The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation
Hakluyt Richard
The book The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation was written by author Hakluyt Richard Here you can read free online of The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation a good or bad book?
What reading level is The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The winde this day at Northnortheast, faire weather. The 14 day they sent the skifFe to shore, and filled fresh water. The 1 5 day they rode still, being litle winde and fog. The 16 day the winde Eastsoutheast, they wayed ancre and set saile, bearing Northwards towards Astracan, and the same night they ancred in ten fathoms water, about five miles from the shore of the Shalkaules countrey, which place is eight leagues Northnorthwest from Derbent. The 17 day the winde at North very stormy, they ...rode still all that day and night. The 18 the winde all Southeast about one of the docke afternoone, they wayed ancre, and sailed thence till foure of the clocke Northnortheast sixe leagues, then they might see the land Northwest about tenne leagues from the winde Southeast : from thence they sailed til midnight Northnortheast twelve leagues. From thence till the 19 day seven a clocke in the [I. 428.] morning they sailed Northnortheast eight leagues : the winde then Eastsoutheast, a &ire gale, they sounded and had 17 fathoms, and sand, being (as the Master judged) about the head of Shetly : from thence till 12 of the clocke at noone they sailed North 5 leagues, the winde then at East a faire ^e, they sounded and had 5 fathoms.
User Reviews: