Old Saint Augustine: A Story of Three CenturiesE.H. Reynolds, 1884 - 144 pagine |
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Old Saint Augustine: A Story of Three Centuries Charles Bingham Reynolds Visualizzazione completa - 1887 |
Old St. Augustine: A Story of Three Centuries Charles Bingham Reynolds Visualizzazione completa - 1886 |
Old Saint Augustine: A Story of Three Centuries Charles Bingham Reynolds Visualizzazione completa - 1888 |
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Adelantado American amid Anastatia Andrew Turnbull arms band bastions batteries Boucaniers British Brother brought cannon captain Caroline casemate chief Coacoochee coast colonies command coquina crews Dominique De Gourgues Drake dungeon endured enemy English sea-kings expedition feet fleet Florida followed Fort Caroline FORT MARION Franciscan French Frenchman friends fugitives garrison gate gathered Georgia Gourgues Governor guard harbor heretics Hispaniola Huguenot iards Indian inlet island Jacques Le Moyne Jean Ribault King King's land Laudonnière Liberty Boys Lutherans marched MARION Matanzas McGirth Mendoza Minorcans moat negro night North once Osceola Patriots Pedro Menendez d'Avilés pines plaza plundered prison ramparts River of Dolphins sailed San Augustin San Marco San Mateo San Palayo Satourioua savage savanna sea-kings Seloy Seminole Seminole war sent ships shore slaves Smyrna soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish story Thomas Browne took town treasure troops village walls
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Pagina 99 - It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the Most Serene and Most Potent Prince, George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Arch-Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c...
Pagina 131 - I urged him to throw cut his breath, and then try ; soon after, he came tumbling down the whole distance. For a few moments I thought him dead. I dragged him to some water close by, which restored him ; but his leg was so lame he was unable to walk. I took him upon my shoulder to a scrub, near the town.
Pagina 115 - The whites dealt unjustly by me. I came to them, when they deceived me. I loved the land I was upon ; my body is made of its sands. The Great Spirit gave me legs to walk over it ; eyes to see it ; hands to aid myself; a head with which I think. The sun, which shines warm and bright, brings forth our crops ; and the moon brings back the spirits of our warriors, our fathers, our wives and children. The white man comes ; he grows pale and sickly ; why can we not live in peace?
Pagina 128 - At this time a scalping party penetrated as far as the Euhah lands, where having surprised John Levit and two of his neighbours, they knocked out their brains with their tomahawks. They then seized Mrs. Borrows and one of her children, and carried them off with them. The child by the way, finding himself in barbarous hands, began to cry, upon which they put him to death. The distressed mother, being unable to refrain from tears while her child was murdered before her eyes, was given to understand,...
Pagina 23 - Bringing soldiers and supplies for a fort which the King of France has in this country, and for many others which he soon will have." " Are you Catholics or Lutherans ? " Many voices cried out together, " Lutherans, of the new religion.
Pagina 58 - When the day appeared, we found it built all of timber, the walles being none other but whole Mastes or bodies of trees set up right and close together in...
Pagina 92 - ... they found the said Thompson, like a traitor, had run away ; and the said Thomas Browne being requested in civil terms to come to Augusta, to try to clear himself of such accusations, daringly repeated that he was not, nor would be answerable to them or any other of them for his conduct, whereupon they politely escorted him into Augusta, where they presented him with a genteel and fashionable suit of tar and feathers...
Pagina 126 - DN PEDRO DE BROZAS Y GARAY. DON FERDINAND THE SIXTH, BEING KING OF SPAIN, AND THE FIELD MARSHAL, DON ALONZO FEENANDO HEREDA, BEING GOVERNOR AND CAPTAIN GENERAL OF THIS PLACE, ST.
Pagina 131 - I succeeded in getting my head through, for the sharp " stones took the skin off my breast and back. Putting my head " through first, I was obliged to go down head foremost until my " feet were through, fearing every moment the rope would break. " At last, safely on the ground, I awaited with anxiety the arrival " of my comrade. I had passed another rope through the hole, " which, in the event of discovery...
Pagina 130 - I could not reach when upon the shoulder of my companion ; but while standing upon his shoulder, i worked a knife into a crevice of the stonework, as far up as I could reach, and upon this I raised myself to the aperture, when I found, that with some reduction of person, I could get through. In order to reduce ourselves as much as possible, we took medicine five days. Under the pretest of being very sick, we were permitted to obtain the roots we required.