History of California, Volume 1N.J. Stone, 1898 - History |
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Popular passages
Page 51 - Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise...
Page 94 - ... of man : infinite was the company of very large and fat Deere which there we sawe by thousands, as we supposed, in a heard ; besides a multitude of a strange...
Page 101 - I navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit to me was a great ship of the king's, which I took at California,
Page 51 - Amazons. They were of strong and hardened bodies, of ardent courage, and of great force. The island was the strongest in the world, from its steep rocks and great cliffs. Their arms were all of gold ; and so were the caparisons of the wild beasts which they rode, after having tamed them ; for in all the island there is no other metal.
Page 262 - Bengal and the Canary Islands. The sky is constantly serene and of a deep blue, and without a cloud ; and should any clouds appear for a moment at the setting of the sun, they display the most beautiful shades of violet, purple, and green.
Page 621 - She was lively and animated, had sparkling, love-inspiring eyes, beautiful teeth, pleasing and expressive features, a fine form, and a thousand other charms; yet her manners were perfectly simple and artless!
Page 41 - ... que todos los que tienen alguna ciencia y experiencia en la navegación de las Indias han tenido por muy cierto que descubriendo por estas partes la mar del Sur se habían de hallar muchas islas ricas de oro y perlas y piedras preciosas y especería, y se habían de descubrir y hallar otros muchos secretos y cosas admirables...
Page 140 - I believe,' says Father Torquemanda, 'that the devil was in those crows and spoke through them, for they were regarded with great respect and veneration;' and in further illustration of this he relates that on another occasion, when several Indian women were washing fish upon the beach, the crows approached and snatched the food from their hands; and that the women stood in such awe that they dared not drive them away, and were horrified when the Spaniards threw stones at them."** To quote further,...
Page 637 - Indians who had assisted in the mass of the morning and the bull and bear fight of the afternoon furnished the music for the dances; and they did it well, being much more accustomed even for their church music to lively and inspiriting operatic airs and dancing tunes than to slow and lugubrious elegies and dirges. The programme consisted of contradan^as, minuets, Aragonese jotas, and various other dances usual among the Spanish population. It was the custom to accompany the dancing with the singing...
Page 86 - Hereupon, the man, being influenced with ambition of glory and hopes of wealth, was so vehemently transported with desire to navigate that sea, that falling down there upon his knees, he implored the Divine assistance that he might, at some time or other, sail thither and make a perfect discovery of the same ; and hereunto he bound himself with a vow.