 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Cuzco (Peru) - 1885 - 272 pages
...solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage....rich that the roofs of their temples were covered deserted him; but, after a long delay, he came to the conclusion that Orellana had been unable to ascend... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Cuzco (Peru) - 1885 - 278 pages
...solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage....pretended to have discovered nations so rich that the roof« of their temples were covered 224 THE LAND OF THE INCAS. deserted him ; but, after a long delay,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 768 pages
...solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage....over a considerable tract of the fertile plains which he had visited. Extravagant as those tales were, they gave rise to an opinion, that a region abounding... | |
 | Wilson Lloyd Bevan - History - 1913 - 520 pages
...achievements, demonstrated the creative power of his imagination as well as his heroism. He told of seeing nations so rich that the roofs of their temples were covered with plates of gold, and also related how he had passed through a republic controlled by women, who by the force of their arms... | |
 | Daniel P. Watkins - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 246 pages
...magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him [Orellana] to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage....over a considerable tract of the fertile plains which he had visited. Extravagant as those tales were, they gave rise to an opinion, that a region abounding... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 1166 pages
...his own merits, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary amount of the marvellous with the narrative of his voyage. He pretended to have...discovered nations so rich that the roofs of their temples v • iVv-y :M: vagant as those tales were, they gave rise to an opinion that a region abounding with... | |
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Cubagua; from thence he sailed to Spain. The vanity natural to travellers who visit regions unknown to the rest of mankind, and the art of an adventurer, solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion... 
