The Discoveries of America to the Year 1525, Volumen1G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884 - 380 páginas |
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... sent him by Montezuma . The populated provinces of Mexico . Great cities . Large temples . Decorated idols . Cortes enters the city of Mexico . Its palaces , markets , and arsenals . The horrible sacrifices of the Mexicans . The siege ...
... sent him by Montezuma . The populated provinces of Mexico . Great cities . Large temples . Decorated idols . Cortes enters the city of Mexico . Its palaces , markets , and arsenals . The horrible sacrifices of the Mexicans . The siege ...
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... sent by him as a gift to King Frederic III . of Denmark , and is now in the Royal Library of Copenhagen . A part of the inscription on the first page of the volume bears this translation : " This book , Jónn , the son of Hakon , owns ...
... sent by him as a gift to King Frederic III . of Denmark , and is now in the Royal Library of Copenhagen . A part of the inscription on the first page of the volume bears this translation : " This book , Jónn , the son of Hakon , owns ...
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... sent there , in 1828 , by the Danish government to obtain information respecting the site of the eastern settlement ( eystri bygd ) , will likely afford grounds for a more plausible conjecture that Vinland was a region in Greenland ...
... sent there , in 1828 , by the Danish government to obtain information respecting the site of the eastern settlement ( eystri bygd ) , will likely afford grounds for a more plausible conjecture that Vinland was a region in Greenland ...
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... sent by order of the king of Denmark , in search of the lost colonies , under the command of Captain W. A. Graah , of the Danish royal navy . Translated from the Danish by the late G. Gordon Macdougall , F.R.S.N.A. , for the Royal Geo ...
... sent by order of the king of Denmark , in search of the lost colonies , under the command of Captain W. A. Graah , of the Danish royal navy . Translated from the Danish by the late G. Gordon Macdougall , F.R.S.N.A. , for the Royal Geo ...
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... sent , while yet a youth , in the year 1662 , with royal letters from my gracious master , King Frederick the Third , for the purpose of learning the genuine signi- fication of the more difficult ancient words and phrases ; and , then ...
... sent , while yet a youth , in the year 1662 , with royal letters from my gracious master , King Frederick the Third , for the purpose of learning the genuine signi- fication of the more difficult ancient words and phrases ; and , then ...
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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.