 | 1923 - 560 strani
...Gaul." The passage that contains the first mention of the name "California" reads as follows: "Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very near to the terrestrial paradise, which was peopled by black women, without any man among them, for... | |
 | Mrs. A. S. C. Forbes - 1925 - 406 strani
...Adventures of Esplandian) the first time the paragraph reads as follows : "Know," the Sergas says, "that on the right hand of the Indies 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... | |
 | 1963 - 692 strani
...Spanish galleon rode at anchor in San Diego Bay. In 1510, a book published in Spain flatly announced that ". . . on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near the Terrestrial Paradise." These words and the legend of El Dorado, the gilded city of spices... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley - 1916 - 332 strani
...forces where the Sultan and Armato were chief. Chapter CLVII begins in this wise : Know ye that at the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to that part of the Terrestrial Paradise, which was inhabited by black women without a single man among... | |
 | Neal Harlow - 1989 - 526 strani
...at its tip was christened California.8 This fanciful name—derived from a popular thriller relating that on the "right hand of the Indies there is an island called California," rich in gold, diamonds, and pearls, and peopled by black women living as Amazons 9 —spread irresistibly... | |
 | Arthur Grove Day - 1991 - 284 strani
...1904- . PS57I.C2G7 1990 813'. 010832794 — dc20 90-37672 CIP AC In 1510 a Spanish romancer described an island called California, "very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise." It was inhabited by Amazons, and even the harnesses of the beasts they rode were gold. Thus began the... | |
 | Clyde A. Milner II - 1996 - 333 strani
...Garci Ordonez de Montalvo expressed his ideas about the gender possibilities of the New World. "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... | |
 | Fernando de los Ríos - 1997 - 650 strani
...it and twenty-five years before he visited the lower peninsula. In stanza 157 the poem says, «Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very near the terrestrial paradise». I suppose that the discoverers, astonished by the beauty and fertility... | |
 | Heather Waite - 1999 - 292 strani
...to write home about. Our mythology began long ago. In 1510, Card Ordonez de Montalvo wrote, "Know ye that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California." Illusion already under way. Our state's mystique is the prism though which the entire world watches,... | |
 | 1864 - 804 strani
...that where the danger came, there the safety came also. Know, then, that, on the right hand of tho Indies, there is an island called California, very...close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise,* and it wa.« peopled by black women, without any nun among them, for they lived in the fashion of Amazons.... | |
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Know, then, that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California... 
