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The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555)

Note 285 — A true and agreeable description of some principal Indian lands and islands, which have not been recorded in former chronicles, but have now been first explored amid great danger during the voyage of Ulrich Schmidt of Straubing, and most carefully described by him. (continued 2)

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Puerto de Santa Maria.

[286] Cadiz.

[287] Large merchantmen. The word “hulk” expresses a different meaning, nearer the original, derived from the Greek ὅλκας, a ship which is towed, from ἕλκειν, to draw, drag. Hence the sense of something bulky or unwieldy.

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