This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...of Fayal, in the Azores; an appointment which he held for some time. He is also said to have made many voyages on and from the western coast of Africa; he has even been charged with having already anticipated Christopher himself, but although a good Christian, it is believed he died without acknowledging this atrocity. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...of Fayal, in the Azores; an appointment which he held for some time. He is also said to have made many voyages on and from the western coast of Africa; he has even been charged with having already anticipated Christopher himself, but although a good Christian, it is believed he died without acknowledging this atrocity. He is celebrated in the Portuguese archives as a great mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and navigator. It is, moreover, certain that he intimately knew Columbus; and that his opinion and counsel were inquired of by the King as to the proposals and intentions of that great discoverer. Hut amongst all these curiosities of ancient science, J must not forget to do my part towards immortalising the remembrance of one exhibited here in the year 1058, and no longer in existence. This was a gastronomic specimen, --one of a class in which this country seems always to have excelled; it was an enormous black pudding or German sausage, about 800 feet in length, and weighing upwards of 700 pounds, which was decorated with various coloured ribbons, and borne through the streets by the butchers of Nuremberg on the yearly festival of their guild. In the old picture wherein this is represented, herds of pigs arc seen taking to flight, open-mouthed, in all directions; their countenances express the greatest terror, their tails are curled most distractedly, and their whole mass of blood appears evidently turned at the sight of this fearful procession. CHAPTER XII. THE STORY OF CASPAR HACSER. As the history of this mysterious individual, who so much puzzled the German world about sixteen years ago, belongs peculiarly to Nuremberg, and as it is just possible, notwithstanding the partial translation of the work of Herr von Feuerbach, that you may not have rea..
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