rapiers
rabble
rain
ramparts
rebels
Red Indians
Reef knots
reign of terror
riots
Rio de Janeiro
round trips
tall ships
typhoons
tempests
thunderstorms
turtles
tuna
trees
Ulan Bator
unarmed combat
unclad natives
uncertainty
uncolonized lands
Union Jack
Volcanoes
Vesuvius
Vinland (if it was a really early voyage)
Valparaiso Bay
voyagers
(Isn't Ulan Batar landlocked?!)
waves
weather patterns
Waiheke island
wars
warm climates
water & more water
weapons
whales
windstorms
wrecks
wretched people
(Thank you for pointing that out Clary, I was under the impression it was a star constellation)
xanthic plankton
xebec (but probably not on a lilo like this one)
yabbering natives
yardarms
Yellow sea
yuck food
Zanzibar
zebras coming to the beach to tan the stripes
And following the recent reference to Samarqand, how about Things you'd see on the Silk Route?
Antioch, Asia and Almaty for a start.
camels
China
caravans
crates of things
China tea
cadavers
Desert
dirty linen
dromedaries
dead animals
dreadfully thirsty people
Everest
emeralds
edelweiss
fabrics
faces
figs
forbidden fruit
fine art
fata morgana
fakirs
The Gobi
The Ganges
Gandhara
gunpowder
Greeks (Alexander's mob)
Heaven
Habitants
Hafts
Hand axes
Harnesses
Head bands
Heat
Herbs
Hides
Hordes
Horses
India
indigo dyes
Italian spaghetti salesman (Marco Polo)
Iranians (Persians)
incense
intricate carvings
international trade
jabbering tribes
jade
jagged pieces of glass
Jammu
jewellery
joss statues
jute
Kathmandu
Khyber Pass
Gengis Khan
kettles made of beaten brass
kowtowing peasants
labyrinth of roads
lanterns
lawlessness
leaf monkeys
letters of credence
liquor
long distances
