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... brought them as a peace- offering a basket curiously wrought and filled with pearls of great beauty . Among these were two of extraordinary size and value . One weighed twenty - five carats ; the other was of the size of a Muscadine ...
... brought them as a peace- offering a basket curiously wrought and filled with pearls of great beauty . Among these were two of extraordinary size and value . One weighed twenty - five carats ; the other was of the size of a Muscadine ...
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... brought them as a peace- offering a basket curiously wrought and filled with pearls of great beauty . Among these were two of extraordinary size and value . One weighed twenty - five carats ; the other was of the size of a Muscadine ...
... brought them as a peace- offering a basket curiously wrought and filled with pearls of great beauty . Among these were two of extraordinary size and value . One weighed twenty - five carats ; the other was of the size of a Muscadine ...
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... brought . To add to their difficulties they had scarcely begun to work upon the timber before they dis- covered that it was totally useless , being sub- ject to the ravages of the worms from having been cut in the vicinity of salt water ...
... brought . To add to their difficulties they had scarcely begun to work upon the timber before they dis- covered that it was totally useless , being sub- ject to the ravages of the worms from having been cut in the vicinity of salt water ...
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... brought the letter , maintained at first a cautious silence as to the events which had transpired at Darien . They were gradually won , however , by the frank and genial manners of Vasco Nuñez , and grieved to see so gallant a soldier ...
... brought the letter , maintained at first a cautious silence as to the events which had transpired at Darien . They were gradually won , however , by the frank and genial manners of Vasco Nuñez , and grieved to see so gallant a soldier ...
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... brought against him of a treason- able conspiracy to cast off all allegiance to the Crown , and to assume an independent sway on the borders of the Southern Sea , was principally supported by the confessions of Andres Garabito . The ...
... brought against him of a treason- able conspiracy to cast off all allegiance to the Crown , and to assume an independent sway on the borders of the Southern Sea , was principally supported by the confessions of Andres Garabito . The ...
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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...