The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, Volume 2J. Hatchard and Son, 1844 - Mexico |
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Page 102 - I certainly should not have believed this if I had not seen it with my own eyes three days after, when our division had likewise advanced up to this spot.
Page 149 - ... considerable about the riches of the new countries from our old chief pilot Alaminos, and how thickly populated the provinces were on the river Panuco ; and as several other sailors, who had accompanied us on those expeditions, confirmed what Alaminos had told him, he thought that it was to his advantage to request his majesty to grant him the permission to make further discoveries on the river Panuco, and to appoint him governor of all the lands he should discover. For this purpose he despatched...
Page 148 - ... country under Cordova and Grijalva, and of the twenty thousand pesos which came into the hands of Diego Velasquez, had spread through the whole of the West Indies," Garay having " received the information of a new expedition that was destined for New Spain, under Hernando Cortes, he [Francisco de Garay] was seized with a great desire likewise to discover some new countries, and certainly he had more wealth at his command than we to fit out a fleet for such a purpose. He had learned considerable...
Page 388 - ... a Russian steam-vessel of war was admitted to the quay of her Majesty's vessels to get coal, which was furnished her from the royal stores, while French men-of-war were allowed no such indulgence ; on departing she was saluted by the fortress witli twenty-one gwu ! This I witnessed with my own eyes, and heard with my own ears.
Page 34 - Indians than to the vultures, ravens, and other birds of prey, which, in the Italian wars, follow the armies to support themselves on the dead bodies remaining on the field where some bloody battle has been fought." — BERNAL DIAZ, cap. 144. Cortes went out to meet his special friends, the Tlascalans, and addressed the Spaniards in their presence somewhat in the following manner : — Enlarging upon the quality...
Page 323 - ... recently held the office of secretary to the queen; but as he dissented from the counsels which were transmitted to her from Paris, and had remonstrated with firmness against the measures to which she was instigated by attachment to her faith and family, he incurred the hatred and suspicion of the French to such a degree that he considered his life in danger from their resentment. Under such personal apprehension he fled from Leith to join the lords of the congregation at Stirling; for although...
Page 145 - ... greater success. Bernal Diaz, speaking of this expedition, says: " Among the more powerful tribes who submitted on this occasion, was that of the Tecuantepec (Tzapotecs), whose ambassadors brought with them a present in gold ; stating, at the same time, that they were at war with their neighbors, the Tutepecs, who had commenced hostilities with them because they had submitted to the Spanish crown. This tribe inhabited the coast on the South Sea, they added, and possessed great quantities of gold,...
Page 135 - The King of France sent word to our great Emperor," says Bernal Diaz, describing the capture of some Spanish treasure ships by a French pirate, " that as he and the King of Portugal had divided the earth between themselves, without giving him a share of it, he should like them to show him our father Adam's will, in order to know if he had made them his sole heirs.
Page 244 - Our distress was so great, that even the performers on the sackbut, clarion, and dulcimer, who were constantly to have amused us with their instruments, the only hard work they had to do, fell ill for want of food, and so an end was put to their music. There was only one of them who managed to force out a tune now and then, but we all grew so sick of his blowing and puffing that we told him it sounded in our ears like the mingled howls of foxes and wolves, and that a handful of maise to stay the...
Page 135 - ... our emperor. The king of France observed on this occasion, that the wealth which we supplied from New Spain was alone sufficient to enable our sovereign to wage war against him, although Peru was not then discovered. It was also reported that the king of France sent a message to our emperor, saying, That as he and the king of Portugal had divided the world between them, he desired to see the will of our father Adam, to know if he had made them exclusively his heirs. In his next expedition, Florin...