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Robert E. May
in The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim
Published: 03 September 2013
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Pressure from Without: African Americans, British Public Opinion, and Civil War Diplomacy Get access

R. J. M. Blackett
in The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim
Published: 03 September 2013
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in The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim
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Of a Portuguese youth who, while traveling on a ship under full sail in fine weather, dove into the water wearing a balaclava to swim to another ship of the fleet; and how, by god's mercy, he was picked up by a ship following a quarter of a league behind. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of the caravel they call the Taviras' for the marvelous thing that Will Be recounted here that God and His Glorious Mother did for these women and for other persons who were involved In this shipwreck. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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How Licentiate Alonso Zuazo's Caravel was Wrecked on the Alacranes Islands with Almost Fifty-five or Sixty Persons, of Whom Seventeen Miraculously Escaped with him; and of Many Things that Happened on this Voyage and Shipwreck. To Avoid Overtiring the Reader, this Chapter will be Divided Into Thirty-nine Paragraphs or Parts. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of the misfortune that befell a captain named Benito Hurtado and his people at sea and on land in Tierra Firme in the settling of the province of Cheriquí and in other parts through which they passed.1 1 Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of the several wrecks of Cristóbal de sanabria, of seville, who now is a resident of this city of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola, and of the others who were with him; and because the story is long it is contained in fourteen paragraphs or parts. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of the unfortunate event and shipwreck (which some have attributed to a lack of prudence) of a pilot named Juan Bermúdez, who departed the port of this city of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola bound for Castile in the year 1538 and returned from the Azores the following year, 1539, without making Spain. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Which is more than a shipwreck tale because it treats of a marvelous event which is given in an extraordinary report of the very famous and powerful river called the marañón, along which Captain Francisco de Orellana and other hidalgos navigated more than two thousand leagues for eight months until arriving in Christian lands at Las Perlas Island (or Cubagua) in this oceanic region, and from there the captain came to this city of Santo Domingo with some soldiers from his company, participants in his travails and witnesses to everything herein contained;1 all this as recorded by a devout and reverend father of the Order of Preachers Friars, Gaspar de Carvajal,2 who was present in person for everything and who relates the lesson and brief history in the following fashion:3 1 2 3 Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of the Shipwreck and Marvelous event that befell a reverend canon of the holy cathedral of this our city of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola and to others who experienced this crisis, from which they escaped by God's mercy in the manner that will be related here. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Which treats of two hurricanes or storms that struck the island of Hispaniola and other neighboring islands, and of some shipwrecks that happened because of the storms in the months of August and September of 1545. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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In which are the author's conclusion and defense of these histories to those who may see these materials, making known that in Spain among some Latinists and authoritative persons it was said that the historian of such new and strange studies ought to have written them in the Latin language; and later there was controversy among the aforesaid—some faulting him, others supporting him; and, of course, there was someone to write to him in the Indies concerning the deliberation pro and con in Spain; to which the author responded with a letter which here, reader, you may judge for yourself, providing that impartially, humanely, and calmly you weigh his response in the balance of justice, giving it due reason and truth to better consider, ponder, and decide the correct verdict; note what he says. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Notes Get access

in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Dashing Wave Sail Chart Get access

in Cruise of the Dashing Wave: Rounding Cape Horn in 1860
Published: 01 February 2010
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Philip Hichborn’s Life after 1860 Get access

in Cruise of the Dashing Wave: Rounding Cape Horn in 1860
Published: 01 February 2010
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Clipper Ship Dashing Wave after 1860 Get access

in Cruise of the Dashing Wave: Rounding Cape Horn in 1860
Published: 01 February 2010
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Captain Lancaster’s Daughter, Irene Johnson, Discusses Dashing Wave Get access

in Cruise of the Dashing Wave: Rounding Cape Horn in 1860
Published: 01 February 2010
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Acknowledgments Get access

in Cruise of the Dashing Wave: Rounding Cape Horn in 1860
Published: 01 February 2010
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The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim

The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim Get access

Robert E. May
Published online: 23 January 2014
Published in print: 03 September 2013