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Of certaine Ilands called the Ilands of Margaulx, and of the kinds of beas and birds that there are found.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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A description of the fortunate Ilands, otherwise called the Ilands of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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In that essay, they address a narrow question: the date of A True Reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight; upon, and from the Ilands of the Bermudas by William Strachey.
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The said Island is throughly inhabited, and is thought to be one of the principall Ilands of the whole world.
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Generall Drake, according to their apointment, being vnder saile neuer strooke at the Ilands, but put straight to sea; whom all the fleet followed sauing three and thirty, which being in the riuer further then he, and at the entrance out of the same, finding the winde and tide too hard against them, were inforced to cast ancre there for that night; amongst whom, by good fortune, was the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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All these Ilands ioyntly are one bishopricke, which pay to the bishop twelue thousand duckats yeerely.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And in the height of 38. degrees, about the end of August, grew another great storme, in which all the fleet sauing 48. sailes were cast away: which 48. sailes kept together, vntill they came in sight of the Ilands of Coruo and Flores, about the fift or sixt of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Iland of Canaria is almost equal in length and bredth, containing 12 leagues in length, touching the which as principall and the residue, the Spanyards holde opinion, that they discouered the same in their nauigation toward America, but the Portugals say, that their nation first found the sayd Ilands in their nauigation toward Aethiopia and the East Indies.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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To this city from all the other Ilands come all such by appeale, as haue sustained any wrong, and these good Iudges do remedy the same.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The long pepper groweth in Bengala, in Pegu, and in the Ilands of the Iauas.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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