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Identifier: americaencyclopa00newm (find matches)
Title: America: an encyclopaedia of its history and biography
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Newman, Stephen Morrell. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, Coburn & Cook publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Streets,dwellings, temples, gardens and bridgeswere all laid out and built with skill andbeauty. A palace built by Montezumasfather, became the shelter of the Span-iards. In the palace they discovered aroom which had been walled up, full oftreasures of every kind. Cortes resolvedupon the seizure of the emperor. He ac-complished his design by craft, securingthe monarch while on a visit to the garri-son, and henceforth Montezuma abode aprisoner in the Spanish quarters. Cortesalso, charging them with having mur-dered several Spaniards who fell intotheir hands, tried and executed the gover-nor of one of Montezumas provinces,together with several of his officers.They were burned wpon a pile of Mexi-can weapons in the great square of thepalace. 1519. Havana, Cuba, was foundedby the removal of the village of SanCristobal to the present site. 1519. Panama was founded by theremoval ot Santa Maria to the westside of the Isthmus. 1520. Jan. 12. Fernando Magal-haens, known as Magellan, arrived on
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123 1507-1522.) BALBOA the coast of Brazil with a fleet in whichhe had sailed from Spain in the attemptto reach the Spice Islands by a westerlycourse. He entered the La Plata, butsoon recognizing it as a river, he took thecoast again and sailed further south. Inhis voyage along the Brazilian coast hefound the natives using vegetable down,probably cotton, for several purposes. 1520. March 31. He discoveredPatagonia, and found shelter during thewinter in one of its harbors. He resumedhis search for a strait in the spring, whichcorresponds to autumn in the northernhemisphere. 1520. Montezuma was induced to ac-knowledge the authority of the kingdomof Spain, and confessed himself subject toit, before his nobles. He ordered hisofficers to collect tribute, and a largeamount of treasure was accordinglybrought to Cortes. The whole is reck-oned by Prescott, the historian, as amount-ing to $6,300,000. 1520. March. Pamphilo de Narvaezwas sent by Velasquez, governor of Cuba,with an expedition of e

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