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... rivers in nets ; and where the Bachelor Enciso once undertook to invade the sepulchres . A captain , named Francisco Be- cerra , penetrated into this country at the head of one hundred and eighty men , well armed and equipped and ...
... rivers in nets ; and where the Bachelor Enciso once undertook to invade the sepulchres . A captain , named Francisco Be- cerra , penetrated into this country at the head of one hundred and eighty men , well armed and equipped and ...
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... river , which they called the Balsas , and which flowed into the Pacific . Much time and trouble and many lives were expended on this arduous undertaking before they had transported to the river sufficient tim- ber for two brigantines ...
... river , which they called the Balsas , and which flowed into the Pacific . Much time and trouble and many lives were expended on this arduous undertaking before they had transported to the river sufficient tim- ber for two brigantines ...
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... river swelled and overflowed its banks so suddenly , that the workmen barely escaped with their lives , by clambering into trees ; while the wood on which they had been working was either buried in sand or slime , or swept away by the ...
... river swelled and overflowed its banks so suddenly , that the workmen barely escaped with their lives , by clambering into trees ; while the wood on which they had been working was either buried in sand or slime , or swept away by the ...
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... river Balsas . As soon as they could be equipped for sea he embarked in them with as many Spaniards as they could carry ; and issuing from the river launched trium- phantly on the great ocean he had discovered . We can readily imagine ...
... river Balsas . As soon as they could be equipped for sea he embarked in them with as many Spaniards as they could carry ; and issuing from the river launched trium- phantly on the great ocean he had discovered . We can readily imagine ...
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... rivers , the Manatuabon and the Zebuco , where the very pebbles seemed richly veined with gold , and large grains shone among the sands through the limpid water . Some of the largest of these were gathered by the Indians and given to ...
... rivers , the Manatuabon and the Zebuco , where the very pebbles seemed richly veined with gold , and large grains shone among the sands through the limpid water . Some of the largest of these were gathered by the Indians and given to ...
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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...