The Spanish Conquest in America: And Its Relation to the History of Slavery and to the Government of Colonies, Volumen 3Harper & Brothers, 1857 |
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... Expedition against Guatemala prepared ..... CHAPTER II . 219 Conquest of Guatemala by Pedro de Alvarado . - Founding of the Town of Guatemala .... 243 CHAPTER III . Establishment of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in New Spain ...
... Expedition against Guatemala prepared ..... CHAPTER II . 219 Conquest of Guatemala by Pedro de Alvarado . - Founding of the Town of Guatemala .... 243 CHAPTER III . Establishment of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in New Spain ...
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... expedition Cortez dispatched messengers to Spain to urge his own claims and those of the Conquistadores ; who also , on their own account , sent a memorial to the Emperor . These messengers did not go empty - handed . They were ...
... expedition Cortez dispatched messengers to Spain to urge his own claims and those of the Conquistadores ; who also , on their own account , sent a memorial to the Emperor . These messengers did not go empty - handed . They were ...
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... expedition . started on the 11th of January , 1524. Cristoval de Olid proved unfaithful to his trust , and gave undenia- ble signs of setting up an independent government for himself . Cortez was particularly indignant at the con- duct ...
... expedition . started on the 11th of January , 1524. Cristoval de Olid proved unfaithful to his trust , and gave undenia- ble signs of setting up an independent government for himself . Cortez was particularly indignant at the con- duct ...
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... expedition . It is probable that their remonstrance did not meet the considerations which induced Cortez to undertake this expedition . Almost any other man in the world , if employed as Cortez had been since the conquest of Mexico ...
... expedition . It is probable that their remonstrance did not meet the considerations which induced Cortez to undertake this expedition . Almost any other man in the world , if employed as Cortez had been since the conquest of Mexico ...
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... expedition , * and made his preparations for quitting Mexico in the following He appointed the treasurer , Alonso de ... expedition was not necessarily to proceed to Honduras , but that , if Cortez received favorable intelli- gence about ...
... expedition , * and made his preparations for quitting Mexico in the following He appointed the treasurer , Alonso de ... expedition was not necessarily to proceed to Honduras , but that , if Cortez received favorable intelli- gence about ...
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afterward Almagro año arrived Atahuallpa Audiencia auditors avia Betanzos bien bishop cacique captain Casas Cassamarca Charles the Fifth Chiapa Chiapa y Guatemala chief Ciudad Coleccion de Muñoz command conquered conquerors conquest Cortez cosas court Cusco despues dians dias DIAZ dicho Dios Domingo de Betanzos Dominican EMPERADOR Emperor encomiendas eran esclavos Españoles esto expedition Father favor Fernando Franciscan Francisco fray fué governor HERRERA Hispaniola Hist History of Guatemala Honduras Inca Indians Indies Indios inhabitants island Juan Junta king land las Indias letter Magestad majesty Marcos de Aguilar Mexican Mexico monastery monks natives negroes Nicaragua Padre Panamá Pedrarias Pedro de Alvarado persons Peru Peruvian Pizarro Ponce de Leon proceeded province Provincia pueblos pues Quiché REMESAL repartimiento residencia royal Santiago says Señor sent sino slaves Soconusco Spain Spaniards Spanish thing tiempo tienen tierra tion town Tututepec Tuzulutlan Utatlan
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Página 101 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
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Página 58 - Diverging from the base, and working our way through the thick woods, we came upon a square stone column, about fourteen feet high and three feet on each side, sculptured in very bold relief, and on all four of the sides, from the base to the top. The front was the figure of a man curiously and richly dressed, and the face, evidently a portrait, solemn, stern, and well fitted to excite terror. The back was of a different design, unlike anything we had ever seen before, and the sides were covered...
Página 320 - In the evening the merchants asked for a ' teplanastl,' an instrument of music which we may suppose to have been the same as the Mexican ' teponaztli' or drum. They then produced some timbrels and bells which they had brought with them, and began to sing the verses which they had learned by heart, accompanying themselves on the musical instruments. The effect produced was very great. The sudden change of character, not often made, from a merchant to a priest, at once arrested the attention of the...
Página 58 - Egyptians; one displaced from its pedestal by enormous roots; another locked in the close embrace of branches of trees, and almost lifted out of the earth; another hurled to the ground, and bound down by huge vines and creepers; and one standing, with its altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacred thing; in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people.
Página 323 - ... cacique's own town, the chief himself came out to meet Father Luis, and, bending before him, cast down his eyes, showing him the same mark of reverence that he would have shown to the priests of that country. More substantial and abiding honours soon followed. At the cacique's...
Página 58 - ... with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship equal to the finest monuments of the Egyptians; one displaced from its pedestal by enormous roots; another locked in the close embrace of branches of trees, and almost lifted out of the earth; another hurled to the ground, and bound down by huge vines and creepers; and one standing, with its altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around...
Página 408 - Many years have passed over some of their heads in the search of not so many leagues : yea, more than one or two have spent their labour, their wealth, and their lives, in search of a golden kingdom, without getting further notice of it than what they had at their first setting forth. All which notwithstanding, the third, fourth, and fifth undertakers have not been disheartened.
Página 337 - Juan de Villagutierre Soto-Mayor: Historia de la conquista de la provincia de El...
Página 65 - Plagues of New Spain, 1. The small-pox.' 2. The slaughter during the Conquest. 3. A great famine which took place immediately after the capture of the city. 4. The Indian and negro overseers.