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Thei haue many flockes of shiepe, and goates, and other small catteile, whose milke and flesshe they eate.
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As for sheepe and goates they tend and milke them, aswell the men as the women.
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Then laye they a goates horne on the toppe and departe, biddinge sorrowe go plaie him.
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They are brought vpon raftes made of goates skinnes blowne full of winde and bordes layde vpon them: and thereupon they lade their goods which are brought downe to Babylon, which being discharged they open their skinnes and carry them backe by Camels, to serue another time.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They spake all one language: their chiefe feeding was gelt dogges, goates, and goates milke, their bread was made of barley meale and goates milke, called Gofia, which they vse at this day, and thereof
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Besides great store of goates skinnes, whereof great numbers are shipped out of the countrey.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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As for sheepe and goates they tend and milke them, aswell the men as the women.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They be theeues all and haue no setled dwelling, but remoue from place to place with their Camels, goates, and horses, wiues and children and all.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Certaine goates whereat we shotte fled vp to the high cliffes, so that it was impossible to get them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This Island (as Iohn Huighen van Linschotten describeth it) is replenished with manifold commodities, as namely with goates, wilde swine, Turkies, partridges, pidgeons, &c.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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