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... discovered . We can readily imagine the exultation of this intrepid adventurer , and how amply he was repaid for all his sufferings , when he first spread a sail on that untraversed ocean , and felt that the range of an unknown world ...
... discovered . We can readily imagine the exultation of this intrepid adventurer , and how amply he was repaid for all his sufferings , when he first spread a sail on that untraversed ocean , and felt that the range of an unknown world ...
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... discovered , and he hoped to be the first to reach its shores and thus secure a renown equal to that of Columbus . While cogitating these things and considering which way he should strike forth in the unex- plored regions around him ...
... discovered , and he hoped to be the first to reach its shores and thus secure a renown equal to that of Columbus . While cogitating these things and considering which way he should strike forth in the unex- plored regions around him ...
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... discovery , nor had he any difficulty in finding adventurers in abun- dance ready to cruise with him in quest of this fairy - land . * * It was not the credulous minds of voyagers and adventurers alone that were heated by these Indian ...
... discovery , nor had he any difficulty in finding adventurers in abun- dance ready to cruise with him in quest of this fairy - land . * * It was not the credulous minds of voyagers and adventurers alone that were heated by these Indian ...
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... discovered it on Palm Sunday ( Pascua Florida ) , he gave it the name of Florida , which it retains to the present day . The In- dian name of the country was Cautio . * Juan Ponce landed and took possession of the country in the name of ...
... discovered it on Palm Sunday ( Pascua Florida ) , he gave it the name of Florida , which it retains to the present day . The In- dian name of the country was Cautio . * Juan Ponce landed and took possession of the country in the name of ...
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... discovered a group of islets abounding with sea - fowl and marine animals . On one of them his sailors , in the course of a single night , caught one hun- dred and seventy turtles , and might have taken many more had they been so ...
... discovered a group of islets abounding with sea - fowl and marine animals . On one of them his sailors , in the course of a single night , caught one hun- dred and seventy turtles , and might have taken many more had they been so ...
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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...