Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	east_n	north_n	sail_v	1,645	5	10.3744	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03066	Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique Describing especially the two famous empires, the Persian, and the great Mogull: weaved with the history of these later times as also, many rich and spatious kingdomes in the orientall India, and other parts of Asia; together with the adjacent iles. Severally relating the religion, language, qualities, customes, habit, descent, fashions, and other observations touching them. With a revivall of the first discoverer of America. Revised and enlarged by the author.; Relation of some yeares travaile	Herbert, Thomas, Sir, 1606-1682.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 13191; ESTC S119691	376,722	394

their teeth and tongues are mortally venemous the other parts eaten without hurt If ere the Salamander hap to bite thee Thy coffin and thy winding sheet invite thee Si mordu t' a une Arissade Pren's ton linceul é la flassade We have said enough let my vale-dictum now be this the Land mournes to see it selfe so trod upon by a people strangers to God and vertue concealing such usefull treasures and making unusefull so many ports obscured farre beyond her meriting seated so advantagiously for traffique with all the world both the Indies possible to be awed by her and vicinating those golden countries of Mozambiq ' Quiloa Soffala Mombassa Magadoxa and other parts of Aegisimba proffering also many petty Ilands under her as those of Cumrho Primero Mascarenas Castle I le Moritius Dygarrois and Englands Forrest environing and in a sort defending her upon occasions Mozambique Vndique dant saltus multaque aspergine rorant Emerguntque itetum redeuntque sub aequora rursus Inque chori ludunt speciem lascivaque jactant Corpora acceptum patulis mare maribus efflant On every side they leap and dew their fyn Advance from Sea and bathe againe therein In sport and measur'd dances nimbly fling Themselves whilst seas do from their nostrils spring Six leagues north-North-East from the last land we discried another Ile full of Palmeto trees the current here set us 20 leagues forward in 24 houres the latitude of this Ile 16 degrees and a halfe longitude 21 degrees and 28 min. thus shaped Castle Iland The 7 of September we discried land it prov'd Meortey one of the Iles of Chumro seated at the North end of Madagascar It rises very high to the East as we sailed by it mounts in a piramid and views far into the Ocean It s latitude is 12 degr 56 min. South and longitude 23 degr 59 min. in this shape profering it selfe unto my Table book Meottys Ile These Iles call'd the Iles of Cumro be 5 either because Chumro or Cumr-yne the Welshmens Ile is greater than the rest or that it was first discovered named Cumro Meottis Ioanna Mohelia Gazidia by others thus St. Iohn di Castro Spirito Sancto Sancto Christofero Anguzezia and Mayotto each of them excellent for refreshing passengers abounding with delicate fruit and such cattell as are had at easie prices none of them are above a hundred miles about yet very populous and full of natures blessings Chumro is the highest and best land but branded with the most subtle and bloody Savages Ioanna has courteous people and such as readily help strangers in necessity It lately obeyed a Queen rectrix much commended for sagacity but now submits to a King who tho tyrannicall yet better so as Tacitus protests than be anarchicall to these Iles we sent our boates ashoare intending to ride at Mohelia and returned with Oxen and Buffolls Goats and variety of Fruits all which were very heartily wellcomed And tho our Randezvous be now in sight suffer me whiles in memory to tell you of a fish or 2 which in these seas were obvious The Sea Tortoise is not much differing from those at land her house or shell is only flatter Sea Tortoyse by overturning them they are easily taken disabled then to sinck or help themselves some we tooke for pastime more than food they taste waterish and inforce fluxes they superabound in eggs in those we took every one having neere 2000 pale and round but never made hard though extremely boyled some eat them and the flesh or fish as you please to call it but by the Leviticall law it was forbidden and tho our religion consists not in ceremonies ending in the prototipe our Saviour yet except famine or novelty so invite mee with such cates my pallat craves not to be refreshed The Mannatee is good meat and from their using the shoare have a fleshie taste resembling in shew and eating Veale Mannaty a strange fish the intralls differing little from a Cow and from whom in respect of its phisnomy some new name her her face is like a Buffolos her eyes small and round hard gums in stead of teeth the stone generated in the head is most valuable soveraigne against choler adust the stone chollick and dissentery so it be beat small infus'd in wine and drunk fasting the body of this fish is commonly 3 yards long and one broad slow in swimming wanting fins in their place ayded with 2 paps which are not only suckles but stilts to creep a shoare upon such time shes grazes where shes sleep long sucking the coole Ayre unable contrary to other watery inhabitants to be halfe an houre under water are famoused like Lizards for their love to man whose face they delight to look upon and in weaknesse have refreshed them tho most unhappy to our Captaine Andrew Evans who by striking one at the Moritius with his harping-iron and leaping into the sea to make short work with his steletto was so crusht that he dyed shortly after as I speak in our description of St. Helena were we intombed him The Carvel The Carvell is a meere sea fome every where floating upon the surface of the Ocean of a globous forme like so many lines throwing abroad her strings which she can spread at pleasure angling for small fishes which she captivates at leisure a sea spider she may be cal'd for when she sees her webb too weak she can blow an infectious breath foming death or such a sting as if she had borrowed it from the Scorpion We are now ready to cast Anchor hopefull of fresh refreshment September the eleventh we rode in five and twenty fadoms the ensuing morne wafting neerer shoare dropping it againe in seventeene fathoms at the West side of Mohelia a bow shot from a small scatter'd village of straw unworthy a name yet called Meriangwy governed by a Sha-bander Alicusary by name a blacke big-bon'd knave savage in shew but slie and crafty in curtesie and bartring Mohelyae pars Insulae Mohelia elevates the Pole Antartick twelve degrees fifteene minutes has longitude from the Meridian of the Cape of good Hope foure and twenty degrees and variation of the Compasse 16 degrees 20 minutes is about threescore miles in circuit from Cumroh South East 14 leagues and from Ioannae East and by South about 10 the Marittim places rising gently the inland woody and mountanous a little village here and there scattered the houses are of reeds and straw fitted to the heat of such a torrid climate Moella some pronounce it Molala others and worst of all one Best thinking the derivation would carry it Mal-Ilha or bad Ile an incongruity that from his ill judgement so sweet and usefull a place should be defamed From Madagascar it is removed about 50 leagues from Quiloa in the Africk continent sixty the Inhabitants are a mixture of Gentiles and Mahomitans the Portugall has preacht Christ but have few Proselites some fragments of their language take thus