THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Vaz, Pedro, Portuguese pilot at 

 Sierra Leone (1582) xi. 177. 



Vazabaris, Enseada de, bay men- 

 tioned in Ruttier, xi. 77. 



Veadore, chief man in Benin, vi. 



459- 



Vedagoba, English trade in (1575) 

 III. 199; Lapp fishing at (1588) 

 404. 



Veii, ' walking-houses ' of Tartars, 

 m. 396. 



Vela, Cape de la. Sir John Hawkins 

 at (1568) IX. 401, (1565) X. 37, 

 (1568) 66 ; Andrew Barker at (1576) 

 84; description of, Sir Francis 

 Drake at (1595) 233 ; Sir Anthony 

 Sherley at (1596) 272; mentioned 

 in the Ruttier, 288; latitude of, 

 335 ; pearl trade at, xi. 237. 



Velas, Islas de las, see Ladrones. 



Velasco, Don Luis de, viceroy of 

 Mexico (1558) IX. 356; discovery 

 of the Philippines by, xi. 287. 



Velasco de Varre, Don Juan de, 

 general of the Spanish fleets (1570) 

 IX. 460; and the English prison- 

 ers sent to Spain (1570) 459. 



Veles, Port of, from Cape Blanco to, 

 XI. 361 ; from, to S. John Port, 

 362. 



Velez Malaga, William Harborne at 

 (1583) V. 243. 



Veline, lake, petrifying waters of 

 the, IV. 37, 132. 



Veloso, Manoel, slave of, in Peru 

 (1581) XI. 38. 



Veneseander, value of, v. 511. 



Venetiano, Benedetto, slave in Tri- 

 polis (Africa) (1584) v. 304. 



Venetians, home products of the, 11. 

 124; in league with the Turks, 

 III. 28; merchants at Aleppo (1566) 

 57; and trade with Armenians 

 (1568) 139; consul of the Com- 

 pany of, in Tripolis (Syria), his 

 present to Solyman, v. 108. 



Venetus, Paulus, his map, iii. 459 ; 

 in Cathay, vii. 166, 170. 



Venezuela, province of, despoiled by 

 Agira, x. 363 ; Indians of, and the 

 gold of Guiana, 366. 



Venice, a month's sailing from Tri- 

 polis, III. 57 ; ships of, lost at sea 

 (1588) IV. 230; body of Empress 



Helena preserved at, 272 ; death 

 of the Duke of Norfolk at (1399) 

 453; John Locke at (1553) v. 77, 

 105; trade with Chios (1569) 114, 

 116; rights of, over Cyprus, 126; 

 Laurence Aldersey in (1581) 203, 

 214; description of, 205; Duke 

 of, 205; Sesame seed in, 230; 

 Henry Austell at, 322 ; the Edward 

 Bonaventure and the Susan at 

 (1586) VI. 48; Levant Company's 

 trade in (1592) 75, 77; Richard 

 Wrag at (1594) 113; navy of, xii. 



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Venison in Newfoundland, viii. 14. 



Venner, Captain, see Fenner. 



Vennor, Thomas, see Fenner. 



Venta Cruz, or House of Crosses, 

 in New Spain, Sir Francis Drake 

 and the sacking of (1572) x. 76; 

 open to Sir Francis Drake's devas- 

 tations, 94; near the river of 

 Chagres, 144 ; fortified, 150 ; a 

 danger to Panama (1587) 151 ; 

 set on fire by Sir Francis Drake 

 (1572) XI. 229. 



Venta de Cruzes, see Venta Cruz. 



Ventereuse, La, of Honfleur, Wil- 

 liam Towerson and (1577) vi. 241. 



Vento, French Consul in Alexandria 

 (1584) v. 288; Pasha of Alex- 

 andria and, 289. 



Ventry haven, English fleet at (1589) 

 vii. 26. 



Vera, Domingo de, general for 

 Antonio de Berreo (1593) x. 434. 



Vera, Juan de, taken prisoner by 

 the English at the Groyne (1589) 

 VI. 485; on Bayona, 514. 



Vera Cruz, Spanish fort built in 

 (1590) IX. 204, 205; Robert Tom- 

 son at (1556) 346; description of, 

 by Robert Thomson (1558) 354; 

 otherwise called Villa rica, 359 ; 

 Roger Bodenham in (1564) 359; 

 John Chilton at, 361 ; cattle used 

 in, as purifiers of the air, 361 ; 

 commercial port (1572) 378; dan- 

 gerous mosquitoes in, 379; Miles 

 Philips escaping from Mexico, 

 arrested at (1580) 435, 436; lati- 

 tude and marks of, described in 

 the Ruttier, x. 294; in second 

 Ruttier, 316, 317; latitude of, 317, 



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