"Roble" Quotes from Famous Books
... 1st August 1556 I went ashore,[56] and there saw three morses that they (Russian hunters) had killed: they held one tooth of a morse, which was not great, at a roble, and one white beare skin at three robles and two robles: they further told me, that there were people called Samoeds on the great Island, and that they would not abide them nor us, who have no houses, but only coverings made of Deerskins, set ouer them with stakes: ... — The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold |