Chronological History of the Discovery and Settlement of Guiana ..."Royal Gazette" Office, 1888 - Guiana |
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Chronological History of the Discovery and Settlement of Guiana James Rodway,Thomas Watt No preview available - 2018 |
Chronological History of the Discovery and Settlement of Guiana: 1493-1668 ... James Rodway No preview available - 2015 |
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adventure aforesaid afterwards Amazon Arrawacks arrived Articles Arwaccas Barbados Berbice BERREO Brazil Brazil wood BYAM canoes Captain captured Caribs Cayenne Chamber of Zeeland coast Colonists Colony command Commandeur Corentyne Council DEMERARA enemies England English Essequebo estates expedition Francis Lord Willoughby French Georgetown gold Government Governor granted Guiana guilders HARCOURT Heires and Assignes Heires and Successors Hide theire Heires Holland Indians inhabitants island KEYMIS King Kyk-over-al land Lawrence Hide letter Majesty Majesty's Middelburg Moruca natives negroes Nova Zeelandia Orinoco OROONOKO Oyapok Patroons peace persons plantations planters Pomeroon Portuguese possession present proceeded Province provisions quebo river river Amazon ROBERT HARCOURT ROYAL GAZETTE sailed sent settlement settlers ship Sir WALTER RALEIGH slaves soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish sugar Surinam Surinam River thence thereof tobacco took town trade treaty Trinidad tyme to tyme unto voyage Warrows West India Company West Indies Willoughby and Lawrence Zeeland
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Page 117 - ... him where to lie down in safety, and sleep amidst the falls of waters and melody of nightingales. Her part was to watch and hold him awake in her arms, for fear of her countrymen, and wake him on occasions to consult his safety.
Page 117 - In this manner did the lovers pass away their time till they had learned a language of their own, in which the voyager communicated to his mistress how happy he should be to have her in his country, where she should be...
Page 67 - ... of our especial grace, certain knowledge,- and mere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do...
Page 118 - ... clothed in such silks as his waistcoat was made of, and be carried in houses drawn by horses, without being exposed to wind or weather. All this he promised her the enjoyment of, without such fears and alarms as they were there tormented with.
Page 116 - Our adventurer was the third son of an eminent citizen, who had taken particular care to instil into his mind an early love of gain, by making him a...
Page 69 - May, in the sixteenth year of our Reign, of England, France and Ireland; and of Scotland the one and fiftieth.
Page 32 - When we ran to the tops of the first hills of the plains adjoining to the river, we beheld that wonderful breach of waters, which ran down Caroli: and might from that mountain see the river how it ran in three parts, above twenty miles off, and there appeared some ten or twelve overfalls in sight, every one as high over the other as a Church tower, which fell with that fury, that the rebound of waters made it seem, as if it had been all covered over with a great shower of rain: and in some places...
Page 116 - ... ever since there were men and women, let us take facts from plain people, and from such as have not either ambition or capacity to embellish their narrations with any beauties of imagination. I was the other day amusing myself with Ligon's Account of Barbadoes...
Page 68 - Raleigh contained an express proviso that their laws ' should not be against the true Christian faith, now professed in the church of England.
Page 117 - If the European was highly charmed with the limbs, features, and wild graces of the naked American, the American was no less taken with the dress, complexion, and shape of an European, covered from head to foot. The Indian grew immediately enamoured of him, and consequently solicitous for his preservation : she therefore conveyed him to...