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Page 34
... fifty brave soldiers faithfully attached to him. That he was ambitious, and did severe things to obtain that power which he was never known to abuse, is admitted. His accounts and state-V mgnts were clear, and he had annexed the country ...
... fifty brave soldiers faithfully attached to him. That he was ambitious, and did severe things to obtain that power which he was never known to abuse, is admitted. His accounts and state-V mgnts were clear, and he had annexed the country ...
Page 38
... fifty-three soldiers, not including the mariners, who amounted to a hundred and ten. They possessed sixteen horses, some of them not very serviceable, ten brass field-pieces, four smaller pieces, called falconets, and thirty-two cross ...
... fifty-three soldiers, not including the mariners, who amounted to a hundred and ten. They possessed sixteen horses, some of them not very serviceable, ten brass field-pieces, four smaller pieces, called falconets, and thirty-two cross ...
Page 48
... fifty thousand pounds, and intended to represent the sun ; the other of silver, and representing the moon. As they gazed on the kingly present, the Spaniards could scarcely contain their raptures. The message which accompanied it ...
... fifty thousand pounds, and intended to represent the sun ; the other of silver, and representing the moon. As they gazed on the kingly present, the Spaniards could scarcely contain their raptures. The message which accompanied it ...
Page 73
... fifty Spaniards, and nearly four thousand Tlascalans, had been drowned, slain, or made prisoners during the passage along the causeway; a loss which, added to the numbers lrilled within the city, reduced the army to little more than a ...
... fifty Spaniards, and nearly four thousand Tlascalans, had been drowned, slain, or made prisoners during the passage along the causeway; a loss which, added to the numbers lrilled within the city, reduced the army to little more than a ...
Page 112
... fifty leagues. He named it the Vermillion or Red Sea, and it was subsequently styled, by his countrymen, the Sea of Cortes. This voyage was us orseovanr or ran oomnr. _ ' 113 ua'm'tunate. By storms. VIL-CAmolnnu - -112.
... fifty leagues. He named it the Vermillion or Red Sea, and it was subsequently styled, by his countrymen, the Sea of Cortes. This voyage was us orseovanr or ran oomnr. _ ' 113 ua'm'tunate. By storms. VIL-CAmolnnu - -112.
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Srrn usu or | 203 |
XXLle You | 269 |
CONTENTS | 315 |
CHARICXlIFCmngI 01334 | 354 |
XXXLCmunl or 1178 | 377 |
MILCmqu or 1780 | 403 |
Cuuml or | 417 |
XXXVILAnlmlsrnrnon or Joan Anna | 454 |
OPmunoru or Gun Tumult | 544 |
APPENDIX | 679 |
AIIHCLII or CONISDlIATION | 691 |
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