Hernando De SotoG. P. Putnam's sons, 1914 - 631 pages |
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Almagro Alonzo answered Apalachee Bay arms Atahuallpa behold beneath birds blood bosom boughs brave breast breath brow Chickasaw chief Chisca Choctaws clouds Codro comrades cried Cuzco Darien dark dawn dead death desert dreams earth eyes face fate fear feet fell fire flames forest forever Francisco Pizarro friends frightful glowed gold golden green hands hast hath heart heaven Hernando Hernando De Soto Huascar Huayna Capac hung Inca Indians Isabel Juan Ortiz king land lift Lulla Mississippi moon Moscoso never night once Pedrarias Peru Pizarro quivering rage reached realms reared river rose round rushed savage seek seemed shouts skies smile snows soon Soto Soto's sought soul Spain Spaniards Spanish stars steed stood storm stream sweet sword thee thine thou throng trees Tuscaloosa Ucita unto vicuñas wandered wigwam wild younker youth
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Page 598 - ... surprising noise, like that which is made by forcing a heavy plank with violence upon the ground, and may be heard at a great distance. But what is yet more surprising to a stranger, is the incredibly loud and terrifying roar which they are capable of making, especially in breeding time.
Page 597 - I ran my bark on shore at one of their landing-places, which was a sort of nick or little dock, from which ascended a sloping path or road up to the edge of the meadow, where their nests were; most of them were deserted, and the great thick whitish eggshells lay broken and scattered upon the ground round about them. "The...
Page 629 - Here the religions of the invaders and the natives came in contrast. The Spaniards were adored as children of the Sun, and the blind were brought into their presence, to be healed by the sons of light. " Pray only to God, who is in heaven, for whatsoever ye need...
Page 598 - The nests or hillocks are of the form of an obtuse cone, four feet high and four or five feet in diameter at their bases; they are constructed with mud, grass and herbage. At first they lay a floor of this kind of tempered mortar on the ground, upon which they deposit a layer of eggs, and upon this a stratum of mortar, seven or eight inches in thickness, and then another layer of eggs; and in this manner one stratum upon another, nearly to the top. I believe they commonly lay from one to two hundred...
Page 597 - ... boat, emerging upright on my lee quarter, with open jaws, and belching water and smoke that fell upon me like rain in a hurricane. I laid...
Page 597 - They stood fifteen or twenty yards distant from the water, on a high marsh, about fear feet perpendicular above the water. I knew them to be the nests of the crocodile, having had a description of them before; and now expected a furious and general attack, as I saw several large crocodiles swimming abreast of these buildings.
Page 623 - For the entire distance of twenty-eight miles every tree of any size had more or less nests, and many trees were filled with them.
Page 628 - Pacaha, the northernmost point which* Soto reached, near the Mississippi, he remained forty days. The spot cannot be identified ; but the accounts of the amusements of the Spaniards confirm the truth of the narrative of their ramblings.
Page 597 - I now employed my time to the very best advantage in paddling close along shore, but could not forbear looking now and then behind me, and presently perceived one of them coming up again. The water of the river hereabouts was shoal and very clear; the monster came up with the usual roar and menaces, and passed close by the side of my boat, when I could distinctly see a young brood of alligators, to the number of one hundred or more, following after her in a long train. They kept close together in...
Page 609 - But when the lake burst on our view there were the swans by hundreds, and white as rich cream, either dipping their black bills in the water, or stretching out one leg on its surface, or gently floating along. According to the Indian mode of hunting, we had divided, and approached the lagoon from different sides. The moment our vedette was seen, it seemed as if thousands of large, fat, and heavy swans were startled, and as they made away from him they drew towards the ambush of death ; for the trees...