The Manila GalleonE.P. Dutton, 1939 - 453 էջ |
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Acapulco Acapulco galleon Acuña America Anda Anson Antonio Antonio de Morga audiencia boletas Cadiz California Cape Captain Careri cargo carried Cavite China Chinese coast colony command commerce consulado crew Dampier Dasmariñas declared Dutch early East Indies Embocadero English Espediente expedition Filipinas fleet force foreign Francisco friars galleon trade Gemelli Careri gold Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas Governor harbor India islands islas Iyeyasu Japan Japanese José Juan junks junta king lading space Ladrones land later Legaspi Luzon Macao Madrid Manila Galleon Manileños merchandise merchants Mexican Mexico Moluccas Monterey Morga natives navigation Obando obras pias officials Orient Pacific Padre pancada Pedro permiso Peru pesos Philip Philippines pilot port Portuguese profit reached rich Rios Coronel route sailed Santa Santo sent ship silks silver South Spain Spaniards Spanish spice Straits tion traffic vessel Viana viceroy Vizcaino vols voyage Woodes Rogers wrote
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Էջ 322 - He was at first much pestered with cats and rats, that had bred in great numbers from some of each species which had got ashore from ships that put in there to wood and water. The rats gnawed his feet and clothes while asleep, which obliged him to cherish the cats with his goats...
Էջ 322 - The rats gnawed his feet and clothes while asleep, which obliged him to cherish the cats with his goats' flesh, by which many of them became so tame that they would lie about him in hundreds, and soon delivered him from the rats. He likewise tamed some kids, and to divert himself would now and then sing and dance with them and his cats; so that by the...
Էջ 304 - The matter of most profit unto me was a great ship of the King's, which I took at California ; which ship came from the Philippines, being one of the richest of merchandise that ever passed those seas, as the King's Register and the Merchants' Accounts did show : for it did amount in value to [sum omitted] in Mexico to be sold.
Էջ 265 - If the ah. then was fill'd with gnats; the ship swarms with little vermine, the Spaniards call Gorgojos, bred in the bisket; so swift that they in a short time not only run over cabins, beds, and the very dishes the men eat on, but insensibly fasten upon the body. Instead of the locusts, there are several other sorts of vermin of sundry colours, that suck the blood. Abundance of flies fall into the dishes of broth, in which there also swim worms of several sorts.
Էջ 251 - The voyge from the Philippine islands to America may be call'd the longest, and most dreadful of any in the world ; as well because of the vast ocean to be cross'd, being almost the one half of the terraqueous globe, with the wind always a-head; as for the terrible tempests that happen there, one upon the back of another, and for the desperate diseases that seize people, in seven or eight months lying at sea, sometimes near the line, sometimes cold, sometimes temperate, and sometimes hot, which is...
Էջ 304 - I navigated alongst the coast of Chili, Peru, and Nueva Espanna, where I made great spoiles : I burnt and sunke 19 sailes of ships small and great. All the villages and townes that ever I landed at, I burnt and spoiled : and had I not bene discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantitie of treasure.
Էջ 303 - Our general at this place and time, thinking himself both in respect of his private injuries received from the Spaniards, as also of their contempts and indignities offered to our country and prince in general, sufficiently satisfied, and revenged: and supposing that Her Majesty at his return would rest contented with this service, purposed to continue no longer upon the Spanish coasts, but began to consider and to consult of the best way for his country.
Էջ 265 - Moses miraculously converted his rod into a se[r]pent; aboard the galeon a piece of flesh, without any miracle, is converted into wood, and in the shape of a serpent. I had a good share in these misfortunes; for the boatswain, with whom I had agreed for my diet, as he had fowls at his table the first days, so when we were out at sea he made me fast after the Armenian manner, having banish'd from his table all wine, oil and vinegar; dressing his fish with fair water and salt.
Էջ 71 - ... of different shades; tablecloths, cushions, and carpets; horsetrappings of the same stuff, and embroidered with glass beads and seed-pearls; also some pearls and rubies, sapphires and crystal-stones; metal basins, copper kettles, and other copper and cast-iron pots; quantities of all sorts of nails, sheet-iron, tin and lead; saltpetre and gunpowder. They supply the Spaniards with wheat flour; preserves made of orange, peach 'scorzonera...
Էջ 267 - ... risque the perishing by the most dreadful of all deaths, on the expectation of so casual a circumstance. In short, their only method of recruiting their water is by the rains, which they meet with between the latitudes of 30 and 40° North, and which they are always prepared to catch : For this purpose they take to sea with them a great number of mats, which they place slopingly against the gunwale, whenever the rain descends ; these mats extend from one end of the ship to the other, and their...