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Purchas wrote a nearly contemporary history of this voyage that included three strictly contemporary documents: two of them certainly written aboard the "Discovery"; and the third either written aboard the ship on the voyage home, as is possible, or not long after the ship had arrived in England. The first of these documents is "An Abstract of the Journal of Master Henry Hudson."
Purchas acknowledges that he had unpublished manuscripts of Smith when he compiled his narrative. Did Smith see Strachey's manuscript before he published his Oxford tract, or did Strachey enlarge his own notes from Smith's description? It has been usually assumed that Strachey cribbed from Smith without acknowledgment.
"H'm, what has he here?" soliloquized his Excellency. "'Purchas; His Pilgrimes, of course; 'General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles, well and good; 'Good News from Virginia, humph! that must have been before my time; 'Public Good without Private Interest, humph! What's this? 'Areopagitica, John Milton! John Hypocrite and Parricide!
The calm continued throughout Leslie's watch; and when at eight bells he turned over the charge of the deck to Purchas, the brig, save for an occasional lazy and almost imperceptible heave on the now invisible swell, was as motionless as a house.
He was a diligent student of the texts of the voyagers, and himself edited out of Hakluyt and Purchas the best collection of them current in his day. Crusoe's conversation with the man Friday will be found to be a satire of Locke's famous controversy with the Bishop of Worcester. With Robinson Crusoe the influence of the age of discovery finally perishes.
In this, state of uncertainty, it is therefore made a section by itself, detached in some measure from the regular series of the Portuguese discoveries. Astley, I. 15. Clarke, I. 290. Purchas, I. Harris, I. 664. Clarke, I. 295. These may possibly be the nuts of the Ricinus Palma Christi, from which the castor oil is extracted.
And I have not very much fear as to the result. But, as to Miss Trevor, I hope you will seize the first suitable opportunity that occurs to trans-ship her. She, poor girl, will now be more anxious than ever to get away from this vessel." "Yes, yes; of course she will," agreed Purchas.
He now suggested that they should both go below and subject their patient to a closer examination which they did. As Purchas had already remarked, there was no apparent improvement in Potter's condition; on the contrary, when Leslie felt his pulse it seemed to him that it was weaker.
I have had eight hours in, and four hours the four hours of the middle watch on deck, having undertaken to stand watch and watch with Purchas during the skipper's indisposition, the mention of which brings me to the point of asking you, Miss Trevor, whether you will permit me to enter your cabin for the purpose of removing a medicine-chest that, I understand from the mate, is there."
Such scenes make one wish that more of his time had been given to literary work, rather than to the disputes and troubles of his own Scotch kirk. HAKLUYT AND PURCHAS. Two editors of this age have made for themselves an enviable place in our literature.
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