bignes

A participant in that expedition, one William Revett, recorded “lande turtles of so huge a bignes which men will think incredible; of which our company had small luste to eat of, being such huge defourmed creatures and footed with five claws lyke a beare.”

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

A participant in that expedition, one William Revett, recorded “lande turtles of so huge a bignes which men will think incredible; of which our company had small luste to eat of, being such huge defourmed creatures and footed with five claws lyke a beare.”

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

I told 22. oxen in one teame, drawing an house vpon a cart, eleuen in one order according to the breadth of the carte, and eleuen more before them: the axeltree of the carte was of an huge bignes like vnto the mast of a ship.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

Also a certaine Nestorian priest, which had bin in Catay, saide that in that countrey there is an idole of so huge a bignes, that it may be seen two daies iourney before a man come at it.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

Also I saw another kind of beast called Artak, hauing in al resemblance the body of a ram and crooked hornes, which are of such bignes, that I could scarce lift vp a paire of them with one hand; and of these hornes they make great drinking cups.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

Their barrels or vessels are of an vnmeasurable bignes and sise: some of them are 3. yards long and more, and 2. yards and more broad in their heads: they conteine 6. or 7. tunnes a piece: they haue none in their sellers of their owne making that are lesse then

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Also I saw another kind of beast called Artak, hauing in al resemblance the body of a ram and crooked hornes, which are of such bignes, that I could scarce lift vp a paire of them with one hand; and of these hornes they make great drinking cups.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

They haue drummes besides of a huge bignes, which they cary with them vpon a boord layde on foure horses, that are sparred together with chaines, euery drumme haning eight strikers, or drummers, besides trumpets and shawmes, which they sound after a wilde maner, much different from ours.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

The priuate signet of the Sophie was a round printed marke about the bignes of a roial, onely printed vpon the same paper without any waxe or other seale, the letters seem so mishapen and disordered, that a man would thinke it were somewhat scribled in maner at aduentures.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Also a certaine Nestorian priest, which had bin in Catay, saide that in that countrey there is an idole of so huge a bignes, that it may be seen two daies iourney before a man come at it.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003