Glossary |
| apprenticed | To work for a master craftsman and so learn a trade |
| barke or barque | A small sailing ship |
| boat | A small craft that might be carried aboard a ship and used for landing ashore etc |
| conjecture | Guess |
| contemporaries | Belonging to the same period of time |
| cosmography | Study of the universe |
| critics | People who pass comment |
| duckats or ducats | A gold coin |
| exotic | Unusual or strange |
| freighter | Cargo ship |
| funded | Paid for |
| league | Unit of meaurement equal to 3 marine miles |
| maine | The mainland (rather than an island) |
| master | A captain of a ship |
| merchants | People involved in the buying and selling of goods |
| mizzen | The mast or sail nearest the stern (rear) of a ship |
| ordnance (ordenance) | Canon or other pieces of artillery |
| pezo | Spanish money |
| plundering | Taking goods by force |
| pound (lb) | A unit of weight equal to 16oz or 454g |
| prize | Something seized by force or taken as booty |
| ransacked | To search everywhere, to plunder |
| rifled | Similar to ransack and plunder |
| Ryal | A gold coin. In Elizabeth I’s reign, it was worth 15 shillings |
| Sierra Leone | Country on the western coast of Africa |
| sponsored | Paid for |
| Victualled | To provide with food and drink |
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