 | 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... | |
 | Owen Cochran Coy - 1919 - 410 strani
...persisted until it became a tremendous reality in January, 1848, just on the eve of American annexation. "Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Ter-restrial Paradise; and it was peopled by black women, without any man... | |
 | 1864 - 804 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, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise,* and it was peopled by black women, without any man... | |
 | 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...called California, very near the Terrestrial Paradise." These words and the legend of El Dorado, the gilded city of spices and treasure, beckoningly drew the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...California, very near the terrestrial paradise». I suppose that the discoverers, astonished by the beauty and fertility of the country, applied to it... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
