Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin blazing with burnished gold. It was borne on the shoulders of nobles, and over it a canopy of gaudy featherwork, powdered with jewels... Columbian Historical Novels - Page 161by John Roy Musick - 1895Full view - About this book
| William Hickling Prescott - 1843 - 514 pages
...Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wands,9 they saw the royal palanquin blazing with burnished gold. It...same rank. They were bare-footed, and walked with a slow, measured pace, and with eyes 7 Gonzalo de las Casas, Defen- of San Antonio. (Rel. Seg. de sa,... | |
| 1844 - 596 pages
...Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin, blazing with burnished gold....the same rank. They were barefooted, and walked with a slow, measured pace, and with eyes bent down on the ground. When the train had come within a convenient... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1844 - 326 pages
...the city from the Hospital of San Antonio. (Rel. Seg. de Cortes, p. 79, nota.) This burnished gold.9 It was borne on the shoulders of nobles, and over...same rank. They were bare-footed, and walked with a slow, measured pace, and with eyes bent on the ground. When the train had come within a convenient... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 248 pages
...Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin blazing with burnished gold. It...shoulders of nobles, and over it a canopy of gaudy feather work, powdered with jewels, and fringed with silver, was supported by four attendants of the... | |
| William Russell, John Goldsbury - 1845 - 300 pages
...Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wands, they saw th,e royal palanquin, blazing with burnished gold....the same rank. They were barefooted, and walked with a slow, measured pace, and with eyes bent on the ground. When the train had come within a convenient... | |
| V. V. Vide - 1846 - 268 pages
...obsequious attendance around. It was preceded by three officers, bearing golden wands. Over it was a canopy of gaudy feather-work, powdered with- jewels, and fringed with silver, resting on four richly carved and inlaid pillars, and supported by four nobles of the same rank with... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 864 pages
...nobles, and over it a canopy of gandy featherwork, powdered with jewels, and fringed with silver, and was supported by four attendants of the same rank. They were barefooted, and walked with a slow measured pace, and with eyes bent on the ground. When the train had come within a convenient... | |
| John Frost - 1854 - 738 pages
...three officers of state bearing golden wands, the Spaniards saw the royal palan quin of Montezuma, blazing with burnished gold. It was borne on the shoulders...featherwork, powdered with jewels, and fringed with silver, and was supported 58 THE CONQUEST OP MEXICO. by four attendants of the same rank. They were barefooted,... | |
| William O. Blake - 1856 - 1122 pages
...by three officers of state bearing golden wands, the Spaniards saw the royal palanquin of Montezuma, blazing with burnished gold. It was borne on the shoulders...featherwork, powdered with jewels, and fringed with silver, and was supported b/ four attendants of the same rank. They were barefooted, and walked with a slow... | |
| W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 pages
...nobles, and over it a canopy of gaudy featherwork, powdered with jewels, and fringed with silver, and was supported by four attendants of the same rank. They were barefooted, and walked with a slow measured pace, and with eyes bent on the ground. When the train had come within a convenient... | |
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