The Progress of Maritime Discovery From the Earliest Period to the Close of the
The Progress of Maritime Discovery From the Earliest Period to the Close of the
James Stanier Clarke
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1. 26. • Ibid, p. 47. Ch. 46. I 16. ' Ibid, p. 47. 1. 54, MARITIME DISCOVERY. Jaj yeare paft ; and I found our young men in health, yet much Ch. I. § 2. -_-, , r-^ rf 11 H Narrative of afflicted with penurie, as vjollet told me. ;?. ;V»y»;». For the remainder, or a more minute account of thefe early travels, the reader is referred to Purchas. Rubruquis arrived at the village " of Sumerkent on the fifteenth of Odober 1254; and pafling through the Porta Ferrea of Alexander, to which has been give...n the name of Derbetid^ he entered on a valley, in which the ruins of fome walls conftru(3:ed by the Macedonians were ftill vifi- ble. On the firft Sunday in Lent, 1255, the travellers arrived in the dominions of the " Soldan of Turkey ; and hearing at * Curcum^ a port of Cilicia, that Louis the eleventh had returned to France, they propofed to embark at Tripoli : their intentions were however prevented by the Provincial. , whom they found at Nicofia. Rubru- quis therefore difpatched a meflenger to carry the above relation to his fovereign, accompanied with the following epiftle : — And our Provinciall determined, that I Jhould leave * Aeon, not f'iffering me to come unto you ; commanding to write unto you, ivhat I luould by the bearer of thefe prefents.
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