 He was then young, and with much labour climbed to the naked summit of the sierra, from which, at a height of ten or twelve thousand feet, he looked over an immense plain extending to Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and saw at a great distance a large...  Lectures on Colonization and Colonies - עמוד 207מאת Herman Merivale - 1842תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1845 - 596 דפים
...feet, he looked over an immense plain extending to Yucatan, and the gulf of Mexico, and saw at a great distance a large city spread over a great space, and...white and glittering in the sun. The traditionary accounts are that no white man has ever reached this plain, — that the inhabitants speak the Maya... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1848 - 484 דפים
...feet, he looked over an immense plain, extending to-Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and saw, at a great distance, a large city spread over a great space,...white and glittering in the sun. The traditionary accounts of the Indians at Chajul, is that no white man has ever reached this city ; that the inhabitants... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1848 - 494 דפים
...feet, he looked over an immense plain, extending to Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and saw, at a great distance, a large city spread over a great space,...white and glittering in the sun. The traditionary accounts of the Indians at Chajul, is that no white man has ever reached this city ; that the inhabitants... | |
 | 1851 - 642 דפים
...Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and saw at a great distance a large city spread over 88 a great apace, and with turrets white and glittering in the sun....Maya language, are aware that a race of strangers has conquered the whole country around ; and, with that fact ever present in their minds, murder any... | |
 | 1851 - 638 דפים
...great space, and with turrete white and glittering in the sun. The traditionary account of the Indiana of Chajul is, that no white man has ever reached this...Maya language, are aware that a race of strangers has conquered the whole country around ; and, with that fact ever present in their minds, murder any... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1852 - 492 דפים
...feet, he looked over an immense plain, extending to Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and saw, at a great distance, a large city spread over a great space, and with turrets white nnd glittering in the sun. The traditionary accounts of the Indians at Chajul, is that no white man... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1852 - 490 דפים
...space, aud with turrets white and glittering in the sun. The traditionary accounts of the Indians at Chajul, is that no white man has ever reached this city ; that tho inhabitants speak tho Maya language ; are aware that a race of strangers have conquered the whole... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 652 דפים
...feet, he looked over an immense plain, extending to Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and saw at a great distance a large city spread over a great space, and...with turrets white and glittering in the sun." The Indians say that no white man has ever reached this city ; that the inhabitants speak the Maya language,... | |
 | John L. Stephens - 1854 - 638 דפים
...he looked over an immense plain extending toward Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and saw at a great distance a large city spread over a great space, and with turrets white aud glittering in the sun. The traditionary account of the Indians of Chajul is, that no white man... | |
 | John L. Stephens - 1871 - 592 דפים
...feet, he looked over an immense plain extending to Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and saw at a great distance a large city spread over a great space, and...inhabitants speak the Maya language, are aware that a rnce of strangers has conquered the whole country around, and murder an> white man who attempts to... | |
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