Historical Collections of Louisiana and Florida: Including Translations of Original Manuscripts Relating to Their Discovery and Settlement, with Numerous Historical and Biographical Notes ; New SeriesJ. Sabin & sons, 1869 - 362 pagine |
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Historical Collections of Louisiana and Florida: Including Translations of ... Benjamin Franklin French Visualizzazione completa - 1869 |
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Pagina 239 - ... whereof the battlements were made. In the midst, I caused a great court to be made, of eighteen paces long and broad, in the midst whereof, on the one side drawing toward the south, I builded a...
Pagina 170 - Laudonniere is evidently speaking of the same designs when he remarks: The most part of them have their bodies, arms, and thighs painted with very fair devices, the painting whereof can never be taken away, because the same is pricked into their...
Pagina 109 - Church, where they have prayers, they receive instruction, and chant some canticles. When they have retired, Mass is said, at which all the Christians assist, the men placed on one side and the women on the other; then they have prayers, which are followed by giving them a homily, after which each one goes to his labor. We then spend our time in visiting the sick, to give them the necessary remedies, to instruct them, and to console those who are laboring under any affliction. After noon the catechising...
Pagina 215 - And, every day, they fared worse and worse; for, after they had eaten up their boots and their leather jerkins, there arose so boisterous a wind, and so contrary to their course, that, in the turning of a hand, the waves filled their vessels half full of water, and bruised it upon the one side.
Pagina 212 - And though there were no man among them that had any skill, notwithstanding, necessity, which is the mistress of all sciences, taught them the way to build it. After that it was finished, they thought of nothing else saving how to furnish it with all things necessary to undertake the voyage. But they wanted those things, that, of all others, were most needful, as cordage and sails, without which the enterprise could not come to effect.
Pagina 251 - The ceremony which this savage used, before he embarked his army, deserveth not to be forgotten ; for, when he was sitting down by the river's side, being compassed about with ten other paracoussies, he commanded water to be brought him speedily. This done, looking up into heaven, he fell to discourse of divers things, with gestures that showed him to be in exceeding great choler, which made him one while shake his head hither and thither ; and, by and by, with, I wot not what fury, to turn his face...
Pagina 178 - ... of February, accompanied only with two of the King's ships, but so well furnished with gentlemen (of whose number I myself was one) and with old soldiers, that he had means to achieve some notable thing and worthy of eternal memory.
Pagina 191 - ... after, was delivered unto them. But, seeing he would not give them licence to depart, they resolved, with themselves, to steal away by night, and to get a little boat which we had, and, by the help of the tide, to sail home toward their dwellings, and by this means to save themselves, which thing they failed not to do, and put their 1562.
Pagina 346 - I wot well that all that he did was upon a good intent; yet in mine opinion he should have had more regard unto his charge than to the devices of his own brain, which sometimes he printed in his head so deeply that it was very hard to put them out.
Pagina 229 - ... generations, and that he had lived two hundred and fifty years. Opposite sat a still more ancient veteran, the father of the first, shrunken to a mere anatomy, and "seeming to be rather a dead carkeis than a living body.