 | William Grimshaw - 1830 - 262 pages
...solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage....over a considerable tract of the fertile plains which he bad visited. Extravagant as those tales were, they gave rise to an opinion, that a region abounding... | |
 | William Grimshaw - 1830 - 258 pages
...solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him. to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage....were covered with plates of gold ; and described a repubh'c of women, so warlike and powerful, as to have extended their dominion over a considerable... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1833 - 294 pages
...associates whom he had left in the wilderness, returned to Spain, he gave a marvellous account of it. He pretended to have discovered nations so rich, that the roofs of their temples were covered with gold : and he described a republic of women, so warlike and powerful, that their dominion extended... | |
 | William Robertson - 1851 - 774 pages
...solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage....over a considerable tract of the fertile plains which he had visited. Extravagant as those tales were, they gave rise to an opinion, that a region abounding... | |
 | John Frost - 1853 - 786 pages
...who visit regions unknown to the rest of mankind, prompted him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage....with plates of gold ; and described a republic of Amazons so warlike and powerful, as to have extended their dominion over a considerable tract of the... | |
 | John Frost - 1854 - 775 pages
...who visit regions unknown to the rest of mankind, prompted him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage....covered with plates of gold; and described a republic of Amazons so warlike and powerful, as to have extended their dominion over a considerable tract of the... | |
 | Henry G. Dalton - 1855 - 552 pages
...adventurous bark into the ocean, and returned to Spain about the year 1545, where he pretended that he had discovered nations so rich, that the roofs of their temples were covered with plates of gold, and dwelt with enthusiasm on his wars with the female republics of the Amazon, and his long voyage, 1550... | |
 | George Hanneman Bennett - 1866 - 366 pages
...adventurous bark into the ocean, and returned to Spain about the year 1545, where he pretended that he had discovered nations so rich, that the roofs of their temples were covered with plates of gold, and dwelt with cnthusis.sm on his wars with the female republies of the Amazon, and his long voyage, 1550... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1869 - 442 pages
...merits, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary amount of the marvellous with the narrntive of his voyage. He pretended to have discovered nations so rich that the roofs of their temples F were covered with plates of gold, and described a republic of women so warlike and powerful as to... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1870 - 1154 pages
...prompting him to mingle an extraordinary amount of the marvellous with the narrative of his voyage. lie pretended to have discovered nations so rich that...over a considerable tract of the fertile plains which he had visited. Extravagant as those tales were, they gave rise to an opinion that a region abounding... | |
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Cubagua; from thence he sailed to Spain. The vanity natural to travellers who visit regions unknown to the rest of mankind, and the art of an adventurer, solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion... 
