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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... island Isla de los Sacrificios . A number of other islands lie off the coast of Coluacan , which are inhabited only by women , ' who have no re- lations with men . Some people think they live as did the Amazons , but others who have ...
... island Isla de los Sacrificios . A number of other islands lie off the coast of Coluacan , which are inhabited only by women , ' who have no re- lations with men . Some people think they live as did the Amazons , but others who have ...
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... islands , remarkable for the fertility of their soil and the abundance of their crops . These islands are called Guanaxa , Guitilla , and Guanagua ' ; and in one of them they captured three hundred natives of both sexes , who had in no ...
... islands , remarkable for the fertility of their soil and the abundance of their crops . These islands are called Guanaxa , Guitilla , and Guanagua ' ; and in one of them they captured three hundred natives of both sexes , who had in no ...
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... island where they burned the caravel , taking care to keep the arms , and regained their native land in their own barques . They took the Spaniards who had been left in charge of the brigantine by surprise . Upon the shore there grew a ...
... island where they burned the caravel , taking care to keep the arms , and regained their native land in their own barques . They took the Spaniards who had been left in charge of the brigantine by surprise . Upon the shore there grew a ...
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... islands , which are more numerous thereabouts than the Symplegades ' in the Ionian Sea , to which the vulgar give the general name of Archipelago . They got a bad reception , and all who landed were either killed or wounded . It is ...
... islands , which are more numerous thereabouts than the Symplegades ' in the Ionian Sea , to which the vulgar give the general name of Archipelago . They got a bad reception , and all who landed were either killed or wounded . It is ...
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... islands of Cozumel , Yucatan , and Coluacan or Oloa ; rich and truly Elysian lands , which have just been discovered , and from which I have somewhat wandered . The great importance of these regions is already fully understood ...
... islands of Cozumel , Yucatan , and Coluacan or Oloa ; rich and truly Elysian lands , which have just been discovered , and from which I have somewhat wandered . The great importance of these regions is already fully understood ...
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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.