Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of Columbus to the Present Period, Nide 1

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J. Swan and Company, 1801 - 288 sivua
 

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Sivu 176 - ... according to the degree in which corruption has prevailed over them, or the manner in which it has attacked them. Some appear dry and withered; others have a sort of parchment upon their bones; some look as if they were baked and smoked, without any appearance of rottenness; some are just turning towards the point of putrefaction'; while others are all swarming with worms, and drowned in corruption. I know not...
Sivu 134 - gave " gave rife to the Mexican Empire. For from " the tradition of many ages, we know that " he left thefe countries to conquer new regions " in the eaft, with a promife that in procefs of -" time his defqendants fhould return to new-mo" del our laws, and reform our government.
Sivu 177 - Then the dead bodies are carried from the cabins for the general reinterment. A great pit is dug in the ground, and thither, at a certain time, each perfon, attended by his family and friends, marches in folemn filence, bearing the dead body of a fon, a father, or a brother.
Sivu 134 - In a word, we believe that the great prince, to whom you pay obedience, is a defcendant of Quezalcoal, lord of the feven caves of the Navatlaques, and lawful fovereign of the feven nations that gave rife to the Mexican empire. For, from the tradition of many ages, we know that he left thefe countries to conquer new regions in the eaft, with a promife, that in procefs of time his defcendants mould return to new-model our laws, and reform our government.
Sivu 95 - He had an earnest concern for the conversion of the Indians, and endeavoured as much as was in his power to allure them, by obliging the Spaniards to lead a life in some measure agreeable to the faith they professed. He was a man of undaunted courage ; was fond of great enterprises...
Sivu 209 - When the cutival and his train came before the chapel, they fell flat on the ground, with their hands before them, three times ; and then prayed Handing.
Sivu 74 - Admiral now failing with a frefh gale to the eaftward, held on his courfe to five towns of great trade, among which was Veragua, where the Indians faid the gold was gathered, and the plates made, which they wore about their necks, and continuing his voyage, he arrived at an.
Sivu 116 - ... fufferings they had endured under the Spaniards, told them that they committed thefe outrages for the fake of a great lord of whom they were very fond, and whom he would mew them. Then taking fome gold out of a little palm-tree...
Sivu 257 - ... of them having been flung into the sea, bound hand and foot, the rest through fear delivered up their goods. All the children were carried into the admiral's ship,* and the remainder of the plunder given up to the sailors. After which Stephen de Gama, by order of the admiral, set fire to the ship. But the Moors having broken up the hatches under which they were confined, and quenched the flames, Stephen was ordered to lay them aboard.
Sivu 133 - Before you mention the particulars " of your embafly, illuftrious captain, let you and I " lay afide the prejudices we have each imbibed of " the other, from the mifreprefentations of common " report. You have been in fome places told that I " am a god ; that my power is invincible, and my '' riches immenfe; that my palaces are covered with '' gold, and that the earth groans beneath the weight •

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