 Majesty, to send these ships in that direction ; but being well aware of the great desire of your Majesty to know the secret of this strait, and of the great advantage the crown would derive from its discovery, I postpone all other schemes and interests,...  The Oregon Almanac and Book of Facts - Page 5edited by - 1898Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Dwight Anderson - 1880 - 108 pages
...between the two oceans, for, in his fourth letter to Charles V, dated October, 15, 1524, he says, " Being well aware of the great desire of your majesty...promote my interests, in order to pursue this object alone."4 A few years later, in 1529, he was made Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca, in the state of the... | |
 | Alexander Dwight Anderson - 1884 - 170 pages
...water-way between the two oceans, for, in his fourth letter to Charles V, dated October 15, 1524, he says : "Being well aware of the great desire of your majesty...discovery, I have laid aside all other schemes, more obvi '•r*. <s> V* ously tending to promote my interests, in order to pursue this object alone." 1... | |
 | Archibald Ross Colquhoun - 1895 - 508 pages
...that direction ; but being well aware of the great desire of your Majesty to know the secret of this strait, and of the great advantage the crown would derive from its discovery, I postpone all other schemes and interests, some of them of the highest moment, in order to pursue this... | |
 | ARCHIBALD ROSS COLQUHOUN - 1898 - 836 pages
...that direction ; but being well aware of the great desire of your Majesty to know the secret of this strait, and of the great advantage the crown would derive from its discovery, I postpone all other schemes and interests, some of them of the highest moment, in order to pursue this... | |
 | Willis Fletcher Johnson - 1906 - 560 pages
...; "but," he added, "being well aware of the great desire of your Majesty to know the secret of this Strait, and of the great advantage the crown would derive from its discovery, I postpone all other schemes and interests, some of them of the highest moment, to pursue this object... | |
 | Geographical Society of Philadelphia - 1911 - 312 pages
...that direction; but being well aware of the great desire of your Majesty to know the secret of this strait, and of the great advantage the crown would derive from its discovery, I postpone all other schemes and interests, some of them of the highest moment, in order to pursue this... | |
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