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Washington Irving. JUAN PONCE DE LEON , CONQUEROR OF PORTO RICO , AND DISCOV- ERER OF FLORIDA . Chapter 1 . RECONNOITRING EXPEDITION OF JUAN PONCE DE LEON TO THE ISLAND OF BORIQUEN . M [ 1508. ] ANY years had elapsed since the dis ...
Washington Irving. JUAN PONCE DE LEON , CONQUEROR OF PORTO RICO , AND DISCOV- ERER OF FLORIDA . Chapter 1 . RECONNOITRING EXPEDITION OF JUAN PONCE DE LEON TO THE ISLAND OF BORIQUEN . M [ 1508. ] ANY years had elapsed since the dis ...
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... Juan Ponce de Leon . He was a native of Leon in Spain , and in his boyhood had been page to Pedro Nuñez de Guzman , Señor of Toral . * From an early age he had been schooled to war , and had served in various campaigns against the Moors ...
... Juan Ponce de Leon . He was a native of Leon in Spain , and in his boyhood had been page to Pedro Nuñez de Guzman , Señor of Toral . * From an early age he had been schooled to war , and had served in various campaigns against the Moors ...
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... Juan Ponce de Leon had all the impatience of quiet life and the passion for exploit of a veteran campaigner . He had not been long in the tranquil command of his province of Hi- guey , before he began to cast a wistful eye tow- ards the ...
... Juan Ponce de Leon had all the impatience of quiet life and the passion for exploit of a veteran campaigner . He had not been long in the tranquil command of his province of Hi- guey , before he began to cast a wistful eye tow- ards the ...
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... Juan Ponce , in fact , was received into the bosom of the family , and the cacique exchanged names with him , which is the Indian pledge of per- petual amity . Juan Ponce also gave Christian names to the mother and step - father of the ...
... Juan Ponce , in fact , was received into the bosom of the family , and the cacique exchanged names with him , which is the Indian pledge of per- petual amity . Juan Ponce also gave Christian names to the mother and step - father of the ...
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... Juan Ponce de Leon . Chapter 11 . JUAN PONCE ASPIRES TO THE GOVERNMENT OF PORTO RICO . [ 1509. ] THE natives of Boriquen were more warlike than those of Hispaniola , being accustomed to the use of arms from the necessity of repelling ...
... Juan Ponce de Leon . Chapter 11 . JUAN PONCE ASPIRES TO THE GOVERNMENT OF PORTO RICO . [ 1509. ] THE natives of Boriquen were more warlike than those of Hispaniola , being accustomed to the use of arms from the necessity of repelling ...
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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...