Stories of the Three Americas: Their Discovery and SettlementA. Flanagan, 1891 - 201 頁 |
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第 36 頁 - What is this, Christians ? is it for such a little thing that you quarrel ?* If you have such a love of gold that, to obtain it, you disquiet and harass the peaceful nations of these lands, and, suffering such labors, banish yourselves from your own lands, I will show you a country where you may fulfill your desires.
第 172 頁 - My friend is an envoy of France, to discover new countries, and I am an ambassador from God to enlighten them with the truths of the Gospel.
第 1 頁 - neath the smoky rafter, He plows with his boat the roaring deep; The billows boil and the storm howls after — But the tempest is only a thing of laughter — The sea-king loves it better than sleep...
第 3 頁 - Here when the tide ebbed there were very narrow shoals. When the ship got aground there were shallows of great extent between the vessel and the receded sea. So great was the desire of the men to go on land that they were unwilling to stay on board until the returning tide floated the ship. They went ashore at a place where a river flowed out from a lake.
第 131 頁 - ... presence, the tobacco before he put it into his pipe, and the ashes after he had consumed it, and convinced her majesty that the deficiency proceeded from the evaporation. Elizabeth admitted that this conclusion was sound logic ; and when she paid the bet, merrily told him, " That she knew of many persons who had turned their gold into smoke, but he was the first who had turned smoke into...
第 173 頁 - From the time of leaving their guides, they descended the two rivers more than one hundred leagues, without discovering any other inhabitants of the forests, than birds and beasts. They were always on their guard, kindling a fire on the shore towards evening, to cook their food, and afterwards anchoring their canoes in the middle of the stream during the night. They proceeded thus for more than sixty leagues from the place where they entered the Mississippi, when, on the 25th of June, they perceived...
第 3 頁 - They then immediately returned to the ship. Now sailed they thence into the open sea with a north-east wind, and were two days at sea before they saw land, and they sailed thither and came to an island which lay to the eastward of the land, and went up there, and looked...