Columbus Memorial: Containing the First Letter of Columbus Descriptive of His Voyage to the New World, the Latin Letter to His Royal Patrons & a Narrative of the Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci ...George Young Jordan Bros., 1893 - 167 páginas |
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Página 28 - En todas estas islas non vide mucha diversidad de la fechura de la gente, ni en las costumbres, ni en la lengua, salvo que todos se entienden, que es cosa muy singular...
Página 40 - ... parts, and so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or signs, and they have been very serviceable.
Página 135 - Iti: and having manned our boats with strong crews, and (taken ammunition for) three cannon-shots in each, we made for land : where we found (assembled) about ' 400 men, and many women, and all naked like the former (peoples'). They were of good bodily presence, and seemed right warlike men : for they were armed with their weapons, which are bows, arrows, and lances : and most of them had square wooden targets : and bore them in such wise that they did not impede the drawing of the bow : and when...
Página 29 - En estas islas, fasta aquí no he hallado hombres mostrudos, como muchos pensaban ; mas antes es toda gente de muy lindo acatamiento, ni son negros como en Guinea, salvo con sus cabellos...
Página 116 - ... thus running along the coast with the land ever in sight, continually in our course observing people along the shore: till after having navigated for two days, we found a place sufficiently secure for the ships, and anchored half a league from land, on which we saw a very great number of people: and this same day we put to land with the boats, and sprang on shore full 40 men in good trim: and still the land's people appeared shy of converse with us, and we were unable to encourage them so much...
Página 27 - Ellos tienen en todas las islas muy muchas canoas, a manera de fustas de remo: dellas mayores, dellas menores; y algunas y muchas son mayores que una fusta de diez y ocho bancos: no son tan anchas, porque son de un solo madero; mas una fusta no terna con ellas al remo, porque van que no es cosa de creer; y con estas navegan todas aquellas islas, que son innumerables y traen sus mercaderías. Algunas destas canoas he visto con setenta y ochenta hombres en ella, y cada uno con su remo.
Página 45 - Eternal God our Lord' who gives to all those who walk His way, victory over things which seem impossible ; and this was signally one such, for although " men have talked or written of those lands, it was all by conjecture, without confirmation from eyesight...
Página 40 - Heaven [as appears] from much conversation which they have had with me. And they were the first to proclaim it wherever I arrived; and the others went running from house to house and to the neighboring villages, with loud cries of "Come! come to see the people from Heaven!
Página 124 - ... which it would be long to relate: they are much vitiated in the phlegm and in the blood because of their food which consists chiefly of roots of herbs, and fruits and fish: they have no seed of wheat nor other grain : and for their ordinary use and feeding, they have a root of a tree, from which they make flour, tolerably good, and they call it luca, and...
Página 133 - ... making in our course many halts, and holding intercourse with many peoples: and in several places we obtained gold by barter but not much in quantity, for we had done enough in discovering the land and learning that they had gold. We had now been thirteen months on the voyage: and the vessels and the...