...misfortune had happened to themselves.' « So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these peop]e,» says Columbus in his journal, « that I swear to your...better nation, nor a better land. They love their neighbours as themselves; and iheir discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile;...

...nor, in transporting the effects from the ships, had they appropriated the most trifling article. Oh the contrary, a general sympathy was visible in their...their concern, one would have supposed the misfortune had happened to themselves. " ' So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people,' says Columbus...

...trifling article. On the contrary, a general sympathy was visible in their 330 SHIPWRECK. [Book IV. countenances and actions ; and to have witnessed their concern, one would have supposed the misfortune had happened to themselves *. " So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people," says Columbus...

...loving, 30 tractable, so peaceable, are these people," says the great discoverer in his journal, " that T swear to your majesties, there is not in the world a better nation nor a better land." And yet he sent these very people in chains to his native country, to be received as slaves. A cjuarter...

...countenances and actions; and to have witnessed their concern, one would have supposed the misfortune had happened to themselves.* "So loving, so tractable,...majesties there is not in the world a better nation, or a better land. They love their neighbours as themselves ; and their discourse is ever sweet and...

...themselves: their discourse is even sweet and gentle, and accompanied by a smile: (and he continues,) I swear to Your Majesties there is not in the world a better nation or a better land." But it was not long' before he remitted, says Washington Irving, " with all the...

...themselves: their discourse is even sweet and gentle, and accompanied by a smile: (and he continues,) I swear to Your Majesties there is not in the world a better nation or a better land." But it was not long before he remitted, says Washington Irving, " with all the gold...

...gentle and confiding manners. " So loving, so tractable, so peaceable," he says, " are these people, that I swear to your majesties there is not in the...a better nation nor a better land. They love their neighbours as themselves; and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile...

...express his grateful feelings. " So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people," he writes, "that I swear to your majesties, there is not in the...better nation, nor a better land. They love their neighbours as themselves; and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile...

...depredation, yet there was not the least attempt to pilfer, nor, in transporting the effects from the ship, had they appropriated the most trifling article ;...their concern, one would have supposed the misfortune had happened to themselves." The Spaniards, wearied with long and profitless voyaging, now revelled...