Narrative and Critical History of America: Spanish explorations and settlements in America from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. [c1886

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Justin Winsor
Houghton, Mifflin, 1886
 

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Stran 566 - Oftentimes, when the other soldiers were reposing, I was tiring myself by writing. Neither fatigue nor the ruggedness of the country, nor the mountains and rivers, nor intolerable hunger and suffering, have ever been sufficient to obstruct my two duties, namely, writing and following my fla^ and my captain without fault.
Stran 131 - I have come to another conclusion respecting the Earth, namely, that it is not round as they describe, but of the form of a pear, which is very round except where the stalk grows, at which part it. is most prominent...
Stran 442 - Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California...
Stran 133 - God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth, of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah, and he showed me the spot where to find it.
Stran 427 - Ixtlilxochitl. (See his Idea de una Nueva Historia General de la America Septentrional [Madrid, 1746], p.
Stran 134 - East where spices growe, by a way that was never knowen before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing.
Stran 289 - ... handsome masonry, concealed the wood work, while port-holes were abundant, together with towers, capable of containing eight men each, at the distance of fifty paces apart. An eastern and a western gate opened into the town. The writer is satisfied that Maubila...
Stran 164 - Waltxemiiller, pp. 54, 55) describes a copy which belonged to Ye'me'niz, of Lyons. Brockhaus advertised one in 1861 (Tromel, no. i). Another was sold in Paris for 2,000 francs in 1867. There was another in the Sobolewski sale (no. 3,769), and one in the Court Catalogue (no. 92). Leclerc, 1878 (no. 599), has advertised one for 500 francs, Harrassowitz, 1881, (no.
Stran 535 - The emperor appointed a committee composed of churchmen and lawyers of the highest position in 1542, to consider the whole subject. The result was the promulgation of what were called the "New Laws." I. After the death of the conquerors, the repartimientos of Indians, given to them in encomienda, were not to pass to their heirs, but were to be placed under the king.
Stran 580 - Compendia histdrico del descubrimiento y colonization de la Nueva Granada en el siglo decimo sexto...

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