Narrative and Critical History of America, Volume 2

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Justin Winsor
Houghton, Mifflin, 1886 - America
 

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Page 133 - I have come to another conclusion respecting the Earth, namely, that it is not round as they describe, but of the form of a pear, which is very round except where the stalk grows, at which part it. is most prominent...
Page 442 - Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California...
Page 135 - God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth, of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah, and he showed me the spot where to find it.
Page 507 - Look out, Senor Governor, For the drover while he's near; Since he goes home to get the sheep For the butcher, who stays here."* cosa de risa todo, pues la riquezas se habian convertido en flechas, y no havia otra cosa.
Page 427 - Ixtlilxochitl. (See his Idea de una Nueva Historia General de la America Septentrional [Madrid, 1746], p.
Page 601 - Magellan was not altogether deceived in naming them giants, for they generally differ from the common sort of men, both in stature, bigness, and strength of body, as also in the hideousness of their voice; but yet they are nothing so monstrous or giantlike as they were reported...
Page 133 - In the dead of night, while I was on deck, I heard an awful roaring that came from the south, toward the ship ; I stopped to observe what it might be, and I saw the sea rolling from west to east like a mountain, as high as the ship, and approaching by little and little ; on the top of this rolling sea came a mighty wave roaring with a frightful noise...
Page 166 - Waltxemiiller, pp. 54, 55) describes a copy which belonged to Ye'me'niz, of Lyons. Brockhaus advertised one in 1861 (Tromel, no. i). Another was sold in Paris for 2,000 francs in 1867. There was another in the Sobolewski sale (no. 3,769), and one in the Court Catalogue (no. 92). Leclerc, 1878 (no. 599), has advertised one for 500 francs, Harrassowitz, 1881, (no.
Page 333 - Indias: sobre la materia de los yndios que se han hecho en ellas esclauos.
Page 535 - The emperor appointed a committee composed of churchmen and lawyers of the highest position in 1542, to consider the whole subject. The result was the promulgation of what were called the "New Laws." I. After the death of the conquerors, the repartimientos of Indians, given to them in encomienda, were not to pass to their heirs, but were to be placed under the king.