Narrative and Critical History of America: Spanish explorations in America from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. [c1886Justin Winsor Houghton, Mifflin, 1886 |
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... Pedro Gonzales de Mendoza , Archbishop of Toledo . The way was now surer . The King heeded the Archbishop's advice , and a council of learned men . was convened , by royal orders , at Salamanca , to judge Columbus and his theories ...
... Pedro Gonzales de Mendoza , Archbishop of Toledo . The way was now surer . The King heeded the Archbishop's advice , and a council of learned men . was convened , by royal orders , at Salamanca , to judge Columbus and his theories ...
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... Pedro Ramirez , issued at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1847 , was ren- dered from the Paris , 1630 , edition . Cf. Nuñez de la Peña's Conquista y anti- guedades de las Islas de la Gran Canaria , Madrid , 1676 , and reprint , Santa Cruz de ...
... Pedro Ramirez , issued at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1847 , was ren- dered from the Paris , 1630 , edition . Cf. Nuñez de la Peña's Conquista y anti- guedades de las Islas de la Gran Canaria , Madrid , 1676 , and reprint , Santa Cruz de ...
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... Pedro , — which , like the 1351 map , showed the Azores , that induced Prince Henry in 1431 to despatch the expedition which rediscov ered those islands ; and they appear on the Catalan map , which Santarem ( pl . 54 ) describes as ...
... Pedro , — which , like the 1351 map , showed the Azores , that induced Prince Henry in 1431 to despatch the expedition which rediscov ered those islands ; and they appear on the Catalan map , which Santarem ( pl . 54 ) describes as ...
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... Pedro , who died in 1449. There is an- other engraving of it in Jules Verne's La Découverte de la Terre , p . 112. Major calls the portrait in Gustave de Veer's Life of Prince Henry , published at Dantzig , in 1864 , a fancy The annexed ...
... Pedro , who died in 1449. There is an- other engraving of it in Jules Verne's La Découverte de la Terre , p . 112. Major calls the portrait in Gustave de Veer's Life of Prince Henry , published at Dantzig , in 1864 , a fancy The annexed ...
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... Pedro Colon , refers to Ferdi- nand Colon as " Fernando Henriquez . " ( Stevens , Bibl . Geog . , no . 1,147 ) . The inference from Columbus ' final testamentary language is certainly against the lady's chastity . In his codicil he ...
... Pedro Colon , refers to Ferdi- nand Colon as " Fernando Henriquez . " ( Stevens , Bibl . Geog . , no . 1,147 ) . The inference from Columbus ' final testamentary language is certainly against the lady's chastity . In his codicil he ...
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Stran 430 - Idea de una nueva historia general de la America septentrional (Madrid, 1746), which was the result of eight years' investigations into the history of Mexico.
Stran 134 - 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 444 - Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise ; and it was peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they lived in the fashion of Amazons. They were of strong and hardy bodies, of* ardent courage and great force. Their island was the strongest in all the world, with its steep cliffs and rocky shores. Their arms were all of gold...
Stran 136 - 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 425 - Robertson judged that Herrera furnished the fullest and most accurate information, and that if his work had not in its chronological order been so perplexed, disconnected, and obscure, Herrera might justly have been ranked among the most eminent historians of his country. William Smyth, in the twenty-first section of his Lectures on Modern History, in an account which is there given of the main sources of information respecting the Conquest, as they were accessible forty or fifty years ago, awards...
Stran 604 - But yet they are nothing so monstrous or giant-like as they are reported, there being some Englishmen as tall as the highest of any we could see. But peradventure the Spaniards did not think that ever any Englishman would come thither to reprove them, and thereupon might presume the more boldly to lie, — the name Pentagones, five cubits, viz. seven foot and half, describing the full height (if not somewhat more) of the highest of them.
Stran 289 - Historic of the Travailles. Discovery, and Conquest of Terra Florida, and was included in the supplement to the 1809 edition of the Collection of Hakluyt. It was also reprinted from the 1611 edition in 1851 by the Hakluyt Society...
Stran 292 - Maubila was upon the north bank of the Alabama, and at a place now called Choctaw Bluff, in the county of Clarke, about twenty-five miles above the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigby.
Stran 137 - 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 604 - Magellan was not altogether deceived in naming them giants, for they generally differ from the common sort of men, both in stature, bigness, and strength of body, as also in the hideousness of their voice; but yet they are nothing so monstrous or giantlike as they were reported...