 | John Fiske - 1892 - 678 pages
...people beheld the women on its banks fighting as valiantly as the men. ... It is not that there are Amazons on that river, but that they said there were, by reason of the valour of the women.'' Garcilasso (Markham'a transl.), lib. viii. cap. One of Orellana's companions, who had boldly denounced... | |
 | John Fiske - 1892 - 680 pages
...beheld thii women on its banks fighting as valiantly as the men. ... It is not that there are Amazon!! on that river, but that they said there were, by reason of the valour of the women." Garcilasso (Markham's transl.), lib. viii. cap. xxii. One of Orellana's companions, who had boldly... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1898 - 420 pages
...American river whose month was discovered in 15oo by Vicente YaíYez Pinzon, who called it Mar Dulce, the ' freshwater sea.' The central portion of the...may have grown up in the sixty-nine years between Orellana's adventurous voyage and the publication of Garcilasso's book. It has been conjectured that... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1898 - 422 pages
...was put forward by Garcilasso de la Vega in his Royal Commentaries of the lncas*¡ published in 1609. He says, ' the name of the river of the Amazons was...the valour of the women.' As Garcilasso was born in 1540, the year in which Orellana descended the river, and as he cannot have seen or conversed with... | |
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the name of the river of the Amazons was given to it because Orellana and his people beheld the women on the banks fighting as valiantly as the men. It is not that there are any Amazons on that river, but that they said there were, by reason of the valour... 