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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... gold , they dive into the river and bring up handfuls of sand , which they then sift from one hand to the other , taking out the gold . It is claimed that within a space of two hours they can fill a tube as long as your finger . Much ...
... gold , they dive into the river and bring up handfuls of sand , which they then sift from one hand to the other , taking out the gold . It is claimed that within a space of two hours they can fill a tube as long as your finger . Much ...
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... gold mines.1 The Spaniards next undertook an expedition to another of the neighbouring islands , which are more numerous thereabouts than the Symplegades ' in the Ionian Sea , to which the vulgar give the general name of Archipelago ...
... gold mines.1 The Spaniards next undertook an expedition to another of the neighbouring islands , which are more numerous thereabouts than the Symplegades ' in the Ionian Sea , to which the vulgar give the general name of Archipelago ...
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... gold in the form of grains . The natives wear various kinds of necklaces and masks made of gilded wood or ingeniously wrought gold , for they are very clever artisans . Francisco Chieregato , nunzio of Your Holiness to the court of our ...
... gold in the form of grains . The natives wear various kinds of necklaces and masks made of gilded wood or ingeniously wrought gold , for they are very clever artisans . Francisco Chieregato , nunzio of Your Holiness to the court of our ...
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... neighbouring islands . They traded gold and other merchandise for them . In fact , nowhere throughout the length and breadth of this vast new country do the natives busy themselves about money , which is The Fourth Decade 27.
... neighbouring islands . They traded gold and other merchandise for them . In fact , nowhere throughout the length and breadth of this vast new country do the natives busy themselves about money , which is The Fourth Decade 27.
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... gold to the royal treasurer of Hispaniola , Miguel de Passamonte , and at the same time to solicit provisions , arms , and rein- forcements for the colonists at Darien . Wrecked , as is here told , on the reefs off the coast of Jamaica ...
... gold to the royal treasurer of Hispaniola , Miguel de Passamonte , and at the same time to solicit provisions , arms , and rein- forcements for the colonists at Darien . Wrecked , as is here told , on the reefs off the coast of Jamaica ...
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الصفحة 273 - I may therefore affirm that God has never created a race more full of vice and composed without the least mixture of kindness or culture . . . The Indians are more stupid than asses, and refuse to improve in...
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الصفحة 260 - 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 259 - 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 269 - 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 257 - 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 265 - 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 259 - 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 276 - Aquesta nació sin par, Yo en serviros sin segundo, Vos sin igual en el mundo.