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" On the banks of these rivers were divers sorts of fruits good to eat, flowers and trees of such variety as were sufficient to make ten volumes of Herbals ; we relieved ourselves many times with the fruits of the country, and sometimes with fowl and fish.... "
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English ... - Page 387
by Richard Hakluyt - 1904
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The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and ..., Volume 2

Sir Walter Raleigh - British Guiana - 1751 - 418 pages
...were fure to ftarve by the Way, and that the World would alfo laugh us to fcorn. On the Banks of thefe Rivers were divers Sorts of Fruits good to eat, Flowers and Trees of that Variety as were fufficient to make ten Volumes of Herbals. We relieved ourfelves many Times with...
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Sir Walter Raleigh - Great Britain - 1829 - 810 pages
...returned, that we were sure to starve by the way, and that the world would also laugh us to scorn. On the banks of these rivers were divers sorts of fruits good to eat, flowers and trees of that variety as were sufficient to make ten volumes of herbals. We relieved ourselves many times with...
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The works of sir Walter Ralegh. To which are prefixed the lives of ..., Volume 8

sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 pages
...returned, that we were sure to starve by the way, and that the world would also laugh us to scorn. On the banks of these rivers were divers sorts of fruits good to eat, flowers and trees of that variety as were sufficient to make ten volumes of herbals. We relieved ourselves many times with...
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Life of Sir Walter Raleigh: Founded on Authentic and Original Documents ...

Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 424 pages
...negro servant of the admiral's, who had gone into the water to bathe. " On the banks," says Raleigh, " were divers sorts of fruits good to eat, flowers and trees of that variety as were sufficient to make ten volumes of herbals. We relieved ourselves many times with...
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Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, Founded on Authentic and Original Documents

Patrick Fraser Tytler - Explorers - 1853 - 454 pages
...negro servant of the admiral's, who had gone into the water to bathe. " On the banks," says Raleigh, " were divers sorts of fruits good to eat, flowers and trees of that variety as were sufficient to make ten volumes of herbals. We relieved ourselves many times with...
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Life of Sir Walter Ralegh

Louise Creighton - Great Britain - 1877 - 304 pages
...now in five degrees." The variety of the scenery did something towards cheering them 0n their way. "On the banks of these rivers were divers sorts of...and trees of such variety as were sufficient to make ten volumes of herbals. We relieved ourselves many times with the fruits of the country, and sometimes...
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The Discovery of Guiana, and the Journal of the Second Voyage Thereto

Sir Walter Raleigh - America - 1886 - 262 pages
...returned that we were sure to starve by the way, and that th<y world would nlso laugh us to , scorn. On the banks of these rivers were divers sorts of fruits good to eat, flowers and trees of that variety as were sufficient to make ten volumes of herbuls; we relieved ourselves many times with...
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The Voyages of the English Nation to America, Volume 4

Richard Hakluyt - America - 1890 - 272 pages
...trees of such variety, as were sufficient to make tenne volumes of herbals : we relieued our selues many times with the fruits of the countrey, and sometimes...birds of all colours, some carnation, some crimson, orerjge-tawny, purple, watchet, and of all other sorts both simple and mixt, and it was vnto vs a great...
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The Voyages of the English Nation to America, Volumes 3-4

Richard Hakluyt - America - 1890 - 672 pages
...the way, and that the world would also laugh vs to scorne. On the banks of these riuers were diuers sorts of fruits good to eat, flowers and trees of...were sufficient to make tenne volumes of herbals : we relieued our selues many times with the fruits of the countrey, and sometimes with fowle and fish....
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A Book of English Prose: Character and Incident, 1387-1649

William Ernest Henley, Charles Whibley - English prose literature - 1894 - 452 pages
...we returned that we were sure to starve by the way, and that the world would also laugh us to scorn. On the banks of these rivers were divers sorts of fruits good to eat, flowers and trees of that variety as were sufficient to make ten volumes of herbals ; we relieved ourselves many times with...
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