Excerpt from Venezuela: A Land King Ferdinand made Ojeda governor of all the north coast Of South America. He called it New Andalusia, but, as distinguished from the islands, it was better known as the Spanish Main. After enduring hardships and suffer ings for which modern exploration offers no comparison, Ojeda was driven away by the savages, and returned bank rupt and broken-hearted to Santo Domingo, where he died soon after, begging with his last breath to be buried under the threshold of the cathedral, that all who ...
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Excerpt from Venezuela: A Land King Ferdinand made Ojeda governor of all the north coast Of South America. He called it New Andalusia, but, as distinguished from the islands, it was better known as the Spanish Main. After enduring hardships and suffer ings for which modern exploration offers no comparison, Ojeda was driven away by the savages, and returned bank rupt and broken-hearted to Santo Domingo, where he died soon after, begging with his last breath to be buried under the threshold of the cathedral, that all who passed inward or outward might tread upon his bones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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