 | 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... | |
 | 1996 - 337 strani
...novelist Garcf 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,... | |
 | Michael Kowalewski - 1996 - 322 strani
...exotic island ruled by a queen named Calafia. Montalvo 's description seems eerily prophetic: Know then, 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... | |
 | Fernando de los Ríos - 1997 - 650 strani
...spoke of 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... | |
 | Zeese Papanikolas - 1998 - 208 strani
...and magic enchantments and, hard by the Terrestrial Paradise, a golden island peopled with Amazons. 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1921 - 382 strani
...his two brother monks — the first unarmed mission of the Church upon the soil of the United States. "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... | |
 | 1864 - 810 strani
...been lost on the next day, but that where the danger came, there the safety came also. Know, then, that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very0 close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise,s and it was peopled by black women, without any... | |
 | 1922 - 680 strani
...1510, " Las Sergas de Esplandian." By California was implied insularity coupled with riches. "Know tlmt 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... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 1166 strani
...the Indies" [that is, to the north of Mexico, as Diaz would ON THE COAST. understand the expression] "there is an island called California, very near to the terrestrial paradise." Lower California was long taken to be an island, and it was an idea of Columbus, as well as of Las... | |
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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. 
