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Golfo de México
Before we quit the subject of the western waters, we will take a view of their principal connections with the Atlantic. These are four, the Hudson’s river, the Potomac, St. Lawrence, and Mississippi. Down the last will pass all the heavy commodities.…
Etiquetas: Comercio, Geografía, Navegación, Peligros
Guatemala
Continuing our march, we crossed a hostile country where the natives killed one of our soldiers, and wounded three others. The want of time prevented our punishing them as they deserved. Further on, in Guatimala, they had also manned the passes…
Etiquetas: Fenómenos naturales, Historia, Peligros, Violencia
Insectos
The Nigua or Chegoe, called in other countries Pique, is an exceeding small insect, not very unlike the flea, which, in some hot countries is bred in the dust. It fixes upon the feet, and breaking insensibly the cuticle, it nestles betwixt that and…
Etiquetas: Decadencia, Medicina, Peligros
México, Ciudad de
An express from Acapulco brought the news of the mischief done there by the earthquake on the 25th and 26th of the last month. In Mexico some monasteries were overthrown, and some houses damag'd
Etiquetas: Fenómenos naturales, Geografía, Peligros
Pánuco
At last, meeting with Opposition, being attacked at the River of Panuco, the farthest Province of New Spain, on the Gulph of Mexico, they returned to Cuba; and their Report to Velasquez put him upon Prosecuting these Discoveries further.
Etiquetas: Españoles, Exploración, Historia, Peligros
Río de Canoas
We determined now to extend our discoveries as far as circumstances would permit, and passing by the mountains of Tusta and Tuspa, we approached the province of Panuco, thickly set with populous towns, about three or four leagues from the coast; and…
Etiquetas: Cuerpos de agua, Españoles, Exploración, Historia, Peligros
Sacrificio
but seven had died of hunger and fatigue, the rest fell into the hands of the Cacique of the country, who immediately sacrificed five to his idols
Etiquetas: Españoles, Historia, Peligros, Prisioneros
Sierra Nevada
We now returned to our former post, having buried our dead in one of the subterraneous dwellings already mentioned, filling and levelling it, that our loss should not be perceived by the enemy. How wretched and comfortless was our situation after our…
Terremoto
An express from Acapulco brought the news of the mischief done there by the earthquake on the 25th and 26th of the last month. In Mexico some monasteries were overthrown, and some houses damag'd.
Etiquetas: Fenómenos naturales, Geografía, Peligros
Terremotos
But it is often infested with terrible Earth-quakes, impetuous Storms of Wind, violent Thunder and Lightning, and hasty Showers of Rain even in the Summer-Season.
Etiquetas: Fenómenos naturales, Geografía, Peligros