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Page 85
... pilot . Sailing on this course , and having gone about 280 leagues from Lima , on Thursday , 4th December , at the hour of vespers , a soldier named Alonzo Rodriguez Franco , and another named Manuel Alvarez , discovered land to the ...
... pilot . Sailing on this course , and having gone about 280 leagues from Lima , on Thursday , 4th December , at the hour of vespers , a soldier named Alonzo Rodriguez Franco , and another named Manuel Alvarez , discovered land to the ...
Page 445
... pilot , all wished this to be done ; and it appears that the pilot had foretold what would happen , but his proposals always seemed to the General to be an unpre- cedented course , and he gave his reasons for his decision . Our ships ...
... pilot , all wished this to be done ; and it appears that the pilot had foretold what would happen , but his proposals always seemed to the General to be an unpre- cedented course , and he gave his reasons for his decision . Our ships ...
Page 449
... Pilot called me and said that I might now claim albrisaras , 1 and bade me cry " Land ho ! " and he pointed it out to me , and we were close upon it . And as it seemed to me that there could be no better albaziras ( sic ) than to give ...
... Pilot called me and said that I might now claim albrisaras , 1 and bade me cry " Land ho ! " and he pointed it out to me , and we were close upon it . And as it seemed to me that there could be no better albaziras ( sic ) than to give ...
Contents
PAGE | vii |
The Gela Florida Islands | xxx |
The Islands of Savo Solomon and Sesarga Spain | lxxxvi |
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