West American History, Band 6,Teil 1Bancroft Company, 1902 |
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Seite 371 - ... ancient or modern, in times past, present, or to come, without any contradiction...
Seite 164 - Flushed with the idea of the vast wealth now to accrue to himself, he made a vow to furnish within seven years an army, consisting of four thousand horse, and fifty thousand foot, for the rescue of the holy sepulchre, and a similar force •within the five following years.
Seite 266 - Castillians, giving to one man fifty, to another a hundred; with a deed that ran thus: 'to you, such a one, is given an encomienda of so many Indians, with such a Cacique, and you are to teach them the things of our Holy Catholic Faith'.
Seite 95 - ... Hollander by land and the Englishman by sea, and he failed in both objects. When Drake returned from his famous voyage of circumnavigation in 1580, and the Spanish ambassador, Mendoza, pleaded the Bull of Alexander VI., of 1498, by which Spain was to have "all lands discovered and to be discovered, beyond a line drawn from pole to pole one hundred leagues west of the Azores," the answer of Queen Elizabeth was emphatic and to the point.
Seite xxxv - Cockburn (John). A Journey over Land from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South Sea. Performed by John Cockburn and Five other Englishmen, who were taken by a Spanish Guarda Costa in the John and Jane...
Seite 68 - A history of the discovery of the East Coast of North America, particularly the Coast of Maine, from the Northmen in 990 to the Charter of Gilbert in 1578.
Seite xliii - Gordon (James Bentley), An Historical and Geographical Memoir of the North- American Continent, its Nations and Tribes. Dublin, 1820.
Seite 275 - Indias. he was ardent, ofttimes imprudent, always eloquent and truthful, and as impudently bold and brazen as any cavalier among them all. Nor was he by any means a discontented man. He sought nothing for himself; he had nothing that man could take from him except life, upon which he set no value, or except some of its comforts, which were too poor at best to trouble himself about. His cause, which was the right, gave breadth and volume to his boldness, beside which the courage of the hare-brained...
Seite 242 - His temper was naturally irritable; but he subdued it by the magnanimity of his spirit, comporting himself with a courteous and gentle gravity, and never indulging in any intemperance of language. Throughout his life...
Seite 262 - Christian commanders; the inhabitants of those lands were erown tenants, and liferights to their services were given these commanders. In the legislation of the Indies, encomienda was the patronage conferred by royal favor over a portion of the natives, coupled with the obligation to teach them the doctrines of the Church, and to defend their persons and property. It was originally intended that the recipients of these favors were to be the discoverers, conquerors, meritorious settlers, and their...