The History of the United States of America, Volume 1Harper, 1849 - United States |
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... four men only of the whole company succeeded at last , after long wanderings , in reaching Mexico by land . While the Spaniards were engrossed with the conquest The I. of Peru , Jaques Cartier , a mariner 44 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES ...
... four men only of the whole company succeeded at last , after long wanderings , in reaching Mexico by land . While the Spaniards were engrossed with the conquest The I. of Peru , Jaques Cartier , a mariner 44 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES ...
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... four great islands of the West Indies , in consequence of the extermination of the native inhabitants were now in a declining state ; but the conquered empires of Mex- ico and Peru , of Guatemala , New Granada , and Chili , and the vast ...
... four great islands of the West Indies , in consequence of the extermination of the native inhabitants were now in a declining state ; but the conquered empires of Mex- ico and Peru , of Guatemala , New Granada , and Chili , and the vast ...
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... four children . As a general rule , the Indians were not long lived . Many perished prematurely by consump- tion and fevers , to which the sudden vicissitudes of the climate and their habits of life particularly exposed them . Toothache ...
... four children . As a general rule , the Indians were not long lived . Many perished prematurely by consump- tion and fevers , to which the sudden vicissitudes of the climate and their habits of life particularly exposed them . Toothache ...
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... four , or five thousand warriors , and the warriors were usually reckoned a fourth part of the whole number . From the more accurate knowledge we possess of existing tribes , compared with the facts stated by the earlier observers , we ...
... four , or five thousand warriors , and the warriors were usually reckoned a fourth part of the whole number . From the more accurate knowledge we possess of existing tribes , compared with the facts stated by the earlier observers , we ...
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... four hundred acres in extent . Other classes of monuments , often con- nected with those just mentioned , but often separate , and increasing in number toward the south , are conical and pyramidal structures , from a few yards to a ...
... four hundred acres in extent . Other classes of monuments , often con- nected with those just mentioned , but often separate , and increasing in number toward the south , are conical and pyramidal structures , from a few yards to a ...
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