The life and voyages of Christopher COlumbusPollard & Moss, 1882 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adelantado admiral Almirante Alonso de Ojeda Alonzo Anacaona anchored appeared arms arrived beautiful beheld boat Bobadilla brother brought cacique called canoes Caonabo Cape caravel Caribs Casas Charlevoix Cibao cique coast colony Colum Columbus command continued court crew Cuba decad discovered discovery distance Don Bartholomew Don Diego enterprise expedition favor Ferdinand Fernando Fonseca forests fortress gave the name Genoa gold Guacanagari Guarionex harbor Herrera Hispaniola Hist Indians inhabitants Isabella island Juan kind king land leagues letter los Palacios lumbus Marco Polo Mendez ment miral mountains natives Navarrete navigation night ocean Ojeda Ovando Oviedo Paria Pedro persons Peter Martyr Pinzon port Portugal present prince provisions received remained river Roldan royal sail San Domingo San Salvador savage sent Seville ships shore sovereigns Spain Spaniards Spanish spirit supposed tain tion took trees various Vega Vespucci vessels village voyage wind World Xaragua
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 355 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Seite 231 - What visions of glory would have broken upon his mind, could he have known that he had indeed discovered a new continent, equal to the whole of the Old World in magnitude, and separated by two vast oceans from all the earth hitherto known by civilized man...
Seite 74 - ... the heathen for an inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for a possession.
Seite 41 - They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited.
Seite 42 - ... and unknown regions ? Had he come upon some wild island far in the Indian sea; or was this the famed Cipango itself, the object of his golden fancies? A thousand speculations of the kind must have swarmed upon him, as, with his anxious crews, he waited for the night to pass away ; wondering whether the morning light would reveal a savage wilderness, or dawn upon spicy groves, and glittering fanes, and gilded cities, and all the splendor of oriental civilization.
Seite 71 - Don Christopher Columbus, our Admiral of the Ocean Sea, and Viceroy and Governor of the Islands discovered in the Indies;" at the same time he was promised still further rewards.
Seite 41 - The breeze had been fresh all day, with more sea than usual, and they had made great progress. At sunset they had stood again to the west, and were ploughing the waves at a rapid rate, the Pinta keeping the lead from her superior sailing.
Seite 42 - Some begged favors of him, as if he had already wealth and honors in his gift. Many abject spirits, who had outraged him by their insolence, now crouched at' his feet, begging pardon for all the trouble they had caused him, and promising the blindest obedience for the future.
Seite 43 - The natives of the island were no less objects of curiosity to the Spaniards, differing as they did from any race of men they had ever seen. Their appearance gave no promise of either wealth or civilization, for they were entirely naked, and painted with a variety of colours.
Seite 25 - Is there any one so foolish," he asks, " as to believe that there are antipodes with their feet opposite to ours ; people who walk with their heels upward, and their heads hanging down ? That there is a part of the world in which all things are topsyturvy : where the trees grow with their branches downward, and where it rains, hails and snows upward ? The idea of the roundness of the earth...