 | Charles Henry Eden - 1880 - 314 pages
...discovered in 1527 by a Spaniard named Juan Camber and Floating Dock, Bermuda. Bermudas, who, whilst on a voyage from Spain to Cuba with a cargo of hogs, was wrecked upon the group, when the live stock swam ashore, multiplied, and became quite wild. An... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1885 - 422 pages
...with the Admiralty. The Bermudas were first discovered in 1515 by a Spanish vessel, called La Garza, on a voyage from Spain to Cuba, with a cargo of hogs, and commanded by Juan Bermudez, and having on board Gonzalez Oviedo, the historian of the Indies, to... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1885 - 416 pages
...with the Admiralty. The Bermudas were first discovered in 1515 by a Spanish vessel, called La Garza, on a voyage from Spain to Cuba, with a cargo of hogs, and commanded by Juan Bermudez, and having on board Gonzalez Oviedo, the historian of the Indies, to... | |
 | 1885 - 420 pages
...with the Admiralty. The Bermudas were first discovered in 1515 by a Spanish vessel, called La Garza, on a voyage from Spain to Cuba, with a cargo of hogs, and commanded by Juan Bermudez, and having on board Gonzalez Oviedo, the historian of the Indies, to... | |
 | 1887 - 294 pages
...tells how they came upon the island: "In the year 1515 the ship La Garza, commanded by Juan Bermudez, on a voyage from Spain to Cuba with a cargo of hogs, having on board the historian of the Indies, Gonzalez Oireda, who has left the first account of the... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1896 - 400 pages
...ground,' or, as Krebs thinks, from barlin, a ' shelter ' or ' place of refuge, ' or, according to Klöden, an 'enclosure' or 'field,' while Vilovski suggests...George Somers in 16o9 we owe the name Somers Islands, which by popular etymology has been cor68 rupted into the Summer Islands. This shipwreck probably suggested... | |
 | Alpheus Hyatt Verrill - 1917 - 598 pages
...often chilly. Frost unknown. Not tropical. Discovered by a Spaniard, Juan Bermudez, in 1515, while on a voyage from Spain to Cuba with a cargo of hogs. The historian, Ovicdo, was on board the vessel — the Garza — and recorded the discovery. Later,... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1922 - 960 pages
...The total population in 1920 was 21,987. — See also BRITISH EMPIRE: Extent. 1515. — Juan Bermudez on a voyage from Spain to Cuba with a cargo of hogs discovered this group of islands. 1543. — In this year Ferdinand Camelo, a Portuguese mariner, touched... | |
 | Charles G. Herbermann - 1922 - 848 pages
...these islands in 1515, they were discovered at an earlier date by Juan de Bermudez, who was shipwrecked on a .voyage from Spain to Cuba with a cargo of hogs. The exact date of the discovery is not known, but a map, contained in the first edition of the "Legatio... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1885 - 438 pages
...the Admiralty. The Bermudas were first discovered in 1 5 1 5 by a Spanish vessel, called La Garza, on a voyage from Spain to Cuba, with a cargo of hogs, and commanded by Juan Bermudez, and having on board Gonzalez Oviedo, the historian of the Indies, to... | |
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... During the crop season, in the months of April, May and June, steamers are run weekly. The Cunard Company also have a. monthly service between Halifax, Bermuda, Turks Island and Jamaica, under contract with the Admiralty. The Bermudas were first discovered... 