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Tales about America and Australia. (Ed. by T.Wilson) Peter Parley (Pseud ) Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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admiral Almagro America Anacaona appeared arrived Atahualpa Australia Balboa beautiful Bobadilla brought called canoe Captain CASSELL CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED caziques chief Cloth coast colony Columbus command conduct continent Cortez crew cruel cruelty Darien disco discovered discovery Enciso endeavoured European expedition favour feet Ferdinand and Isabella fish fleet Francisco Pizarro GALPIN gave gilt gold harbour Hayti Hispaniola Holland honour hundred Inca Indians inhabitants island kangaroo kind king land look Mexicans monarch Montezuma mountains narch natives navigators ocean Ojeda ornaments Ovando Pacific Ocean PARLEY TELLS persons Peru PETTER Pinta Pinzon Pizarro Port Jackson prisoner quadrupeds queen river Roldan sailors savages sent set sail settlement ship shore soldiers soon sovereign Spain Spaniards Spanish storms Sydney Sydney Cove tion took town tree tribe troops Tropic of Capricorn Van Diemen's Land vessels Villejo Volumes voyage Weekly Numbers
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Página 33 - A shallow courtier present, impatient of the honours paid to Columbus, and meanly jealous of him as a foreigner, abruptly asked him whether he thought that, in case he had not discovered the Indies, there were not other men in Spain, who would have been capable of the enterprise? To this Columbus made no immediate reply, but, taking an egg, invited the company to make it stand on one end. Every one attempted it...
Página 54 - their majesties commanded me by letter to submit to whatever Bobadilla should order in their name ; by their authority he has put upon me these chains, I will wear them until they shall order them to be taken off, and I will preserve them afterwards as relics and memorials of the reward of my services...
Página 34 - Columbus made no immediate reply, but, taking an egg, invited the company to make it stand on one end. Every one attempted it, but in vain ; whereupon he struck it upon the table so as to break the end, and left it standing on the broken part ; illustrating in this simple manner, that when he had once shown the way to the New World, nothing was easier than to follow it...
Página 169 - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
Página 154 - A great many years ago, when men with a white skin had never yet been seen in this land, some Indians who were out a fishing at a place where the sea widens, espied at a great distance something remarkably large floating on the water, and such as they had never seen before.
Página 112 - Tlascalan allies, were under arms ready to sally out on the first alarm. Cortes and his attendants were admitted without suspicion ; the Mexicans retiring, as usual, out of respect. He addressed the monarch in a tone very different from that which he had employed...
Página 106 - There appeared first two-hundred persons in a uniform dress, with large plumes of feathers, alike in fashion, marching two and two, in deep silence, barefooted, with their eyes fixed on the ground. These were followed by a company of higher rank, in their most showy apparel, in the midst of whom was Montezuma, in a chair or litter richly ornamented with gold, and feathers of various colours. Four of his principal favourites carried him on their shoulders; others supported a canopy of curious workmanship...
Página 103 - ... texture, as to resemble silk ; pictures of animals., trees, and other natural objects, formed with feathers of different colours, disposed and mingled with such skill and elegance, as to rival the works of the pencil in truth and beauty of imitation. But what chiefly attracted their eyes, were two large plates of a circular form, one of massive gold representing the sun, the other of silver, an emblem of the moon™.
Página 5 - Marchena, happening to pass by, was struck with the appearance of the stranger, and observing from his air and accent that he was a foreigner, entered into conversation with him...
Página 118 - ... his subjects. In a transport of rage he tore the bandages from his wounds, and refused, with such obstinacy, to take any nourishment, that he soon ended his wretched days, rejecting with disdain all the solicitations of the Spaniards to embrace the Christian faith...