Discovery and ExplorationG. Barrie, 1903 - 506 pages |
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Admiral says afterwards America anchor arrived Azores Babeque beautiful believe birds Bjarni boat Brattahlid brought Cabo cacique called canoe cape Cape Bojador caravel caravel Pinta Castille Cathay Christians Christopher Columbus Cipango coast Columbus's crew Cuba day and night discovered discovery distance Erik the Red Española Europe expedition exploration fathoms fear Ferdinand Friday gave gold Greenland Guacanagari Guanahani Helluland Highnesses Hojeda houses hundred Iceland Indians Indies inhabitants island Karlsefne king la illa land Leif Lord mainland maravedies Martin Alonso Pinzon miles an hour Monte Cristi mountains natives navigation Norsemen one-half leagues ordered pilot Pinta port Portugal Portuguese reached river rocks route sailed sailors San Salvador Santa Maria seen sent shaped a course ship shore signs Skraelings Sovereigns Spain Spaniards spices steered sunrise sunset thence things told took trees Vespucci vessels village Vinland voyage western wind
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Page 448 - 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.
Page 102 - They should be good servants and of quick intelligence, since I see that they very soon say all that is said to them, and I believe that they would easily be made Christians, for it appeared to me that they had no creed.
Page 436 - Nova Albion, and that for two causes; the one in respect of the white banks and cliffs, which lie towards the sea, and the other, because it might have some affinity with our country in name, which sometime was so called.
Page 441 - We are as near to heaven by sea as by land' — reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a soldier, resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was.
Page 415 - This man was standing, perfectly naked, with his hands stretched out and raised toward the sun, as if he wished to screen himself from its rays, which nevertheless passed through his fingers to his face. When we came near him, he...
Page 295 - ... to seek out, discover, and find whatsoever isles, countries, regions, or provinces of the heathen and infidels whatsoever they be, and in what part of the world soever they be, which before this time have been unknown to all Christians.
Page 363 - Since the tempests which we encountered on the northern coasts, I have not written to your most Serene and Christian Majesty concerning the four ships sent out by your orders on the ocean to discover new lands, because I thought you must have been before...
Page 448 - The next day there came unto us divers boats, and in one of them the King's brother, accompanied with forty or fifty men, very handsome and goodly people, and in their behaviour as mannerly and civil as any of Europe.
Page 368 - ... forests. We approached it, and going ashore with twenty men, we went back from the coast about two leagues, and found that the people had fled and hid themselves in the woods for fear. By searching around we discovered in the grass a very old woman and a young girl of about eighteen or twenty, who had concealed themselves for the same reason ; the old woman carried two infants on her shoulders, and behind her neck a little boy eight years of age; when we came up to them they began to shriek and...
Page 469 - He saw mighty deer that seemed to be mankind, which ran at him, and hardly he escaped with his life in a narrow way, where he was fain to use defence and policy to save his life. / In this place he saw and perceived sundry tokens of the peoples resorting thither. And being ashore upon the top of a hill, he perceived a number of small things fleeting in the sea afar off, which he supposed to be , porpoises or seals, or some kind of strange fish ; but //coming nearer, he discovered them to be men in...