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Page 33 - This proved to be an island around which they sailed. Steering north they sailed four days, and again discovered land, which proved to be Greenland. They were on the southern coast near the new settlement. It is manifest that the first land Biarni saw was Cape Cod ;* the next was the northern part of...
Page 16 - This Indian Edda — if I may so call it — is founded on a tradition prevalent among the North American Indians, of a personage of miraculous birth, who was sent among them to clear their rivers, forests, and fishing-grounds, and to teach them the arts of peace.
Page 51 - ... shore. The boats were manned, and the admiral, clad in rich scarlet, and bearing the royal banner of Spain, and accompanied by his captains, each of whom bore a green banner inscribed with a cross, went ashore. As he set foot on the land, Columbus knelt reverently and kissed the ground, and then rising and drawing his sword, took possession of the island in the name of Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Spain. The island was one of the Bahama group, and was called by the natives Guanahani....
Page 6 - His colour was black, m order that the distinctive marks might the more clearly appear ; these were a square white spot on the forehead, the figure of an eagle on the back, a white crescent on the right side, the mark of a beetle on the tongue, and double hur on the tail.
Page 195 - God, in his mercy, says the Spanish chronicler, willing to show these heathens, that he listeneth unto those who call upon him in truth, sent down, in the middle of the ensuing night, a plenteous rain, to the great joy of the Indians...
Page 51 - Triana, a sailor of the Pinta, was the first who saw the new world; but the reward was afterward adjudged to Columbus, for having previously perceived the light. "When morning dawned a wooded island was seen about two leagues distant, with crowds of natives running along the beach. At sunrise, the boats being lowered, Columbus with the royal standard of Castile, and...
Page 90 - for the excellency thereof," said Marco Polo, " hath the name of the city of Heaven ; for in the world there is not the like, or a place in which are found so many pleasures, that a man would think he were in Paradise." Of all the provinces of the East, Mangi was the richest, as it was also the most accessible from the sea. But all the kingdoms, both of Mangi and Cathay, teemed with people, abounded in precious commodities of nature and of art, and their cities, villages, fortresses, and palaces...
Page 163 - Sharp, after a 100-mile trip through the evacuated territory, declared that never before in the history of the world had there been such a thorough destruction by either a vanquished or victorious army.
Page 34 - It was about the middle of autumn, and finding there wild grapes growing, they called the country Vinland. Leif and his people were much pleased with the pleasant climate and fruitful soil of the new country, and stayed there contentedly all winter.
Page 162 - The emperor, who heard him with a great deal of patience, replied, "lam very willing to be the friend of the king of Spain, but not his vassal / the pope must surely be a very extraordinary man, to give so liberally what does not belong to him. I shall not change my religion for another-, and if the Christians adore a God who died upon a cross, I worship the sun who never dies" He then asked Yincent where he had learned all that he had said of God and the creation.