The Conquest of Florida, by Hernando de SotoG.P. Putnam, 1851 - 457 strani |
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The Conquest of Florida, Under Hernando de Soto Theodore Irving,Schulze and Company Predogled ni na voljo - 2019 |
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Stran 24 - It was poetry put in action ; it was the knight-errantry of the Old World carried into the depths of the American wilderness ; indeed, the personal adventures, the feats of individual prowess, the...
Stran 363 - As there was no stone in the neighborhood wherewith to sink it, they cut down an evergreen oak, and made an excavation in one side, of the size of a man. On the following night, with all the silence possible, they disinterred the body, and placed it in the trunk of the oak, nailing planks over the aperture. The rustic coffin was then conveyed to the...
Stran 95 - Others of your accursed race," said he, " have, in years past, disturbed our peaceful shores. They have taught me what you are. What is your employment ? To wander about like vagabonds from land to land ; to rob the poor ; to betray the confiding ; to murder the defenceless in cold blood. No ! with such a people I want neither peace nor friendship.
Stran 123 - Vitachuco would be dining with the Governor, and the Indians in general attending upon their respective masters, the cacique was to watch his opportunity, spring upon De Soto, and kill him ; giving, at the moment of assault, a war-whoop that should resound throughout the village.
Stran 197 - Governor to lead the way himself, and see every thing with his own eyes, rather than trust to the accounts of others. He accordingly chose forty horse and seventy foot, well armed, with shields, arquebusses and cross-bows, and penetrated the country in advance of his army. On the morning of the third day they came in sight of the village of Achese. The Indians had fled to the forests, carrying with them their wives, children, and effects. The horsemen dashing into the village, made six prisoners,...
Stran 359 - Thus died Hernando De Soto; one of the boldest and the bravest of the many brave leaders who figured in the first discoveries, and distinguished themselves in the wild warfare of the Western World. How proud and promising had been the commencement of his career ! how humble and hapless its close ! Cut off in the very vigor and manhood of his days, for he was *
Stran 362 - For these reasons they buried him in the dead of night, with sentinels posted to keep the natives at a distance, that the sad ceremony might be safe from the observation of their spies. The place chosen for his sepulture was one of many pits, broad and deep, in a plain, near the village, from whence the Indians had taken earth for their buildings.
Stran 247 - But as thousands of the shells lie banked up, some deep in the ground, we may also suppose that the Indians, in De Soto's time, everywhere in Alabama, obtained pearls from them. There can be no doubt about the quantity of pearls found in this State and Georgia, in 1640, but they were of a coarser and less valuable kind than the Spaniards supposed.
Stran 226 - Spaniards could not sufficiently admire their beauty, and they passed them from hand to hand, examining and praising their workmanship and extolling the skill of their owner. The youthful Indian continued thoughtfully emptying his quiver, until, almost at the last, he drew forth an arrow with a point of flint, long and sharp, and shaped like a dagger ; then, casting around a glance, and seeing the Spaniards engaged in admiring his darts, he suddenly plunged the weapon in his throat and fell dead...
Stran 125 - Spaniards were so exasperated at the wounds they had received, and at hearing of their governour's maltreatment, that they wreaked their fury upon every Indian in their power. Others, who were cavaliers, thought it beneath their dignity to take away the lives of slaves. They brought their prisoners, therefore, to the grand square of the village, and delivered them into the hands of the archers of the general's guard, who despatched them with their halberds.