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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 461 - On the return of the ships on the next voyage, they certainly will be able to carry back such a quantity of gold as will fill with amazement all who hear of it.
Página 444 - In Egypt, in the thirteenth century, the habit of eating human flesh pervaded all classes of society ; extraordinary snares were spread for physicians in particular. They were called to attend persons, who pretended to be sick, but who were only hungry ; and it was not in order to be consulted, but devoured. An historian of great veracity, Abd-Allatif, has related, how a practice, which at first inspired dread and horror, soon occasioned not the slightest surprise...
Página 144 - Barb, 5 inchcs. can be got most easily attached, and by this the shark is towed on shore; several boats are requisite for towing. The Mhor is often 40, sometimes 60 feet in length; the mouth is occasionally 4 feet wide. All other varieties of shark are caught in nets, in somewhat like the way in which herrings are caught at home. The net is made of strong English whip-cord; the meshes about six inches; they are generally 6 feet wide, and from 600 to 800 fathoms, or from threequarters to nearly a...
Página 3 - A new genus and several new species of landshells collected in central Mexico by Doctor Edward Palmer.
Página 444 - Europe, were to reproach us with the habit of feeding on the flesh of animals. In the eyes of the Indian of the Guaisia, the Cheruvichahena was a being entirely different from himself; and one whom he thought it was no more unjust to kill than the jaguars of the forest.
Página 43 - The Silver fish, or Grande Ecaille, is common everywhere on the Gulf coast. It is an immense and active fish, preying eagerly upon schools of young fry, or any small fish that it is able to receive into its mouth, and in pursuit of which it ascends fresh-water rivers quite a long distance.
Página 455 - Ignorant as we were of the facts, it was' impossible to come to a definite conclusion. There were certainly many proofs of an invasion by a hostile people, so that the Admiral was at a loss what to do ; he with many others thought...
Página 430 - THE LETTER OF DR. DIEGO ALVAREZ CHANCA, DATED 1494, RELATING TO THE SECOND VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS TO AMERICA (BEING THE FIRST WRITTEN DOCUMENT ON THE NATURAL HISTORY, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND ETHNOLOGY OF AMERICA...
Página 444 - These captive women told us, that the Caribbee men use them with such cruelty as would scarcely be believed ; and that they eat the children, which they bear to them, only bringing up those, which they have by their native wives. Such of their male enemies as they can take away alive, they bring here to their homes to make a feast of them, and those, who are killed in battle, they eat up after the fighting is over. They claim...