No Longer on the Map: Discovering Places that Never WereIncludes material on El Dorado, Friesland, St. Brendan and Breasil, Seven Cities (Cibola, Quivira), the Northwest Passage, Greenland, Mayda. |
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... Indian told him of the land of Popayán , still farther north , and of its people , the Muysca , whose new chiefs were installed with the ceremony of the Gilded Man . By now the Indians knew that the best way to get rid of the Spaniards ...
... Indian told him of the land of Popayán , still farther north , and of its people , the Muysca , whose new chiefs were installed with the ceremony of the Gilded Man . By now the Indians knew that the best way to get rid of the Spaniards ...
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... Indian kingdoms to be con- quered , and it was curious how many of the rumors drifting down from farther north coincided with their own traditional Seven Cities stereotype . There was the Aztec legend of the Seven Caves some- where to ...
... Indian kingdoms to be con- quered , and it was curious how many of the rumors drifting down from farther north coincided with their own traditional Seven Cities stereotype . There was the Aztec legend of the Seven Caves some- where to ...
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... Indians of the Manitoba region an account of another river to the west . An Indian who said he had traveled down it told him that it led to a land where the climate was warm , where there grew a kind of pepper and a kind of cacao ...
... Indians of the Manitoba region an account of another river to the west . An Indian who said he had traveled down it told him that it led to a land where the climate was warm , where there grew a kind of pepper and a kind of cacao ...
Contents
The Maybe of Mayda | 213 |
Three Special Cases | 223 |
Epilogue | 238 |
Copyright | |
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