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It is described in the so-called Voiage and Travaile of Sir JOHN MAUNDEVILLE in the following terms44: --
Bygone Beliefs 1969
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That quaint and credulous old author -- the earliest writer of English prose -- Sir John Mandeville, in his "Voiage," or account of his
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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Appule of; and that fynde thei writen "(" Voiage, "&c., cap.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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A description of a Voiage to Constantinople and Syria, begun the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Voiage of the bishop of Winchester to Ierusalem, in the sixt yeere of the reigne of Henry the fift, which was the yeere of our Lord, 1417.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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There is no such story in the _Voiage and Travaile_: nay more, there is not in the whole of that "ryght merveillous" book, a single passage given on the authority of Sir John as eyewitness that is not perfectly credible.
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Simeon Potter, on a Cruising Voiage Anno 1744, on oath declared that an Indian man Named Jeffery Potter was one of the Hands of said
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundeville_ -- the forerunner of that great library of Oriental travel which has enriched our modern literature -- was written, according to its author, first in Latin, then in French, and, lastly, in the year 1356, translated into English for the behoof of "lordes and knyghtes and othere noble and worthi men, that conne not Latyn but litylle."
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Sir John Mandeville's _Voiage and Travails_, 1356, Prester John is said to be a lineal descendant of Ogier the Dane.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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Brooke is now here to take his leave of me I hearily wish him a good Voiage and
Letter from Robert Carter to Messrs. Haswell & Brooks, May 29, 1732 1732
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