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Article JOHN COUSTOS, FOR FREEMASONRY, ← Page 4 of 4 Article A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION. Page 1 of 2 →
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John Coustos, For Freemasonry,
quences with Avhich my confinement might very possibly be attended . ' . . ' I passed a Avhole day and tAvo ni ghts in these terrors , Avhich are the more difficult to describe , as they Avere heightened at every little interval by the complaints , the dismal cries , and hollow groans ( echoing through this dreadful mansion ) Of several other prisoners
neih-, my g bours ; and ivhich the solemn silence of the ni ght made infinitely more shocking . At this present it appeared tome tliat time had lost all mation , and these threescore hours seemed as so many years .
' [ To be continued . J
A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION .
IN SEVERAL ESSAYS . - ' ( Continued from Vol . II . Page 3 6 . /
ESSAY V .- Voyages to Iceland , Greenland , & c . FROM the voyages to Greenland there is a long chasm , fill 13-44 , AvhenAA'e have an account that one Macham , an Englishman , having stolen a Avoman , Avith whom he was in love , and intended to fly Avith her into Spain , Avas by a storm cast upon the island Madeirain
thirty-, tiA'o degrees of north latitude . Going ashore there Avith his mistress to refresh her after the toils of the sea , the ship taking the opportunity of ~ a favourable gale sailed aAvay leaying them behincl . The lady soon ' died for grief of bein g left in that desolate island ; and Macham , with what companions he had , erected a little chapel and hermitage , under ¦ the invocation of the name of Jesus , to bury her . This done ,
theycontrived a boat mac [ e of one single tree , in which they got over to the coast of 'Africa , Avhere they were taken by the Moors , and presented to their king for the rarity of the accident , He , for the same reason , sent them to . the king of Castile , Avhere , giving an account of Avhat had b ' efall e ^ them , it moved many to venture out in search of this island . This story we find in Hakluyt , vol , II . page 1 , where he quotes Anthony Galvaqj
a Portuguese author , fork ; and D . Antonio Manoelin his works , among his Epanaforas , has one en this particular subject , which he calls Epanaf jra Amorosa . Upon this information , as was' said , several adventurers went out , but to no effect that Ave can hear of , till anno 134 S v / hen John Betancourt , a Frenchman , obtained a grant of king John the second , of Castile , and went to conquer the Canary islands , long fefore discovered , and made himself master of ' five of them , but coukl
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John Coustos, For Freemasonry,
quences with Avhich my confinement might very possibly be attended . ' . . ' I passed a Avhole day and tAvo ni ghts in these terrors , Avhich are the more difficult to describe , as they Avere heightened at every little interval by the complaints , the dismal cries , and hollow groans ( echoing through this dreadful mansion ) Of several other prisoners
neih-, my g bours ; and ivhich the solemn silence of the ni ght made infinitely more shocking . At this present it appeared tome tliat time had lost all mation , and these threescore hours seemed as so many years .
' [ To be continued . J
A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION .
IN SEVERAL ESSAYS . - ' ( Continued from Vol . II . Page 3 6 . /
ESSAY V .- Voyages to Iceland , Greenland , & c . FROM the voyages to Greenland there is a long chasm , fill 13-44 , AvhenAA'e have an account that one Macham , an Englishman , having stolen a Avoman , Avith whom he was in love , and intended to fly Avith her into Spain , Avas by a storm cast upon the island Madeirain
thirty-, tiA'o degrees of north latitude . Going ashore there Avith his mistress to refresh her after the toils of the sea , the ship taking the opportunity of ~ a favourable gale sailed aAvay leaying them behincl . The lady soon ' died for grief of bein g left in that desolate island ; and Macham , with what companions he had , erected a little chapel and hermitage , under ¦ the invocation of the name of Jesus , to bury her . This done ,
theycontrived a boat mac [ e of one single tree , in which they got over to the coast of 'Africa , Avhere they were taken by the Moors , and presented to their king for the rarity of the accident , He , for the same reason , sent them to . the king of Castile , Avhere , giving an account of Avhat had b ' efall e ^ them , it moved many to venture out in search of this island . This story we find in Hakluyt , vol , II . page 1 , where he quotes Anthony Galvaqj
a Portuguese author , fork ; and D . Antonio Manoelin his works , among his Epanaforas , has one en this particular subject , which he calls Epanaf jra Amorosa . Upon this information , as was' said , several adventurers went out , but to no effect that Ave can hear of , till anno 134 S v / hen John Betancourt , a Frenchman , obtained a grant of king John the second , of Castile , and went to conquer the Canary islands , long fefore discovered , and made himself master of ' five of them , but coukl