History of the Pacific States of North America: Central America. 1882-87A.L. Bancroft, 1883 |
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Common terms and phrases
adelantado afterward alcalde Alvarado appointed Arévalo arrived audiencia Benzoni Bernal Diaz bishop buccaneers cabildo cacique canoes Captain captured Carta Casas cédula Chiapanecs church Chyapa Ciudad Real coast colonists Comayagua command conquest Cortés Costa Rica crown Dávila death despatched Diego Dominicans Drake ecclesiastics Ecles emperor English expedition fleet force Francisco Fray friars Gasca gold Gonzalo Gonzalo Pizarro governor Granada Guat Guatemala Gutierrez Hernando Herrera Hist Honduras hundred Indians Indies island Isthmus Itzas Juan Juarros king Lacandon land later leagues Marroquin Mexico natives Nicaragua Nombre de Dios oidores Oviedo Pacheco and Cárdenas Panamá Pedro Pedro de Alvarado Peru pesos pirates Pizarro president province Remesal river royal sailed Santiago says sent settlement settlers ships Soconusco soon Spain Spaniards Spanish Squier's MSS Tierra Firme tion town treasure Trujillo Vazquez vessels viceroy voyages
Popular passages
Page 629 - Britannic Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifications which His subjects shall have erected in the Bay of Honduras, and other places of the Territory of Spain in that part of the world...
Page 539 - That as yet all his company were not come together; but that when they were come up we would come and visit him at Panama, and bring our commissions on the muzzles of our guns, at which time he should read them as plain as the flame of gunpowder could make them.
Page 572 - ... how far the nation in general was concerned in the design, and entreating that he would take such measures as might effectually vindicate the undoubted rights and privileges of the company. This address was seconded by a petition from the company itself, praying, that his majesty would give some intimation to the senate of Hamburgh...
Page 599 - Colonies, and places whatsoever, being or situated in the West Indies, or in any part of America, which the said King of Great Britain and his Subjects do at present hold and possess, so...
Page 421 - ... in a short time, many men everywhere, some for wantonness, some for health sake, with insatiable desire and greediness, sucked in the stinking smoke thereof through an earthen pipe, which presently they blew out again at their nostrils : insomuch that tobacco-shops are now as ordinary in most towns, as tap-houses and taverns.
Page 440 - I should call to the people to look for the sacrament, then I might be but chid and rebuked for my carelessness, which, of the two, I thought would be more easily borne than the rigor of the Inquisition. Whereupon, not knowing what the people had seen, I turned myself unto them, and called them unto the altar, and told them plainly, that whilst I was in my memento prayers and meditations, a mouse had...
Page 739 - I fell to my intended course, and by degrees read over whatsoever printed or written discoveries and voyages I found extant either in the Greeke, Latine, Italian, Spanish, Portugall, French, or English languages, and in my publike lectures' was the first, that produced and shewed both the olde...
Page 235 - ... sickening. In the field, starving auxiliaries were fed on human flesh, captives being butchered for food ; children were killed and roasted ; nay, even where there was no want of provisions, men were slain merely for the feet and hands, which were esteemed delicacies by the anthropophagous races. Nor were the marital relations of the natives any more considered than if they had been by nature the brutes which the Spaniards made of them in practice. Households were rendered desolate, wives being...
Page 249 - ... of the Spanish crown. There were vast storehouses stored with flour, wine, oil, spices, and the merchandize of Spain; there were villas of cedar surrounded with beautiful gardens, where fair women enjoyed the cool evening breeze as they gazed seaward on the untroubled waters of the Pacific.1 . . . There the raw adventurer who at the opening of his career pressed forward with eager expectation into a dark uncertain future met the returned fortune-seeker elated with success or broken-spirited through...
Page 399 - If it might please your Majesty," reports the surveyor, "it were good that the city of Nombre de Dios be brought and builded in this harbor.