Old Panama and Castilla Del Oro: A Narrative History of the Discovery, Conquest and Settlement by the Spaniards of Panama, Darien, Veragua, Santo Domingo, Santa Marta, Cartagena, Nicaragua, and PeruPage Company, 1914 - 559 pages |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Old Panama and Castilla Del Oro: A Narrative History of the Discovery ... Charles Loftus Grant Anderson Affichage du livre entier - 1911 |
Old Panama and Castilla Del Oro: A Narrative History of the Discovery ... Charles Loftus Grant Anderson Affichage du livre entier - 1914 |
Old Panama and Castilla Del Oro: A Narrative History of the Discovery ... Charles Loftus Grant Anderson Affichage du livre entier - 1911 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Acla Admiral Almagro Alonso America año Antigua arrived Audiencia Balboa Bastidas boats Buccaneers Bugaba cacique called canal canoes Cape Captain captured Cartagena Castilla del Oro Chagres Chagres river chief Chiriqui Christians coast colony Columbus command Cruces Darien Diego east Encisco English Espinosa expedition fleet Francis Drake Francisco Francisco Pizarro fué Gil Gonzalez gold golden governor Guaimis Gulf Gulf of Urabá harbor Hernando Hispaniola houses hundred Indians island Isthmus Jamaica killed King Lake Nicaragua land leagues Luque Morgan mountains mouth Natá natives negroes Nicaragua Nicuesa night Nombre de Dios Ojeda Oviedo Pacific party Pearl Islands pearls Pedrarias Pedro Peru pesos Pizarro port province Puerto Bello region returned river royal sailed San Juan Santa sent settlement ships shore slaves South Sea Spain Spaniards Spanish strait Tierra Firme took town Urabá Vasco Nuñez Veragua vessels voyage West Indies women
Fréquemment cités
Page 76 - Push off, and sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the Western stars, until I die.
Page 3 - Thus these doors of the seas, and the keys of the universe, would, of course, be capable of enabling their possessors to give laws to both oceans, and to become the arbitrators of the commercial world, without being liable to the fatigues, expenses, and dangers, or of contracting such guilt and blood as Alexander and Caesar.
Page 69 - These are our realms, no limits to their sway— Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change.
Page 17 - The news of Drake's return did so speedily pass over all the church and surpass their minds with desire and delight to see him, that very few or none remained with the preacher, all hastening to see the evidence of God's love and blessing towards our gracious Queen and country.
Page 53 - He had been in pursuit of a chimera of a splendid imagination and a penetrating judgment. If he was disappointed in his expectation of finding a strait through the Isthmus of Darien, it was because nature herself was disappointed. For she appears to have attempted to make one, but to have attempted in
Page 7 - Captain Drake, If you fortune to come into this port make haste away; for the Spaniards which you had with you here last year have betrayed this place, and taken away all that you left here. I departed hence this present 7th July, 1572. Your very loving friend, JOHN GARRET. Notwithstanding this warning, Captain Drake
Page 6 - Where Drake first found, there last he lost his name, And for a tomb left nothing but his fame. His body's buried under some great wave, The sea that was his glory is his grave. On whom an epitaph none can truly make. For who can say, 'Here lies Sir Francis Drake
Page 56 - With respect to the Isthmus of Panama, I am assured by Burgoine that a survey was made, and a canal appeared very practicable; but the idea was suppressed for reasons altogether political. He has seen and minutely examined the report. This report is to me a vast desideratum, for reasons political and philosophical.
Page 65 - to Panama, on the continent of America; he told me 10,000 men would easily conquer all the Spanish Indies, they were so secure. They took great booty, and much greater had been taken, had they not been betrayed and so discovered before their approach, by which the Spaniards had time to carry their vast
Page 65 - Chains for the Admiral of the Ocean ! Chains For him who gave a new heaven, a new earth, As holy John had prophesied of me, Gave glory and more empire to the Kings Of Spain than all their battles! Chains for him
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