The History of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands, 2권D. Chamberlaine & J. Williams, 1767 |
기타 출판본 - 모두 보기
자주 나오는 단어 및 구문
againſt Albano Alcalde Major Alegranza almoſt alſo Barbary barks becauſe beſt blige blows boats called Canary Iſlands Cape Negro Chriftian church cloſe clouds coaft coaſt confequently confiderable corn defcended diſtance eaft English eſpecially faid fame fea-breeze feemed feen fent fervant ferve feven fhall fhip fhore fhrub fide filk fiſh fituated fmall fome foon fouth fouth-west fouthward freſh Friars ftands ftones ftrong fuch fummit gentry GEORGE GLAS Gomera Gran Canaria Guanches Hierro himſelf houfe houſe inhabitants Inquifition laft Lancerota land laſt leagues Luzman miles moft moſt mountains muſt natives obferved occafion orchilla-weed perfon Pike Point Nago Port Orotava Porto prifon purpoſe reafon reft road rocks Santa Cruz ſeems ſeen ſhip ſhore ſhould ſmall ſome Spain Spaniards Spaniſh ſteep Tenerife Teno thefe iflands themſelves theſe iſlands thofe thoſe town trade trade-wind trees uſe veffels weather weft Weſt Indies wind wine
인기 인용구
107 페이지 - On the top of this rock grows a tree, called in the language of the ancient inhabitants, Garse, ie Sacred or Holy Tree, which for many years has been preserved sound, entire and fresh.
107 페이지 - The great cattle are watered at those fountains, and at a place where water distils from the leaves of a tree. Many writers have made mention of this famous tree...
107 페이지 - We obferved the foil where it grew " to be very ftony ; and, upon the niceft en" quiry we could afterwards make, both of " the natives of the countiy and the Spanifli " inhabitants, we could not learn there was " any fuch tree known throughout New Spain, 'nor " nor perhaps all America over : but I do not "" relate this as a prodigy in nature, becaufe I " am not philofopher enough to afcribe any " natural caufe for it ; the learned may, per" haps, give fubftantial reafon in nature, for " what appeared...
107 페이지 - WE could not help looking on this as H" quor fent from heaven to comfort and fup" port us under great extremity. We catched " what we could of it in our hands, and drank " very plentifully of it, and liked it fo well " that we could hardly prevail with ourfelves. " to give over. A matter of this nature could " not but excite us to make the ftricteft obfer...
91 페이지 - ... until the fun arofe. When we defcended to the clouds, in returning from the Pike, and entered within them, they appeared to us as a thick fog or mift, of the...
91 페이지 - ... furface of them was not quite fo blue and fmooth, but had the appearance of very white wool ; and where this cloudy ocean, as I may call it, touched the fhore, it feemed to foam like billows breaking on *he more.
107 페이지 - We could not help looking on this as liquor fent from heaven to comfort us under great extremity. We caught what we could of it in our hands, and drank very plentifully of it ; and liked it fo well, that we could hardly prevail with ourfelves to give over.
107 페이지 - On the morning of the fourth day we came out on a large plain, where were great numbers of fine deer, and in the middle flood a tree of unufual fize, fpreading its branches over a vaft compafs of ground.
107 페이지 - What comes from the black kind is bitter, but that which the white yields is sweet and palatable.
87 페이지 - ... a mile, we came to the upper edge of the wood above the clouds, where we alighted, made a fire, and fupped ; fome time after •we lay down to fteep under the bufhes. About half an hour after ten, the moon...