Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society, 第 77 卷

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The Society, 1888
 

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第 102 頁 - By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.
第 viii 頁 - Surely at this day with us of Europe the vantage of strength at sea (which is one of the principal dowries of this kingdom of Great Britain) is great ; both because most of the kingdoms of Europe are not merely inland, but girt with the sea most part of their compass ; and because the wealth of both Indies seems in great part but an accessory to the command of the seas.
第 104 頁 - I have heard that this is observed amongst them, that by how much the nobler a woman is, by so much the higher are her chapineys. All their gentlewomen, and most of their wives and widows that are of any wealth, are assisted and supported either by men or women when they walk abroad, to the end they may not fall. They are borne up most commonly by the left arm, otherwise they might quickly take a fall.
第 39 頁 - ... slave-dealing of the Portuguese became such a scandal, that in 1599 the king issued an order calling attention to the cruelty with which slaves were treated. A clever observer, Pyrard de Laval, assigned slavery as one or the chief causes of the downfall of their power. He speaks of American slaves " exported to Portugal, and to all places under the Portuguese dominion. The Portuguese carry off the children, seducing them by fair speeches, and leading them away and hiding them, both little and...
第 270 頁 - And the two good fathers of S. Paul, who trauelled very much for us, the one of them is called Padre Marke, who was borne in Bruges in Flanders, and the other was borne in Wilshire in England, and is called Padre Thomas Steuens.
第 81 頁 - Palace [for him], so that there stayeth not a stoole or bench within [the house], nor one pennie in the treasure, but they leave the house as bare and naked [as possible may be] so that- the new Viceroy must make provision for to furnish it, and gather a new treasure.
第 95 頁 - ... sulphur and painted with flames of fire ; the difference between those that have to die and the rest being that their flames are turned upwards and the others downwards. They are led straight to the great church or A See which is hard by the prison, and are there during the mass and the sermon, wherein they receive the most strenuous remonstrances. Thereafter they are conducted to the Campo Sancto Lazaro, where the condemned are burned in the presence of the rest, who look...
第 169 頁 - a kind of incense, derived from the resin of the Styrax benzoin, Dryander, in Sumatra, and from an undetermined species in Siam".
第 130 頁 - ... good suits and engaged a few slaves to wait and cook. At home they would sit about in loose shirts and pyjama trousers, playing the guitar or gossiping with those who passed, but when they went out, which they did in rotation, the grand suits were put on. 'You would say they were lords,' says Pyrard, 'with an income of 10,000 livres, such is their bravery, with their slaves behind them and a man carrying over them a big parasol. There are places where these slaves are to be hired and one can...
第 216 頁 - Nowe to returne to Fernambuck inhabited by a Portugall Captaine called Duarte Coelio, it is the greatest towne in all that coast, and hath above three thousand houses in it, with seventie Ingenios for sugar, and great store of Brasill-wood and abundance of cotton, yet are they in great want of victuals : for all their victuals come either from Portugall or from some places upon the coast of Brasill.

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