The Life of ColumbusLibrary of Alexandria, 1. jan. 1890 - 262 sider |
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... Africa and America; it is, however, but just to acknowledge that the love of gold was by no means the only motive which urged them to such endeavours as theirs. To appreciate justly the intensity of their anxiety for the conversion of ...
... Africa and America; it is, however, but just to acknowledge that the love of gold was by no means the only motive which urged them to such endeavours as theirs. To appreciate justly the intensity of their anxiety for the conversion of ...
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... Africa; instead of that form of inverted cone which it presents, and which we now know there are physical reasons for its presenting, make a scimetar shape of it, by running a slightly curved line from Juba on the eastern side to Cape ...
... Africa; instead of that form of inverted cone which it presents, and which we now know there are physical reasons for its presenting, make a scimetar shape of it, by running a slightly curved line from Juba on the eastern side to Cape ...
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... of the world.] [Illustration: 1490 map of the world includes only Europe, Asia and the northern 1/4 of Africa. Excludes the Americas, Greenland, and Australia.] HENRY OF PORTUGAL; HIS MOTIVES FOR PRINCE DISCOVERY. This prince.
... of the world.] [Illustration: 1490 map of the world includes only Europe, Asia and the northern 1/4 of Africa. Excludes the Americas, Greenland, and Australia.] HENRY OF PORTUGAL; HIS MOTIVES FOR PRINCE DISCOVERY. This prince.
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... Africa; and the date of this town's capture may, perhaps, be taken as that from which Prince Henry began to meditate further and far greater conquests. His aims, however, were directed to a point long beyond the range of the mere ...
... Africa; and the date of this town's capture may, perhaps, be taken as that from which Prince Henry began to meditate further and far greater conquests. His aims, however, were directed to a point long beyond the range of the mere ...
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... AFRICAN COAST.] IMPORTANT EXPEDITION Prince Henry, then, having once the well-grounded idea in his mind that Africa did not end, according to the common belief, at Cape Nam [Portuguese for "not"], but that there was a region beyond that ...
... AFRICAN COAST.] IMPORTANT EXPEDITION Prince Henry, then, having once the well-grounded idea in his mind that Africa did not end, according to the common belief, at Cape Nam [Portuguese for "not"], but that there was a region beyond that ...
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Adelantado admiral admiral's Africa afterwards amongst Anacaona arrived Bartholomew Columbus Bemoin Bobadilla Bohechio brother brought cacique called Canary Islands cannibals canoes Caonabo Cape Cape Bojador capture caravel Casas Castile Catholic sovereigns Christians Christopher Columbus colonists colony Columbus's command continent cosmographers court crew despatch discovered discovery Domingo Don Bartholomew enterprise expedition faith favour Ferdinand and Isabella Fonseca Footnote Gil Eannes gold governor Granada Guacanagari Guarionex Gulf of Paria Henry of Portugal highnesses Hispaniola honour Indians Indies island Juan king labour land leagues look Maiobanex Margarite mariners Mendez mind monarchs Mosto mutineers natives occasion Ojeda Ovando Palos Perez persons Pinzon Porras Portugal Portuguese Prester John Prince Henry probably proceeded provisions Queen received repartimientos return to Spain river Roldan royal sail sailors says seen sent ships shore slavery slaves Spain Spaniards Spanish taken things thought took tribute vessels voyage Xaragua