encompassed

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We have, however, two cotemporaries of Sir Francis Drake, who confirm the statement of the World Encompassed.

From The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery by Twiss, Travers

"Sing" is given as Gnaah in The World Encompassed, the Yurok word being wer-o-rur.

From Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579 by Heizer, Robert F.

IV; and the Hakluyt Society Proceedings, 1854, which are really a reprint of The World Encompassed, by Francis Fletcher, the chaplain, in 1628, with the addition of documents contemporary with Fletcher's by unknown writers.

From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

But it is incorrect to refer to Fletcher’s journal, as the source of the assumed false statements in the World Encompassed.

From The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery by Twiss, Travers

Encompassed by his Gods of Storm He summoned Rambhá, fair of form, And spoke a speech for woe and weal, The saint to mar, the God to heal.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)