Following the Conquistadores ...: Along the Andes and down the Amazon ... 1911. F3423.Z2D. Appleton, 1911 |
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... light- ning , tempestuous seas , formidable gales - that they had to contend . They had had experience of all these on the Atlantic . It was rather with unknown dangers which were in many respects greater than any which they had ever en ...
... light- ning , tempestuous seas , formidable gales - that they had to contend . They had had experience of all these on the Atlantic . It was rather with unknown dangers which were in many respects greater than any which they had ever en ...
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... lights as of vaporized ruby and topaz and sapphire . Rarely , indeed , in our northern zones , outside the magic color displays of the Aurora Borealis , does one witness such splendor of rose and scarlet , such glowing of nacre and ...
... lights as of vaporized ruby and topaz and sapphire . Rarely , indeed , in our northern zones , outside the magic color displays of the Aurora Borealis , does one witness such splendor of rose and scarlet , such glowing of nacre and ...
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... light of dawn , what caresses of color in the sunset's crimson glow ! During the daytime what delicate color dances on the emerald waves , and what splendor of translucent azure in the firma- ment above ! And at night , what sublime ...
... light of dawn , what caresses of color in the sunset's crimson glow ! During the daytime what delicate color dances on the emerald waves , and what splendor of translucent azure in the firma- ment above ! And at night , what sublime ...
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... light and color in the curling wavelets and admiring the inexpressible beauty and luminosity of every swell and ripple , have I not recalled that exquisite picture of Æschylus - the many - twinkling smiles of Ocean “ πόντιων δὲ κυμάτων ...
... light and color in the curling wavelets and admiring the inexpressible beauty and luminosity of every swell and ripple , have I not recalled that exquisite picture of Æschylus - the many - twinkling smiles of Ocean “ πόντιων δὲ κυμάτων ...
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... light flashed from its bosom , to the surprise of every beholder . It came from the lighthouse stationed on the island , and gave to La Amortajada , from where we were viewing it , the appearance of holding in her hands some object of ...
... light flashed from its bosom , to the surprise of every beholder . It came from the lighthouse stationed on the island , and gave to La Amortajada , from where we were viewing it , the appearance of holding in her hands some object of ...
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able Amazon Andean Arequipa arrival Atahualpa Aymara beautiful Bolivia Cajamarca called canal capital Casa centuries Chachapoyas Chimu chroniclers Cieza civilization clouds coast coca color conquest conquistadores continent Cordilleras Cuzco declares delightful distance Ecuador explorers famous feet forest Garcilaso gold Guayaquil Huallaga Huayna Capac Humboldt hundred immense Inca empire Incas Indians inhabitants interesting island Isthmus journey kind Lake Titicaca land leaving Lima llamas Madrid Manco Capac Marañon marvelous miles missionaries montaña mountain Moyobamba mules nearly never night ocean Orellana Orinoco Pacific Padre Panama Pará Peru Peruvian Pizarro plateau Quichua Quito race railroad regarding region republic Riobamba river road ruins seemed South America Spaniards Spanish species splendid steamer summit Tambo thousand Tiahuanaco tion to-day town traveler treasure trees tribes tropics Trujillo valley volcano voyage wonderful writes Yurimaguas
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Seite 357 - MAWE'S (HL) Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, crossing the Andes in the Northern Provinces of Peru, and descending the great River Maranon.
Seite 97 - ... Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
Seite 40 - The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
Seite 110 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
Seite 307 - She has now him in hers, since, being unaware that the letter is not in his possession, he will proceed with his exactions as if it was. Thus will he inevitably commit himself, at once, to his political destruction. His downfall, too, will not be more precipitate than awkward. It is all very well to talk about the facilis descensus Averni; but in all kinds of climbing, as Catalani said of singing, it is far more easy to get up than to come down.
Seite 523 - We deem the independence and equal rights of the smallest and weakest member of the family of nations entitled to as much respect as those of the greatest empire, and we deem the observance of that respect the chief guaranty of the weak against the oppression of the strong.
Seite 444 - This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, and a proverb of reproach: we fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour: how is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!
Seite 33 - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Seite 523 - In many parts of South America there has been much misunderstanding of the attitude and purposes of the United States toward the other American Republics. An idea had become prevalent that our assertion of the Monroe Doctrine implied, or carried with it, an assumption of superiority, and of a right to exercise some kind of protectorate over the countries to whose territory that doctrine applies. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Seite 390 - ... necessity, and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties; neither apprehending want himself, nor vexed with the endless complaints of his wife?