Capitolo 21
proceeding on trips to France toward south, to the Mediterranean to
Indies, and to America, it is familiarly very known to navigators
all over the world. The island of Thanet of what this north
Foreland is the extreme point, must have called as soon as an island,
from when it forms, in fact, a portion of the principal earth, being separate
from him only from a narrow stream or brook that in the first centuries indeed,
it was wide and navigable, but it is almost now smothered on and it obliterated
sands give and the sediment that, after being brought down by the
Thames, is driven in the stream from the surges of the sea.
In the duration of Hengist and Horsa the stream was so considerable that
its mouth furnished an I bring enough for their vases. They disembarked
to a city Decline-fleet what time it is, to of the distance called however
hinterland.
There is some uncertainty in in comparison to the motive that conducted Hengist
and Horsa to make their first descent on the coast English. If
they came one of their piratical and usual consignments, or it was
driven accidentally on the stress coast of time, or you/he/she was invited
to come from the British king, cannot be now verified accurately.
Such parties of Anglo-Saxons were often disembarked undoubtedly first under
rather similar circumstances, and then, after the brief raids in
the inside, had re-embarked on axle their ships and you/he/she had sailed away.
In this case, however it was a certain detail and extraordinary
state of things in the political condition of the country in that
they was disembarked that it resulted in to extend their stay before and
finally in to establish so fixedly them and permanently in the earth,
what their followers and they and descending they became soon the whole ones
masters of him, and you/he/she has remained in possession a present day.
These circumstances were as it follows:
The name of the king of Britain to this period was Vortigern. To the
time when the Anglo-Saxons arrived, his/her government and he were almost
submerged with the pressure of the difficulty and danger that rise from