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... accompanied by a buxom damsel of fourteen years of age . They were to pass the night by the seaside , so as to be ready to fish at the first dawn of day , and were allowed but one hammock to sleep in . It was an embar- rassing ...
... accompanied by a buxom damsel of fourteen years of age . They were to pass the night by the seaside , so as to be ready to fish at the first dawn of day , and were allowed but one hammock to sleep in . It was an embar- rassing ...
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... accompany him in his escape . The sturdy seaman was at this time a great chieftain in his province , and his Indian bride had borne him a numerous progeny . His heart however yearned after his native country , and he might have been ...
... accompany him in his escape . The sturdy seaman was at this time a great chieftain in his province , and his Indian bride had borne him a numerous progeny . His heart however yearned after his native country , and he might have been ...
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... accompany him , he launched forth in the canoe and coasted the mainland until he came to the narrowest part of the strait , where it was but four leagues across ; here he stood directly for Cozumel , contending as well as he was able ...
... accompany him , he launched forth in the canoe and coasted the mainland until he came to the narrowest part of the strait , where it was but four leagues across ; here he stood directly for Cozumel , contending as well as he was able ...
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... accompanied by but three Spaniards , although he had to pass through close and lonely forests where he would be at the mercy of any treacherous or lurking foe . The cacique watched the departure of his intended victim and set out very ...
... accompanied by but three Spaniards , although he had to pass through close and lonely forests where he would be at the mercy of any treacherous or lurking foe . The cacique watched the departure of his intended victim and set out very ...
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... accompanied him shared his fate , being assailed , not merely by the warriors who had come in pursuit of them , but by their own Indian guides . When Agueybanà had glutted his vengeance on this unfortunate cavalier he returned in quest ...
... accompanied him shared his fate , being assailed , not merely by the warriors who had come in pursuit of them , but by their own Indian guides . When Agueybanà had glutted his vengeance on this unfortunate cavalier he returned in quest ...
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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...