The Discoveries of America to the Year 1525, Volumen1G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884 - 380 páginas |
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... port of Palos . The fears of the sailors . Variations of the needle . The Sea of Sargasso . Incidents of the voyage . Discovery of land . Island of San Salvador . Columbus's description of the people and the islands . He believes that ...
... port of Palos . The fears of the sailors . Variations of the needle . The Sea of Sargasso . Incidents of the voyage . Discovery of land . Island of San Salvador . Columbus's description of the people and the islands . He believes that ...
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... ports of that country and of Syria . The mer- chants of Venice thereupon established commercial agencies at Alexandria and Damascus . Their factors penetrated Central and Southern Asia , and became active participants in the ...
... ports of that country and of Syria . The mer- chants of Venice thereupon established commercial agencies at Alexandria and Damascus . Their factors penetrated Central and Southern Asia , and became active participants in the ...
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... ports to which they were sailing are not to be credited , for they had not and could not have used the needle and the chart . But do you go notwithstanding , and make your voyage without being influenced by their opinions , and , by the ...
... ports to which they were sailing are not to be credited , for they had not and could not have used the needle and the chart . But do you go notwithstanding , and make your voyage without being influenced by their opinions , and , by the ...
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... port , from the altitude of the sun or other heavenly bodies , the want of an accurate chronometer made it impossi- ble for him to know the exact time of a place elsewhere . Pigafetta , who sailed round the world in 1519-1522 , says in ...
... port , from the altitude of the sun or other heavenly bodies , the want of an accurate chronometer made it impossi- ble for him to know the exact time of a place elsewhere . Pigafetta , who sailed round the world in 1519-1522 , says in ...
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... ports in their proper situation . During my life I have examined and endeavored to see all books of cosmography , history , and philosophy , and of the other sciences , so that our Lord has sensibly opened my mind in order that I may ...
... ports in their proper situation . During my life I have examined and endeavored to see all books of cosmography , history , and philosophy , and of the other sciences , so that our Lord has sensibly opened my mind in order that I may ...
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admiral afterward Amerigo Vespucci anchor Antonio boats Cabo Caboto cacique called Canary canoes Cape Bojador caravel Cathay coast Colombo command continent Cortes Cuba degrees Diaz Diego Velasquez discovered DISCOVERIES OF AMERICA distance east England Española explored farther Ferdinand Columbus fleet Frisland gave Giovanni Giovanni Caboto Giovanni da Verrazzano gold Grand Khan Greenland Hakluyt harbor Helluland Historie del S. D. hundred leagues Iceland Indians Indies inhabitants island Juan Karlsefne king land letter Lisbon longitude majesty miles monarch Montezuma natives navigator north latitude Northmen ocean Polo port Portugal Portuguese region respecting river S. D. Fernando Colombo says Sebastiano Caboto sent set sail ship shore Skraelings Spain Spaniards Spanish spices steered stones strait temple Terra things tion took trees Verrazzano Vespucci vessels Vide Vinland voyage western westward wind women
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Página 6 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Página 33 - words of art" as he calls them, which Philemon Holland, a voluminous translator at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century...
Página 58 - Mountain and its Tomb of Adam; of India The Great, not as a dreamland of Alexandrian fables, but as a country seen and partially explored, with its virtuous...
Página 233 - Diaz del Castillo. Written by himself. Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. Translated from the original Spanish by John Ingram Lockhart.
Página 321 - ... great pains ; their eyes are black and sharp, their expression mild and pleasant, greatly resembling the antique. I say nothing to your Majesty of the other parts of the body, which ^are all in good proportion and such as belong to wellformed...
Página 307 - Ethiopians; their hair is black and thick, and not very long, it is worn tied back upon the head in the form of a little tail. In person they are of good proportions, of middle stature, a little above our own, broad across the breast, strong in the arms, and well formed in the legs and other parts of the body; the only exception to their good looks is that they have broad faces, but not all, however, as we saw many that had sharp ones, with large black eyes and a fixed expression.
Página 310 - When these people saw him in this situation, they ran and took him up by the head, legs and arms, and carried him to a distance from the surf; the young man, finding himself borne off in this way, uttered very loud shrieks in fear and dismay, while they answered as they could in their language, showing him that he had no cause for fear.
Página 72 - Wherefore we may judge that those persons who connect the region in the neighborhood of the pillars of Hercules with that towards India, and who assert that in this way the sea is ONE, do not assert things very improbable.
Página 209 - ... year was discovered in the North, but which the Caravel could not reach on account of the ice and the vast quantity of snow ; and they are confirmed in this belief by the multitude of great rivers they found which certainly could not proceed from an island.
Página 89 - ... the heavens on all sides. Now I am really at a loss what to say of those who, when they have once gone wrong, steadily persevere in their folly, and defend one absurd opinion by another.