barke

Some say that the barke is smooth and even, like unto that of the Arbute Tree: others againe affirme that it is prickly, and full of thornes.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

a new proffer unto me; which was a ship of 170 tunne, called The barke

Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 Various 1885

At the end of six days, another "barke" came by, from Lima, "in whiche he tooke an hundred thousand pezos of silver in barres."

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

They haue also an ornament for their heads which they call Botta, being made of the barke of a tree, or of some such other lighter matter as they can find, which by reason of the thicknes and roundnes therof cannot be holden but in both hands together: and it hath a square sharp spire rising from the top therof, being more then a cubite in length, and fashioned like vnto a pinacle.

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

We passed downe the streame therefore in a barke, from the foresaid cottage vnto his court.

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

We arriued about 4. of the clocke in the after noone within the riuer of Owiga, at a place named Soroka, at which place we forsooke our barke or Lodia, and continued there in making prouision for small boates to carie vs vp the riuer vntill the 3. day of the same.

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

Thus being at an anker against this riuer Iaic, and all our men being on land, sauing I, who lay sore sicke, and fiue Tartars whereof one was reputed a holy man, because he came from Mecka, there came vnto vs a boate with thirtie men well armed and appointed, who boorded vs, and began to enter into our barke, and our holy Tartar called

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For all the broad side of our barke lay in the water, and we had much adoe to recouer it, but God of his mercy deliuered vs. Mariners here may doe you good seruice all the winter otherwayes: and merchants here will be gladder to ship their goods in vs giuing good fraight.

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

Tuesday (4) we turned for the harborough where Loshaks barke lay, whereas before we road vnder an Island.

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

Foure Mariners were few enough to saile your barke, whereof at this present we haue but one, whose name is

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