The Conquest of Florida, by Hernando de SotoG.P. Putnam, 1857 - 457 pagine |
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Adelantado Alvar Nuñez Anilco Apalachee arms army arrived arrows attack band bank battle brigantines brought cacique called camp canoes captain caravel cavaliers CHAPTER chieftain Cofachiqui command companions comrades conquest cross-bow crossed Cuba dispatched distance embarked encamped enemy Espiritu Santo expedition fighting fled Florida foot forest four friendship Garcilaso Gomez Arias Gonzalo Silvestre governor Guachoya hand Havana Hernan Ponce Hernando de Soto Herrera Hirrihigua horse horsemen hundred Inca Indians journey Juan de Añasco Juan Lopez Juan Ortiz kind la Vega lance land leagues length Luis de Moscoso maize Mauvila morass Mucozo narrator natives night Ocali ordered Pamphilo de Narvaez passed Patofa perilous Peru Portuguese Narrative Portuguese Relation prisoners province received remained replied river saddle sail sallied savages sent shore soldiers Spaniards Spanish spirit sword took traversed trees troopers troops Tuscaloosa Vasco Porcallo Vega village Vitachuco warriors woods wounded
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Pagina 24 - It was poetry put in action ; it was the knight-errantry of the old world carried into the depths of the American wilderness...
Pagina 363 - As there was no stone in the neighborhood wherewith to sink it, they cut down an evergreen oak, and made an excavation in one side, of the size of a man. On the following night, with all the silence possible, they disinterred the body, and placed it in the trunk of the oak, nailing planks over the aperture. The rustic coffin was then conveyed to the...
Pagina ix - It agrees with the narrative of the Inca, as to the leading facts which form the framework of the story : it differs from it occasionally, as to the plans and views of Hernando de Soto ; but here the Inca is most to be depended upon — the Spanish cavalier from whom he derived his principal information being more likely to be admitted to the intimate councils of his commander than one of a different nation, and being free from the tinge of national jealousy which may have influenced the statements...
Pagina 95 - Others of your accursed race," said he, " have, in years past, disturbed our peaceful shores. They have taught me what you are. What is your employment ? To wander about like vagabonds from land to land ; to rob the poor ; to betray the confiding ; to murder the defenceless in cold blood. No ! with such a people I want neither peace nor friendship.
Pagina 361 - They feared to bury him publicly, and with becoming ceremonials, lest the Indians should discover the place of his interment, and should outrage and insult his remains, as they had done those of other Spaniards ; tearing them from their graves, dismembering them, and hanging them piecemeal from the trees. If they had shown such indignities to the bodies of the common soldiers, how much greater would they inflict upon that of their governor and commander ! Besides, De Soto had impressed them with...
Pagina 42 - Indeed, some young men of quality had spent a great part of their property in this manner. This brilliant armament embarked at San Lucar de Barrameda, on the sixth of April, 1538, in . seven large and three small vessels. The governor, his wife, together with all his family and retinue, embarked in the largest vessel, called the San Christoval, of eight hundred tons burden.
Pagina 362 - For these reasons they buried him in the dead of night, with sentinels posted to keep the natives at a distance, that the sad ceremony might be safe from the observation of their spies. The place chosen for his sepulture was one of many pits, broad and deep, in a plain, near the village, from whence the Indians had taken earth for their buildings.
Pagina 204 - I promise, by the favour of the strangers, to revenge the insults, the deaths, and the losses, our fathers have sustained from the natives of Cofachiqui. My vengeance shall be such, that the memory of past evils shall be wiped away for ever. My daring to reappear in your presence, will be a token that your commands have been executed. For, should the fates deny my hopes, never again shall you behold me, never again shall the sun shine upon me ! If the enemy deny me death, my own hand will find the...
Pagina 226 - Spaniards could not sufficiently admire their beauty, and they passed them from hand to hand, examining and praising their workmanship and extolling the skill of their owner. The youthful Indian continued thoughtfully emptying his quiver, until, almost at the last, he drew forth an arrow with a point of flint, long and sharp, and shaped like a dagger ; then, casting around a glance, and seeing the Spaniards engaged in admiring his darts, he suddenly plunged the weapon in his throat and fell dead...
Pagina 97 - The heads they carried as trophies to their Cacique, according to his orders. Thus fourteen Spaniards perished, and a greater number were wounded. The savages in these skirmishes ran comparatively but little risk, as the Spanish encampment was skirted by a thicket, whither the Indians, after making an assault, could easily escape. In this manner the Spaniards saw effectually verified the threats which had been shouted forth by the Indians who had hung upon the rear during the march, " Keep on, robbers...