The History of Yucatan: From Its Discovery to the Close of the Seventeenth CenturyJ. Murray, 1854 - 340 Seiten |
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Acalan Adelantado Alcalde Alonso Amezquita amongst arms arrived arrows Avendaño Bacalar baptized Bernal Diaz Bishop cacique called Campeachy Cán Canek canoes Captain Casas Cedula Champoton CHAP Chiapa chief Christian church coast Cogolludo command Cortes Cozumel Cristoval cross Delgado despatched dians Diego Velasquez Dolores Don Martin embassy expedition Father Commissary Francisco Francisco de Montejo Friars Fuensalida gave Governor of Yucatan Grijalva Guatemala Honduras idols Indians inhabitants island Itza Itzaex Itzalan journey Juan King Lacandones Lake of Itza land leagues letter Mazariegos Merida Mexico Mirones mission missionaries Montejo Mopan mountains natives Nohhaa Orbita pacification Paredes party Pedro Peten pirates President of Guatemala priests prisoners proceeded province provisions Puchutlas reached received river road Royal says sent shore Soberanis soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish Tabasco Tayasal tion Tipu took place town tribes troops Ursua Velasco vessels Villagutierre Villaquiran Zaclun Zucthoc
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Seite 69 - I knew that you had destined me to this fate, since I did not fall by my own hand when you entered my city of Tenochtitlan. Why do you slay me so unjustly ? God will demand it of you!
Seite 33 - Cortes ordered the caziques, with the principal men amongst them and the priests, into his presence, giving them to understand as well as he could, by means of our interpreter, that if they were desirous of becoming our brethren they must give up sacrificing to their idols, which were no gods, but evil beings, by which they were led into error and their souls sent to hell. He then presented them with the image of the Virgin Mary and a cross, which he desired them to put up instead. These would procure...
Seite 60 - Tantunites ! Receive your barbarous bearded guests from the East, who bring the signal of God who comes to us in mercy and pity. The time of our life is coming. You have 'nothing to fear from the world. Thou art the living God, who created us in mercy. The words of God are good : let us lift up His signal to see it and adore it : we must raise the Cross in opposition to the falsehood we now see. Before the first tree of the world now is a manifestation made to the world : this is the signal of a...
Seite 16 - ... and other jewels like lizards and three necklaces of hollow beads, and other articles of gold but not of much value, for they were not worth more than two hundred dollars. They also brought some cloaks and skirts, such as they wear, and said that we must accept these things in good part as they had no more gold to give us, but that further on, in the direction of the sunset, there was plenty of gold, and they said " Colua, Colua, Mejico, Mejico," but we did not know what this Colua or Mejico...
Seite 34 - ... they possessed ; as soon as we had left them, we should certainly all of us go to the bottom of the sea. Cortes, however, took very little heed of their threats, but commanded the idols to be pulled down, and broken to pieces ; which was accordingly done without any further ceremony. He then ordered a quantity of lime to be collected, which is here in abundance, and with the assistance of the Indian masons a very pretty altar was constructed, on which we placed the image of the holy Virgin.
Seite 14 - ... arrow when striking an enemy, viz., equal to the force of a locust flying in their faces ! They next land upon the shore of Terminus Bay, where they find no inhabitants, but temples built of stone and lime, " full of idols, made of wood and clay, with other figures [statues and paintings on the walls?] sometimes representing women, sometimes serpents, also horns of various kinds of wild animals."-)- In the same author's next paragraph we have the important admission that in the time of Grijalva...
Seite 276 - Toro, on the sixteenth day of the month of December in the year of the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ one thousand four hundred and seventy-six. I the king. I the queen. 93. ROYAL AUTHORITY TO THE MEN OF PALOS &c. TO SAIL TO MINA. SEVILLE. 4 MARCH 1478'.
Seite 14 - Julianillo and Melchorejo had misrepresented our commission to them. We staid four days in this place, and I shall never forget it on account of the immense sized locusts which we saw here. It was a stony spot on which the battle took place, and these creatures, while it lasted, kept continually flying in our faces ; and as at the same moment we were greeted by a shower of arrows from the enemy, we also mistook these locusts for arrows. But, as soon as we had discovered our mistake, we deceived ourselves...
Seite 314 - ... ella no podía nadie rescatar, que es feriar mercería por oro y plata. Fray Luis de Figueroa, fray Alonso de Santo Domingo y fray...
Seite 60 - Tancah, the signal of God will appear on the heights, and the Cross with which the world was enlightened will be manifested. There will be variance of men's will in future times, when this signal shall be brought.