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... Spanish war - cry of Santiago ! It was a slaughter rather than a bat- tle , for the Indians were unprepared for resist- ance . Before sunrise seven hundred lay dead upon the field . Returning from the massacre , the commanders doomed ...
... Spanish war - cry of Santiago ! It was a slaughter rather than a bat- tle , for the Indians were unprepared for resist- ance . Before sunrise seven hundred lay dead upon the field . Returning from the massacre , the commanders doomed ...
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... Spanish writers , the kingdom of Peru derived its name from this warlike cacique , through a blunder of the early discoverers ; the assertion , however , is believed to be erroneous . The Spaniards had pushed their bloody re- venge to ...
... Spanish writers , the kingdom of Peru derived its name from this warlike cacique , through a blunder of the early discoverers ; the assertion , however , is believed to be erroneous . The Spaniards had pushed their bloody re- venge to ...
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... * In consequence of the eloquent representations made to the Spanish government by the venerable Las Casas , of the cruel wrongs and oppressions prac- letter fell into the hands of Pedrarias , and con- The Companions of Columbus . 29.
... * In consequence of the eloquent representations made to the Spanish government by the venerable Las Casas , of the cruel wrongs and oppressions prac- letter fell into the hands of Pedrarias , and con- The Companions of Columbus . 29.
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... Spanish writers who have treated of the fortunes of Vasco Nuñez , record an anec- dote which is worthy of being cited , as char- acteristic of the people of the age . Among the motley crowd of adventurers lured across the ocean by the ...
... Spanish writers who have treated of the fortunes of Vasco Nuñez , record an anec- dote which is worthy of being cited , as char- acteristic of the people of the age . Among the motley crowd of adventurers lured across the ocean by the ...
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... Spanish discoverers ; a victim to the basest and most perfidious envy . How vain are our most confident hopes , our brightest triumphs ! When Vasco Nuñez from the mountains of Darien beheld the Southern Ocean revealed to his gaze , he ...
... Spanish discoverers ; a victim to the basest and most perfidious envy . How vain are our most confident hopes , our brightest triumphs ! When Vasco Nuñez from the mountains of Darien beheld the Southern Ocean revealed to his gaze , he ...
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Página 73 - ... same marvellous and inestimable qualities. Juan Ponce de Leon listened to these tales with fond credulity. He was advancing in life, and the ordinary term of existence seemed insufficient for his mighty plans. Could he but plunge into this marvellous fountain or gifted river, and come out with his battered, war-worn body restored to the strength and freshness and suppleness of youth, and his head still retaining the wisdom and knowledge of age, what enterprises might he not accomplish in the...
Página 74 - ... men young again. And here I must make protestation to your holiness not to think this to be said lightly or rashly, for they have so spread this rumor for a truth throughout all the court, that not only all the...
Página 352 - IN the name of the Most Holy Trinity, who inspired me with the idea, and afterwards made it perfectly clear to me, that I could navigate and go to the Indies from Spain, by traversing the ocean westwardly...