, where they found themselves so well, as they woulde not parte; or if they departed, they did not preserve themselves, but in processe of time, perished wholy, as we do see it chaunce in many things.
Seite 166 - ... sortes. For summe of them synge pleasauntly: other, lyke owres of Spayne. Summe also whistle: and other summe make an other maner of noyse. They are lykewyse of dyvers colours: as summe greene, summe russette or grey, and summe almost blacke. But of all sortes, they are great, and fylthye, and noyous by reason of their great multitude: yet are they not venemous as I have sayde. There are also a straunge kynde of crabbes, whiche coome foorthe of certeyne holes of the earth that they them selves...
Seite 174 - ... also they creepe all about with their natural slownesse. I could never perceive other but that they love onely of Aire: because they ever turne their heads and mouthes toward that part where the wind bloweth most, whereby may be considered that they take most pleasure in the Aire. They bite not, nor yet can bite, having very little mouthes : they are not venemous or noyous any way, but altogether brutish, and utterly unprofitable and without commoditie yet known to men.
Seite 355 - ... augments and is preserved. In this moneth they make a particular sacrifice, and the witches demand of this...
Seite 495 - ... which being so many, high, and made of good stone, did seeme a beautifull thing. It was a strange sight to behold the Priests, some going up, and some downe, with ceremonies, or with men to be sacrificed. Upon the top of this Temple are two great Altars, a good space distant the one from the other, and so nigh the edge or brim of the wall, that scarsly a man may goe behinde them at pleasure.
Seite 32 - Some have discoursed and propounded to cut through this passage of seven leagues, and to joyne one Sea to the other, to make the passage from Peru more commodious and easie, for that these eighteene leagues of Land betwixt Nombre de Dios and Panama, is more painefull and chargeable then 2300.