The book Hakluytus Posthumus was written by author Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626 Here you can read free online of Hakluytus Posthumus book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Hakluytus Posthumus a good or bad book?
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Tortoises able to goe with foure men on their backes, and to hold ten men sitting on the inside of the shell, (unkind Guests eating their Host, non hospes ab hospite tutus) store of Fowles, desolate and 201 Digitized by Google A.D. 1598. Dec, 26. 1598. Speedy Voyage to and fro the Indies^ in 15. M. Tuhan, Jortam, Madura, Treacherie. PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES dis-habited, by man or beast : they left there Hennes, and sowed a certaine Plaine with divers seeds. The other three ships having watered at ...Saint Maries, (able to yeeld little else) came to Bantam, in the end of the yeere, who suspected them to be the same which formerly had beene there, and refused Trade, till they sent Abdol a Chinois (carried into Holland by the former Fleet) with Presents to the King then an In^t, and Cephate the Protector, and procured Trafficke. Foure weekes after came in the other five ships, many of them sicke, and thirtie five dead. The Bantameses having ejected the Portugals, now brought them store of provision, used them kindly, ad- mired their Pewter, and for one Spoone gave as much food as would serve a man a weeke.
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