Ferdinand de Soto: The Discoverer of the MississippiDodd, Mead [1873], 1873 - 351 páginas A history of the expeditions and military conquests of Hernando de Soto in South America, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. |
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... seemed ashamed to meet the reproachful eye of his victim , as with an axe his head was cut off upon a block . All friendly relations with the Indians were speedily terminated . They were robbed of their gold , of their provisions , and ...
... seemed ashamed to meet the reproachful eye of his victim , as with an axe his head was cut off upon a block . All friendly relations with the Indians were speedily terminated . They were robbed of their gold , of their provisions , and ...
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... seemed to have attained the full maturity of his physical system , and had developed into a remarkably elegant young man . The family of Don Pedro had apparently remain . ed at the castle . His second daughter , Isabella , was a very ...
... seemed to have attained the full maturity of his physical system , and had developed into a remarkably elegant young man . The family of Don Pedro had apparently remain . ed at the castle . His second daughter , Isabella , was a very ...
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... seemed to render the destruction of the Spaniards certain . The natives stood in great dread of the horses . When they saw the dragoons , glittering in their steel armor , come clattering down upon the plain , their pursuit was ...
... seemed to render the destruction of the Spaniards certain . The natives stood in great dread of the horses . When they saw the dragoons , glittering in their steel armor , come clattering down upon the plain , their pursuit was ...
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... seemed absolutely insur- mountable . Humiliated as never before , the proud He Don Pedro was compelled to order a retreat . returned to Panama , where , as we have mentioned , he had removed his seat of government from Darien . Panama ...
... seemed absolutely insur- mountable . Humiliated as never before , the proud He Don Pedro was compelled to order a retreat . returned to Panama , where , as we have mentioned , he had removed his seat of government from Darien . Panama ...
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... seemed to esteem of little value . Eagerly they exchanged the precious metal for such trinkets as the explorers took with them . Upon this arduous expedition , which De Soto managed with consummate skill , he was absent eleven months ...
... seemed to esteem of little value . Eagerly they exchanged the precious metal for such trinkets as the explorers took with them . Upon this arduous expedition , which De Soto managed with consummate skill , he was absent eleven months ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
accompanied advance adventurers Añasco Anhayea approach armed armor arrows assailants Attahuallapa band banks battle beautiful brigantines Cacique called canoes Capaha captain captive Casquin cavaliers Chickasaw chief chieftain Chisca Codro colony command Coosa courier crossed Cuba Cuzco Darien death Don Pedro dragoons encampment entered enterprise Espinosa expedition fifty fled Florida foes forest Francisco Pizarro friendship gold governor hand Hernando Pizarro horsemen horses hostile hundred iards immediately Inca Indians inhabitants Isabella javelins king of Spain land large number miles military Mississippi natives Nicaragua night noble Panama passed Patofa peace perished Peru Peruvians Pizarro plain plunder princess province reached received region replied retreat returned river rushed sabres savages seemed seized sent shore slain soldiers soon Soto Soto's Spain Spaniards Spanish army Spanish camp spirit steel-clad sword thousand tion town treach troops Tumbez Tuscaloosa Ucita Uracca village Vitachuco war horses warriors whole army wounded
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Página 99 - Nobles and commoners, all were trampled down under the fierce charge of the cavalry, who dealt their blows right and left, without sparing; while their swords, flashing through the thick gloom, carried dismay into the hearts of the wretched natives, who now, for the first time, saw the horse and his rider in all their terrors. They made no resistance, — as, indeed, they had no weapons with which to make it. Every avenue to escape was closed, for the entrance to the square was choked...
Página 100 - ... rider in all their terrors. They made no resistance, as, indeed, they had no weapons with which to make it. Every avenue to escape was closed, for the entrance to the square was choked up with the dead bodies of men who had perished in vain efforts to fly; and such was the agony of the survivors under the terrible pressure of their assailants that a large body of Indians, by their convulsive struggles, burst through the wall of stone and dried clay which formed part of the boundary of the plaza!
Página 99 - ... and threw themselves into the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by the report of artillery and muskets, the echoes of which reverberated like thunder from the surrounding buildings, and blinded by the smoke which rolled in sulphurous volumes along the square, were seized with a panic.
Página iii - It was poetry put in action ; it was the knight-errantry of the old world carried into the depths of the American wilderness ; indeed, the personal adventures, the feats of individual prowess, the picturesque descriptions of steel-clad cavaliers, with lance and helm and prancing steed, glittering through the wildernesses of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and the prairies of the Far "West, would seem to us mere fictions of romance, did they not come to us recorded in matter of fact narratives of contemporaries,...
Página 99 - Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired from the fortress. Then, springing into the square, the Spanish captain and his followers shouted the old war-cry of
Página 99 - It was answered by the battle-cry of every Spaniard in the city, as, rushing from the avenues of the great halls in which they were concealed, they poured into the plaza, horse and foot, each in his own dark column, and threw themselves into the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by the report of artillery and muskets, the echoes of which reverberated like thunder from the surrounding...
Página 169 - ... for I have sworn to maintain an unsparing conflict while one white man remains in my borders ; not openly in the battle-field, though even thus we fear not to meet you, but by stratagem, ambush, and midnight surprisal.
Página 314 - willing to show these heathens, that he listeneth to them that call to him in truth, sent down, in the middle of the ensuing night, a plenteous rain, to the great joy of the Indians." After many strange adventures, the invaders came to a village called Utiangue, it is supposed on the Arkansas, where, on account of the abundance of fuel and provisions, they passed the winter in tolerable comfort By this time half of the command and nearly all the horses...
Página 342 - ... ever heard on the waters of the Mississippi. To conceal his death, his body was wrapped in a mantle, and, in the stillness of midnight, was silently sunk in the middle of the stream. The discoverer of the Mississippi slept beneath its waters. He had crossed a large part of the continent in search of gold, and found nothing so remarkable as his burialplace.
Página iii - Of all the enterprises undertaken in this spirit of daring adventure, none has surpassed for hardihood and variety of incident, that of the renowned Hernando de Soto and his band of cavaliers.