The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the SouthwestYale University Press, 1921 - 320 من الصفحات |
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American Anza Arkansas Ayllón Carlos chief Cíbola coast colonists colony Colorado Coronado Cortés crossed Cruz Cuba Culiacán deserted dians Diego English Estevanico expedition explored Father Florida Fort Caroline France Francisco Fray Luís Fray Marcos French friars frontier gold golden Governor Havana Hernando Hernando de Soto horses hundred Indians island Jean Ribaut Jesuits journey Juan King Kino land later León Los Adaes Louisiana Lowery Matagorda Bay Menéndez Mexico missionaries missions Mississippi Monterey mountains Narváez Natchitoches natives northern northward O'Reilly Oñate ordered Pacaha Pacific Pánuco pearls Pensacola Bay Philip Ponce port province pueblo reached returned Ribaut Río Río Grande River route sailed Salle's San Antonio Santa Bárbara Santa Fé sent Serra settlement settlers ships shore slaves soldiers Sonora Soto Soto's Spain Spaniards Spanish Strait of Anian Texas tion town trade trail tribes Ulloa Vaca vessels Viceroy Vizcaíno West Zuñi
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الصفحة 247 - The Russian menace had been met. Spain's frontier had been advanced eight hundred miles. That the event was of more than local import was generally felt, and the news of it, hurried to Mexico by special courier and dispatch boat, was celebrated at the capital. "His Excellency [the Viceroy] wanted the whole population forthwith to share in the happiness which the information gave him, and therefore he ordered a general ringing of the bells of the cathedral and all the other churches^ in order that...
الصفحة 99 - Who could believe that 1,000 horses and 500 of our cows and more than 5,000 rams and ewes and more than 1,500 friendly Indians and servants, in traveling over those plains, would leave no more trace where they had passed than if nothing had been there — nothing — so that it was necessary to make piles of bones and cow dung now and then, so that the rear guard could follow the army.
الصفحة 93 - Those who stayed above had estimated that some huge rocks on the sides of the cliffs seemed to be about as tall as a man, but those who went down swore that when they reached these rocks they were bigger than the great tower of Seville.
الصفحة 166 - Early in April (1598) he reached the Medanos, the great sand dunes south of El Paso. On the twenty-sixth he camped on the river just below El Paso. Here on the thirtieth he took formal possession "of all the Kingdoms and provinces of New Mexico, on the Rio del Norte, in the name of our Lord King Philip.
الصفحة 179 - On the north side of the town is the square of soldiers' houses equal to 120 or 140 on each flank. The public square is in the center of the town, on the north side of which is situated the palace or Government house, with the quarters for the guards, etc.
الصفحة 16 - And whereas our principal intent in the discovery of new lands is that the inhabitants and natives thereof, who are without the light or knowledge of faith, may be brought to understand the truths of our holy Catholic faith, that they may come to a knowledge thereof and become Christians and be saved, and this is the chief motive that you are to bear and hold in this affair, and to this end it is proper that religious persons should accompany you...
الصفحة 93 - This country was elevated and full of low twisted pines, very cold, and lying open toward the north, so that, this being the warm season, no one could live there on account of the cold. They spent three days on this bank looking for a passage down to the river, which looked from above as if the water was six feet across, although the Indians said it was half a league wide.
الصفحة 90 - The next day they entered the settled country in good order, and when they saw the first village, which was Cibola, such were the curses that some hurled at Friar Marcos that I pray God may protect him from them.
الصفحة 33 - Such were what I carried into the interior; and in barter I got and brought back skins, ochre with which they rub and color the face, hard canes of which to make arrows, sinews, cement and flint for the heads, and tassels of the hah- of deer that by dyeing they make red.
الصفحة 169 - ... impossible to live there under the circumstances. The governor, in order not to lose his reputation, makes use of a thousand falsehoods, . . . sends thousands of souls to hell, and does things not fit to be mentioned by Christians. ... In all the expeditions he has butchered many Indians, human blood has been shed, and he has committed thefts, sackings, and other atrocities. I pray that God may grant him the grace to do penance for all his deeds.