 | Christopher Columbus - America - 1892 - 178 pages
...enough to hold one man. They are propelled with a paddle like a baker's shovel, and go at a marvelous rate. If the canoe capsizes they all promptly begin...the longing to possess our things, and not having any thing to give in return, they take what they can get, and presently swim away. Still, they give... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - North America - 1903 - 658 pages
...in the nose, and by signs I was able to make out that to the S., or going from the island to the S., there was a king who had great cups full, and who...broken bits of crockery and glass. I saw one give sixteen skeins of cotton for three ceotis of Portugal, equal to one blanca of Spain, the skeins being... | |
 | Alfred Brittain, George Edward Reed - History - 1903 - 696 pages
...in the nose, and by signs I was able to make out that to the S., or going from the island to the S., there was a king who had great cups full, and who...broken bits of crockery and glass. I saw one give sixteen skeins of cotton for three ceotis of Portugal, equal to one blanca of Spain, the skeins being... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - America - 1903 - 698 pages
...cups full, and who possessed a great quantity. I tried to get them to go there, but afterwards 109 I saw that they had no inclination. I resolved to...broken bits of crockery and glass. I saw one give sixteen skeins of cotton for three ceotis of Portugal, equal to one hlanca of Spain, the skeins being... | |
 | Alfred Brittain, George Edward Reed - History - 1903 - 638 pages
...cups full, and who possessed a great quantity. I tried to get them to go there, but afterwards I09 I saw that they had no inclination. I resolved to...broken bits of crockery and glass. I saw one give sixteen skeins of cotton for three ceotis of Portugal, equal to one blanca of Spain, the skeins being... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Anthologies - 1907 - 502 pages
...DISCOVERIES 21 out that to the south, or going from the island to the south, there was a king \vho had great cups full, and who possessed a great quantity....return, they take what they can get, and presently swirn away. Still, they give away all they have got, for whatever may be given to them, down to broken... | |
 | William Carlos Williams - America - 1925 - 262 pages
...worked, propelled with a paddle like a baker's shovel, and go at a marvelous speed. Bright green trees, the whole land so green that it is a pleasure to look on it. Gardens of the most beautiful trees I ever saw. Later I came upon a man alone in a canoe going from... | |
 | Bryce Conrad - America - 1990 - 196 pages
...in his language. The entries in his journal burst into flower with fierce heat: Bright green trees, the whole land so green that it is a pleasure to look on it. Gardens of the most beautiful trees I ever saw. . . . I saw many trees very unlike those of our country.... | |
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I saw that they had no inclination. I resolved to wait until to-morrow in the afternoon and then to depart, shaping a course to the SW, for, according to what many of them told me, there was land to the S., to the SW, and NW, and that the natives from... 