Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries: From the Time of Columbus to the Present Period ...E. Newbery, 1796 |
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Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries ... William Fordyce Mavor Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries ... William Fordyce Mavor Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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Seite 172 - ... according to the degree in which corruption has prevailed over them, or the manner in which it has attacked them. Some appear dry and withered; others have a sort of parchment upon their bones...
Seite 116 - ... fufferings they had endured under the Spaniards, told them that they committed thefe outrages for the fake of a great lord of whom they were very fond, and whom he would mew them. Then taking fome gold out of a little palm-tree...
Seite 87 - ... the day before the eclipfe, he told them, by his interpreter, that he and his people were Chriftians and believed in God, who created Heaven and Earth, rewarded the righteous and punifhed the wicked, and therefore would not...
Seite 253 - ... of them having been flung into the sea, bound hand and foot, the rest through fear delivered up their goods. All the children were carried into the admiral's ship,* and the remainder of the plunder given up to the sailors. After which Stephen de Gama, by order of the admiral, set fire to the ship. But the Moors having broken up the hatches under which they were confined, and quenched the flames, Stephen was ordered to lay them aboard.
Seite 173 - Then the dead bodies are carried from the cabins for the general reinterment. A great pit is dug in the ground, and thither, at a certain time, each perfon, attended by his family and friends, marches in folemn filence, bearing the dead body of a fon, a father, or a brother. When they are all convened, the dead bodies, or...
Seite 197 - Admiral's giving orders that no more than four fhould be admitted. Thefe four feemed by their drefs to be above the common rank, and thefe he obliged to lay afide their...
Seite 26 - Lifbon, which they accidentally difcovered at midnight ; but having weathered it with great difficulty, he was the next day obliged to come to an anchor in the river Tagus, on...
Seite 192 - Portuguefe going on fhore, they began to play upon four flutes, accompanied with feveral voices, which made no difagreeable mufic. The Admiral ftriking in with this humour, ordered the trumpets to found, while his men danced along with the natives, and thus the day pafied in mirth and feafting.
Seite 194 - ... returned them thanks, and called the place the Land of Good People. Departing from thence on the 15th of January, they proceeded along a low coast, full of very large and lofty trees, as far as Cape Corientes, or the Cape of Currents, proceeding fifty leagues beyond Sofala, without seeing that city. On the 24th they entered the mouth of a very large river, up which Da Gama, with several of the men, proceeded in their boats ; the land was low like the former, and abounded in tall trees laden with...
Seite 136 - we believe that the great prince, to whom you pay " obedience, is a deicendant of Quezalcoal, lord of " the feven caves of the Navatlaques, and lawful " fovereign of the feven nations that gave rife to the " Mexican empire. For from the tradition of many " ages, we know that he left thefe countries to con...