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Purchas's Pilgrim. lib. 1. cap. 4. pag. 104. In the year 1619.
This done, his calculations completed, and the brig's position at noon pricked off on the chart, he once more hied him to Purchas's cabin, only to find the door locked from within.
The main contemporary collectors of materials for the history of the early voyages to America were Richard Eden, Richard Hakluyt, and Samuel Purchas. Samuel Purchas's first volume appeared in 1613 under the title, Purchas: His Pilgrimage of the World, or Religions Observed in all Ages and Places Discovered, from the Creation unto this Present.
The poet, having been reading from "Purchas's Pilgrimage" a brief description of the palace of the Great Khan, not the one above described, but a pleasure-retreat in another section of his dominions, fell asleep, and his dreams took the form of an extended poem on the subject.
Hakluyt's Voyages, vol. iii. p. 750 Purchas's Pilgrim, vol. i. p. 46. Having learned afterwards that Philip had seized the money, and had employed part of it against herself in Ireland, part of it in the pay of the prince of Parma's troops she determined to make no more restitutions.
It is melancholy to trace how the Indians have given way before the Spanish invaders. Schirdel says that in 1535, when Buenos Ayres was founded, there were villages containing two and three thousand inhabitants. Purchas's "Collection of Voyages."
He paused at Purchas's cabin, on his way on deck, and tried the door, but it was still locked from the inside; so he ascended the companion ladder and went out on deck.
The voyagers themselves wrote down the stories of their adventures; and collections of these Hakluyt's and Purchas's were among the most popular books of the age. To them, indeed, we must look for the first beginnings of our modern English prose, and some of its noblest passages.
Purchas that others would soon come and treat them worse. There was an old man by the name of Wakely, who had settled near the mouth of Presumpscot River, in Falmouth. His family consisted of nine persons. A week after the robbery of Mr. Purchas's house, a band of savages made a fierce onset upon this solitary cabin.
Medicine, however, was a branch of science about which Leslie happened to know little or nothing; but he readily acceded to Purchas's suggestion that he should have a look at the patient; and accordingly although by this time a substantial meal was set out upon the brig's cabin table, and the ex-lieutenant felt himself quite prepared to do ample justice to it he forthwith descended to the cabin in which the skipper was lying; and, having knocked at the door without getting a reply, entered.
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