De Orbe Novo: The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera, المجلد 2G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 - 472 من الصفحات |
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... ground , and three others leaning obliquely upon stones . This is the place of punishment for criminals , as was proven by the Spaniards seeing marks of blood in many of the streets , broken arrows , and the bones of victims thrown into ...
... ground , and three others leaning obliquely upon stones . This is the place of punishment for criminals , as was proven by the Spaniards seeing marks of blood in many of the streets , broken arrows , and the bones of victims thrown into ...
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... ground being swampy , they sank into the mud , and twenty - two of them were killed with arrows . Almost all the others were wounded and the commander of the expedition , Francisco Fernandez , is said to have received thirty - three ...
... ground being swampy , they sank into the mud , and twenty - two of them were killed with arrows . Almost all the others were wounded and the commander of the expedition , Francisco Fernandez , is said to have received thirty - three ...
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... ground are made , but neither iron nor steel . Let us now examine the gifts sent to the King , and we will begin with the books.❜ A Flemish coin of the period . A list of the various articles of value taken to Spain by Portocarrero and ...
... ground are made , but neither iron nor steel . Let us now examine the gifts sent to the King , and we will begin with the books.❜ A Flemish coin of the period . A list of the various articles of value taken to Spain by Portocarrero and ...
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... ground , extracting and sifting gold . The Royal Council has , therefore , unanimously decided to restore them their liberty , and henceforth they will only occupy themselves with agri- culture , and will make efforts to repeople the ...
... ground , extracting and sifting gold . The Royal Council has , therefore , unanimously decided to restore them their liberty , and henceforth they will only occupy themselves with agri- culture , and will make efforts to repeople the ...
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... ground with the right hand , and then , in token of submission , kissing the spot of earth touched by their hand . ' All these noblemen belonged to the court , and behind them the much - desired sovereign approached . The causeway , as ...
... ground with the right hand , and then , in token of submission , kissing the spot of earth touched by their hand . ' All these noblemen belonged to the court , and behind them the much - desired sovereign approached . The causeway , as ...
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الصفحة 447 - This preservation photocopy was made at BookLab. Inc. In compliance with copyright law. The paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO...
الصفحة 262 - The idols are carried in procession amidst pomp, accompanied by the entire people. It will not be useless to describe this ceremony. On the eve of the festival the king has his bed made in the room where the idols stand, and sleeps in their presence. At daybreak the people assemble, and the king himself carries these idols, hugging them to his breast, to the top of his palace, where he exhibits them to the people. He and they are saluted with respect and fear by the people, who fall upon their knees...
الصفحة 261 - This tail was not movable like those of the quadrupeds, but formed one mass as we see is the case with fish and crocodiles, and was as hard as a bone. When these men wished to sit down, they had consequently to have a seat with an open bottom ; and if there was none, they had to dig a hole more than a cubit deep to hold their tails and allow them to rest.
الصفحة 271 - All these instructions have been thought out by prudent and human jurisconsults and sanctioned by religious men. But what of that? When our compatriots reach that remote world, so far away and so removed from us, beyond the ocean whose courses imitate the changing heavens, they find themselves distant from any judge. Carried away by...
الصفحة 259 - In all these regions they visited the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle. These deer bring forth and nourish their young in the houses of the natives. During the daytime they wander freely through the woods in search of their food, and in the evening they come back to their little ones, who have been cared for, allowing themselves to be shut up in the courtyards and even to be milked, when they have stickled their fawns.
الصفحة 267 - I now come to a fact which will appear incredible to your excellency. You already know that the ruler of this region is a tyrant of gigantic size. How does it happen that only he and his wife have attained this extraordinary size? No one of their subjects has explained this to me, but I have questioned the above-mentioned...
الصفحة 261 - There is another country called Inzignanin, whose inhabitants declare that, according to the tradition of their ancestors, there once arrived amongst them men with tails a meter long and as thick as a man's arm. This tail was not movable like those of the quadrupeds, but formed one mass as we see is the case with fish and crocodiles, and was as hard as a bone. When these men wished to sit down, they had consequently to have a seat with an open bottom ; and if there was...
الصفحة 260 - ... the inhabitants wear a distinctive priestly costume, and they are regarded as priests and venerated as such by their neighbors. They cut their hair, leaving only two locks growing on their temples, which are bound under the chin. When the natives make war against their neighbors, according to the regrettable custom of mankind, these priests are invited by both sides to be present, not as actors, but as witnesses of the conflict. When the battle is about to open, they circulate among the warriors...
الصفحة 264 - ... the functions of orator. Ordinarily he pronounces a eulogy on the deceased, or on the immortality of the soul, or the future life. He says that souls originally came from the icy regions of the north, where perpetual snow prevails. They therefore expiate their sins under the master of that region who is called Mateczungua. but they return to the southern regions, where another great sovereign, Quexuga, governs.