 | Fernando de los Ríos - 1997 - 650 strani
...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... | |
 | 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 near to the Terrestrial Paradise... 
