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, 1911 - 559 pages |
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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 - 1914 |
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Acla Adelantado Admiral alcalde Almagro Alonso Alonso de Ojeda America anchored año Antigua arrived Bachiller Balboa Bartolomé Bastidas Belen Buccaneers cacique called canal canoes Cape Captain Cartagena Castilla del Oro castle Chagres Chagres river chief coast colonists colony Columbus command Cuba Darien Diego Diego Colon Drake east Encisco English Espinosa expedition falleció fleet Francisco Francisco Pizarro Gasca Gil Gonzalez gold golden Gonzalo Gonzalo Pizarro governor Gulf of Urabá Hernando Hispaniola hundred Hurtado Indians Indies island Isthmus King land leagues miles Morgan mouth Natá natives negroes Nicaragua Nicuesa night Nombre de Dios Ocean Ojeda Oviedo party pearls Pedrarias Pedro Peru pesos Pizarro port Portobelo province Puerto Bello returned river Rodrigo Rodrigo de Bastidas royal sailed Santa Maria Santo Domingo sent settlement ships shore South Sea Spain Spaniards Spanish strait Tierra Firme took town Vasco Nuñez Veragua vessels voyage
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Page 19 - O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! 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 85 - Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. 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. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 84 - ... do to their Highnesses, and we in their name shall receive you in all love and charity, and shall leave you your wives, and your children, and your lands, free without servitude, that you may do with them and with yourselves freely that which you like and think best, and they shall not compel you to turn Christians, unless you yourselves, when informed of the truth, should wish to be converted to our Holy Catholic Faith, as almost all the inhabitants of the rest of the islands have done. And,...
Page 84 - Tierra-firme to the aforesaid King and Queen and to their successors, our lords, with all that there are in these territories, as is contained in certain writings which passed upon the subject as aforesaid, which you can see if you wish. "So their Highnesses are kings and lords of these islands and land of...
Page 77 - A waste of ice before us lies — we must turn back," said he. Westward they steered their tiny bark, Westward through weary weeks they sped. Till the cold gray strand of a stranger-land Loomed through the mist ahead. League after league they hugged the coast, And their Captain never left his post: "O Pilot, see you yet the strait that leads to the Eastern Sea ? " "I see but the rocks and the barren shore; no strait is there,
Page 42 - Ireland, in the west, to the farthest part of Guinea, with all the islands that lie in the way ; opposite to which western coast is described the beginning of the Indies, with the islands and places whither you may go, and how far you may bend from the North Pole towards the equinoctial, and for how long a time ; that is, how many leagues you may sail before you come to those places most fruitful in spices, jewels, and precious stones.
Page 51 - Here I cannot forbear to commend the patient virtue of the Spaniards : we seldom or never find that any nation hath endured so many misadventures and miseries as the Spaniards have done, in their Indian discoveries ; yet persisting in their enterprises with an invincible constancy, they have annexed to their kingdom so many goodly provinces, as bury the remembrance of all dangers past.
Page 68 - Comogre's son told of this sea to us, who never thought to see it, so I hold for certain that what he told us of there being incomparable treasures in it will be fulfilled. God and his blessed Mother, who have assisted...
Page 83 - Leon, subduers of the barbarous nations, we their servants notify and make known to you, as best we can, that the Lord our God, Living and Eternal, created the Heaven and the Earth, and one man and one woman, of whom you and we, and all the men of the world, were and are descendants, and all those who come after us. But, on account of the multitude which has sprung from this man and woman in the five thousand years since the world was created, it was necessary that some men should go one way and...
Page 66 - In the name of the Holy Trinity and Eternal Unity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, three persons really distinct and one divine essence which lives and reigns forever without end...
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