This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...His head-dress and those of his companions indicate that they are men of prowess. Crouching in the foreground is the native guide pointing to his birch-bark map of the proposed route up the St. Lawrence. A dramatic moment fraught with world-wide consequences. DOM JOAO, KINGOF PORTUGAL, LANDING AT RIO ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...His head-dress and those of his companions indicate that they are men of prowess. Crouching in the foreground is the native guide pointing to his birch-bark map of the proposed route up the St. Lawrence. A dramatic moment fraught with world-wide consequences. DOM JOAO, KINGOF PORTUGAL, LANDING AT RIO DE JANEIRO On the east wall is the Brazilian panel. This represents " The Landing of Dom Joao, King of Portugal." Dom Joao of Portugal, driven from his ancestral possessions by Napoleon, sought refuge in his colony in the New World, transferring the Portuguese seat of government to Rio de Janeiro, where he landed in 1808. This transference of the seat of an ancient monarchy to the New World was an event absolutely unique in the history of the American nations, an act at once making it impossible that great Brazil should continue dependent upon little Portugal and determining the special and peculiar course of Brazil's development. The panel shows the monarch conveyed in state from his warship to the palace prepared in anticipation of his coming. The many-oared barge of state in which he made his landing is still preserved and shown in the city that was the first in America to receive the person of its King. When Secretary Root visited the Brazilian capital to attend the memorable Pan American Conference of 1906 he was brought to the shore in this barge. The borders of all these panels are designed to harmonize with the character of the subjects. On the top of the frame is the key pattern, symbol of construction used in decoration by all primitive peoples; the lower border and sides is a conventionalized adaptation of the " flower of the Incas." Corner of Stack Room with Capacity for 120,000 Volumes THE COLUMBUS LIBRARY The...
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