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... carrying it into effect ? I had four ships ready to weigh anchor , three hundred brave men at my com- mand , and an open sea before me . What had I to do but to spread sail and press forward ? There was no doubt of finding a land ...
... carrying it into effect ? I had four ships ready to weigh anchor , three hundred brave men at my com- mand , and an open sea before me . What had I to do but to spread sail and press forward ? There was no doubt of finding a land ...
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... carried them off captive to the cacique of the province , by whose orders they were mewed up in a kind of pen . At first their situation appeared tolerable enough , considering the horrors from which they had escaped . They were closely ...
... carried them off captive to the cacique of the province , by whose orders they were mewed up in a kind of pen . At first their situation appeared tolerable enough , considering the horrors from which they had escaped . They were closely ...
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... carry enormous burdens . The cacique died soon after their capture and was succeeded by another called Taxmar . He was a chief of some talent and sagacity , but he continued the same rigorous treatment of the captives . By degrees they ...
... carry enormous burdens . The cacique died soon after their capture and was succeeded by another called Taxmar . He was a chief of some talent and sagacity , but he continued the same rigorous treatment of the captives . By degrees they ...
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... carried his pro- visions . The Spaniards proved to be a reconnoitring party sent out by Cortez to watch the approach of the canoe , which had been descried coming from Yucatan . Cortez had given up all hopes of being joined by the ...
... carried his pro- visions . The Spaniards proved to be a reconnoitring party sent out by Cortez to watch the approach of the canoe , which had been descried coming from Yucatan . Cortez had given up all hopes of being joined by the ...
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... carry him across , but when in the midst of the stream , they let him fall , and throwing themselves upon him , pressed him under water until he was drowned . Then dragging his body to the shore , and still doubt- ing his being dead ...
... carry him across , but when in the midst of the stream , they let him fall , and throwing themselves upon him , pressed him under water until he was drowned . Then dragging his body to the shore , and still doubt- ing his being dead ...
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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...