 | 1862 - 448 pages
...— the name appears, with precisely our spelling, in the following passage : Sergus, ch. 157. — "Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there...near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which .was peopled with black women, without any men among them, because they were accustomed to live after the fashion... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1869 - 442 pages
...the Indies" [that is, to the north of Mexico, as Diaz would ON THE COAST. understand the expression] "there is an island called California, very near to the terrestrial paradise." Lower California was long taken to be an island, and it was an idea of Columbus, as well as of Las... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1878 - 740 pages
...discovery of that part of the mainland which has yielded to the world its untold millions of gold. " Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise,1 and it was peopled by black women without any man among... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1884 - 768 pages
...there is an island called California, very near to the terrestrial paradise, which was peopled with black women, without any men among them, because they were accustomed to live after the fashion of Amazons." Therefore the new island was appropriately named California, because of its position,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1885 - 310 pages
...been lost on the next day, but that where the danger came, there the safety came also. Know, then, that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise,* and it was peopled by black women, without * This was... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1886 - 368 pages
...represented as an island rich with gold and diamonds and pearls. The language of the writer is this : — " Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise ; and it was peopled by black women, without any man... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1886 - 662 pages
...represented as an island rich with gold and diamonds and pearls. The language of the writer is this : — " Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise ; and it was peopled by black women, without any man... | |
 | 1889 - 706 pages
...Esplandian was attached. Hittell (Vol i, p. 51) transcribes a passage from the romance, which reads thus " Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is...near to the terrestrial paradise, which was peopled with black women without any man amongst them, because they were accustomed to live after the fashion... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1890 - 778 pages
...attention to a popular romance, some twentyfive years old, in which the following passage occurred : "Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, verv near to the terres•/ trial paradise, which was peopled with black women, without any men among... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1893 - 416 pages
...entitled The Deeds of Esplandian. In this romance this bit of description is met with : Know, then, that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise, and it was peopled by black women, without any men among... | |
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Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise; and it was peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they lived in the fashion of Amazons. 
