Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America: Select Narratives from the "Principal Navigations" of HakluytClarendon Press, 1900 - 272 страници |
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... province , named from ! its extraordinary abundance in gold ' El Pais Dorado , ' or ' El Reino Dorado , ' and still undiscovered . More briefly it was called ' El Dorado , ' and all these names mean simply the ' Golden Land ' or ...
... province , named from ! its extraordinary abundance in gold ' El Pais Dorado , ' or ' El Reino Dorado , ' and still undiscovered . More briefly it was called ' El Dorado , ' and all these names mean simply the ' Golden Land ' or ...
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... province . He took possession of Sedeño's fort , built three brigantines , and ascended the river for a considerable distance - according to report , as far as its junction with the Meta , a large tributary navigable almost to the foot ...
... province . He took possession of Sedeño's fort , built three brigantines , and ascended the river for a considerable distance - according to report , as far as its junction with the Meta , a large tributary navigable almost to the foot ...
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... daughter - of Quesada , the original conqueror of that province . According to Raleigh , Berrio's wife was Quesada's heiress , and the quest of El Dorado was Berrio's Project . xxxi part of her inheritance . Quesada XXX Introduction .
... daughter - of Quesada , the original conqueror of that province . According to Raleigh , Berrio's wife was Quesada's heiress , and the quest of El Dorado was Berrio's Project . xxxi part of her inheritance . Quesada XXX Introduction .
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... province . After exploring the neighbouring mountains in several directions , this idea was abandoned . The whole district proved to be a densely forested wilderness , and the only thing to be done was to push on in force towards Manoa ...
... province . After exploring the neighbouring mountains in several directions , this idea was abandoned . The whole district proved to be a densely forested wilderness , and the only thing to be done was to push on in force towards Manoa ...
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... provinces in those northerly parts of America , if their many attempts into those foreign and remote lands had not been impeached by their garboils at home . The first discovery of these coasts , never heard of before , was well begun ...
... provinces in those northerly parts of America , if their many attempts into those foreign and remote lands had not been impeached by their garboils at home . The first discovery of these coasts , never heard of before , was well begun ...
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Страница 171 - Many years since I had knowledge, by relation, of that mighty, rich, and beautiful empire of Guiana, and of that great and golden city, which the Spaniards call El Dorado, and the naturals Manoa...
Страница 62 - We were entertained with all love and kindness, and with as much bounty (after their manner) as they could possibly devise. We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age.
Страница 46 - I will hasten to the end of this tragedy, which must be knit up in the person of our General. And as it was God's ordinance upon him, even so the vehement persuasion and entreaty of his friends could nothing avail to divert him of a wilful resolution of going through in his frigate; which was overcharged upon the decks with fights, nettings, and small artillery, too cumbersome for so small a boat that was to pass through the ocean sea at that season of the year, when by course we might expect much...
Страница 244 - Ewaipanoma : they are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts, and that a long train of hair growetb.
Страница 42 - At which very instant, even in winding about, there passed along between us and towards the land which we now forsook a very lion to our seeming, in shape, hair, and colour, not swimming after the manner of a beast by moving of his feet, but rather sliding upon the water with his whole body, excepting the legs, in sight, neither yet diving under, and again rising...
Страница 245 - Indies were discovered, we find his relations true of such things as heretofore were held incredible : whether it be true or no, the matter is not great, neither can there be any profit in the imagination ; for mine own part I saw them not, but I am resolved, that so many people did not all combine, or forethink, to make the report.
Страница xx - And as the Indies were not found, before Those rich perfumes which, from the happy shore, The winds upon their balmy wings convey'd, Whose guilty sweetness first their world betray'd; So by your counsels we are brought to view A rich and undiscover'd world in you. By you our monarch does that fame assure, Which kings must have, or cannot live secure: For prosperous princes gain their subjects...
Страница 63 - Idol, which they worship, of whom they speak incredible things. While we were at meat, there came in at the gates two or three men with their bows and arrows from hunting, whom when we espied, we began to look one towards another, and offered to reach our weapons, but as soon as she espied our mistrust, she was very much moved, and caused some of her men to run out, and take away their bows and arrows and break them, and withal beat the poor fellows out of the gate again. When we departed in the...
Страница 196 - Dudley told me he had seen. Upon this sight, and for the abundance of gold which he saw in the city, the images of gold in their temples, the plates, armours, and shields of gold which they use in the wars, he called it El Dorado.
Страница 222 - ... volumes of Herbals; we relieved ourselves many times with the fruits of the country, and sometimes with fowl and fish. We saw birds of all colours, some carnation, some crimson, orange-tawny, purple, watchet,™ and of all other sorts, both simple and mixed, and it was unto us a great good-passing of the time to behold them, besides the relief we found by killing some store of them with our fowlingpieces...