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Persia in a certaine shippe made of bourdes, and sowed together with cayro, which is threede made of the huske of Cocoes, and certaine canes or strawe leaues sowed vpon the seames of the bordes which is the cause that they leake very much.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But by the aide of God, at the last she came off againe, being very leake: and the 21 day the Primerose remaining at an anker in the wands, the other three shippes bare into Orwel hauen where I caused the sayd Trinitie to be grounded, searched, and repaired.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The 6 day they wayed ancre, and bare further off into the sea, where they ancred in seuen fathom water, the ship being very leake, and so rotten abaft the maine mast, that a man with his nailes might scrape thorow her side.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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William was hald a ground, because she was somewhat leake, and to mend her steerage.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The 26. of Aprill in the morning we coulde not see our shippes, which pleased not our men, besides that our shippe was very weake, whereby her ribs shoke, and her ioynts with the force of the water opened and shut, so that as then our shippe was very leake, hauing the winde Northwest, holding our course as neere as wee could West
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Whereas the tenth day I sent our Pinnesse on shoare to be mended, because she was leake, and weake, with the Carpenter and three men more to helpe him, the weather chanced so, that it was
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Spinola was Captaine, being also in a leake, and the same still increasing notwithstanding the continuall pumping, in such sort as not to be kept along aboue water, I tooke and discharged out of her two and forty chestes of Cochonillio and silkes, and so left her with 11 foote water in holde and her furniture and 4700 hides, vnto the seas.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The same day at night wee haled aground to stoppe a leake, which we found to be in the skarfe afore.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Aurenge: [9] His errand hither was to find and stoppe a leake; haveinge bin foure or five monethes upon the coast, and gotten noethinge.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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