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Términos y frases comunes
abounded Adelantado admiral Aguado Almirante Alonzo Anacaona anchored appeared arms arrived Bartholomew Columbus beautiful Behechio beheld boat Bonao brother brought cacique called canoe Caonabo Cape caravel Carib Casas CHAPTER Charlevoix chieftain Cibao cique coast colony Colum command considered continued court crew crown Cuba decad despatched Diego discovered discovery distance Don Bartholomew enterprise expedition favor Fonseca forests fortress Friar gave the name gold Guacanagari Guarionex Gulf Gulf of Paria harbor Herrera Hispaniola Hist Indians inhabitants Isabella island Juan kind king land leagues letter los Palacios lumbus Marco Polo Margarite mountains natives Navarrete navigation observed ocean Ojeda ordered Oviedo Paria Pedro persons Peter Martyr Pinta Pinzon Portugal present Prince provisions received region remained river Roldan royal sail San Domingo savage sent ships shore sovereigns Spain Spaniards Spanish spirit supposed tion various Vega vessels village VOYAGES OF COLUMBUS wind World Xaragua
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Página 326 - Rome : a modest smile lighted up his features, showing that he enjoyed the state and glory in which he came ;* and certainly nothing could be more deeply moving to a mind inflamed by noble ambition, and conscious of having greatly deserved, than these testimonials of the admiration and gratitude of a nation, or rather of a world.
Página 191 - ... the residence of man. But what were its inhabitants ? Were they like those of the other parts of the globe ; or were they some strange and monstrous race, such as the imagination in those times was prone to give to all remote and unknown regions ? Had he come upon some wild island far in the Indian Sea ; or was this the famed Cipango itself, the object of his golden fancies ? A thousand speculations of the kind must have swarmed upon him, as, with his anxious crews, he waited for the night to...
Página 258 - So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people," says Columbus in his journal, "that I swear to your Majesties, there is not in the world a better nation, nor a better land. They love their neighbours as themselves; and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile; and though it is true that they are naked, yet their manners are decorous and praiseworthy.
Página 328 - Deum laudamus, chanted by the choir of the royal chapel, with the accompaniment of instruments, rose in full body of sacred harmony ; bearing up, as it were, the feelings and thoughts of the auditors to Heaven, " so that," says the venerable Las Casas, " it seemed as if in that hour they communicated with celestial delight.
Página 190 - Rodrigo Sanchez of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves...
Página 196 - ... left long behind and falling upon their shoulders. Their features, though obscured and disfigured by paint, were agreeable ; they had lofty foreheads and remarkably fine eyes. They were of moderate stature and well shaped...
Página 189 - The breeze had been fresh all day, with more sea than usual, and they had made great progress. At sunset they had stood again to the west, and were ploughing the waves at a rapid rate, the Pinta keeping the lead, from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships ; not an eye was closed that night. As the evening darkened, Columbus took his station on the top of the castle or cabin...
Página 188 - Beside a quantity of fresh weeds, such as grow in rivers, they saw a green fish of a kind which keeps about rocks ; then a branch of thorn with berries on it, and recently separated from the tree, floated by them ; then they picked up a reed, a small board, and, above all, a staff artificially carved. All gloom and mutiny now gave way to sanguine expectation ; and throughout the day each one was eagerly on the watch, in hopes of being the first to discover the longsought-for land. In the evening,...
Página 335 - 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.