Here are the answers:
1. countenance --> <span>brilliant as the sun in all its strength
</span>2. clothing --> long garment, golden girdle
3. white horse --> <span>victorious royalty</span>
4. red horse --> <span>bloodshed </span>
5. head and hair --> <span>white as snow or wool
</span>6. pale horse --> famine
7. eyes --> <span>as a flame of fire
</span>8. black horse --> death
9. feet --> shone like burnished brass
10. voice --> full and rich, sounding like many waters
The explorers tried to circumnavigate on their ships in straits.
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