 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1884 - 768 strani
...attention to a popular romance, some twentyfive years old, in which the following passage occurred: "Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very near to the terrestrial paradise, which was peopled with black women, without any men among them, because... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1885 - 310 strani
...name appears with precisely our spelling, in the following passage : — Scry as, ch. 157. — " Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women, without any men among them, because... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1886 - 662 strani
...as an island rich with gold and diamonds and pearls. The language of the writer is this : — " Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island...was peopled by black women, without any man among thenij for they lived in the fashion of Amazons. They were of strong and hardy bodies, of ardent courage... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1890 - 778 strani
...attention to a popular romance, some twentyfive years old, in which the following passage occurred : "Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, verv near to the terres•/ trial paradise, which was peopled with black women, without any men among... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - 1897 - 682 strani
...discovery of that part of thl! mainland which has yielded to the world its untold millions of gold. " Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island...California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise,1 and it was peopled by black women without any man among them, 1 In the cosmogony of that... | |
 | 1896 - 756 strani
...in pearls, diamonds and (L,old. Says the old chronicler: "Know that on the right hand of the lndies, there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestial Paradise; and it was peopled by black women without any man among them, for they lived in... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - 1898 - 688 strani
...discovery of that part of the mainland which has yielded to the world its untold millions of gold. " Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island...California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise,1 and it was peopled by black women without any man among them, 1 In the cosmogony of that... | |
 | David Augustus Shaw - 1900 - 338 strani
...The following extracts from this comparatively ancient book will show how the name occurred. "Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very near the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled by black women, without any men among them, because... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1905 - 516 strani
...probably derived the name from Calif, the title of a successor of Mohammed. The author says: "Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island, called California, very close to the Terrestrial Paradise, and it was peopled by black women without any man among them, for they lived... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1906 - 516 strani
...probably derived the name from Calif, the title of a successor of Mohammed. The author says: "Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island, called California, very close to the Terrestrial Paradise, and it was peopled by black women without any man among them, for they lived... | |
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Know, then, that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California... 
