History of Florida from Its DiscoveryJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1871 - 338 страници |
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Adelantado afterwards Apalachee Arpeika arrived attack Augustine Ayllon band boats Cabeça de Vaca called camp Captain captured Carolina carried chief Clinch Coacoochee Colonel colony command Creek Cuba destroyed detachment East Florida English escaped Espiritu Santo expedition fire fleet force Fort Brooke Fort Caroline Fort Drane Fort King France French garrison Georgia Gourgues governor Gulf of Mexico harbor hostile Huguenots hundred and fifty Indian town inhabitants island Jesup John's River killed King Lake land large number Laudonnière leagues Lieutenant massacre Matanzas River Menendez ment Mexico Micanopy miles Mississippi Monteano Narvaez natives negroes number of Indians occupied officers Oglethorpe Osceola party Pensacola prisoners province provisions reached remained returned Ribaut sailed Seminoles sent sergeant-major settlement shores soon Soto Spain Spaniards Spanish surrender Suwanee swamps Tampa thousand three hundred tion treaty tribes Tristan de Luna troops United vessels warriors West Withlacoochee
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Страница 210 - His Britannic Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada ; he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Страница 110 - In the midst of this house is a hearth, where they make great fires all night, and they sleep upon certain pieces of wood, hewn in for the bowing of their backs and another place made high for their heads, which they put one by another all along the walls on both sides.
Страница 109 - The Floridians when they travell, have a kinde of herbe dried, who with a cane and an earthen cup in the end, with fire, and the dried herbs put together, doe sucke thorow the cane the smoke thereof, which smoke satisfieth their hunger, and...
Страница 66 - The river was almost half a league broad. If a man stood still on the other side, it could not be discerned whether he was a man or no. The river was of great depth, and of a strong current : the water was always muddy : there came down the river continually many trees and timber, which the force of the water and stream brought down.
Страница 108 - Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen had, the ground doth yield victuals sufficient if they would have taken pains to get the same ; but they, being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows.
Страница 213 - Lands, subject, at the Expiration of Ten Years, to the same Quit-Rents as other Lands are subject to in the Province within which they are granted, as also subject to the same Conditions of Cultivation and Improvement ; viz : To every person having the Rank of a Field Officer . . 5,000 Acres.
Страница 337 - I feel the irons in my heart. I have listened to your talk ; you and your officers have taken us by the hand in friendship. I thank you for bringing me back ; I can now see my warriors, my women and children ; the Great Spirit thanks you ; the heart of the poor Indian thanks you. We know but little ; we have no books which tell all things ; but we have the Great Spirit, moon, and stars ; these told me, last night, you would be our friend. I give you my word ; it is the word of a warrior, a chief,...