item: #1 of 13 id: 20321 author: Casas, Bartolomé de las title: A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. date: None words: 31185 flesch: 50 summary: he had subjugated as he could, that they might fight with their Country-men; and when he had in his Army Twenty, or sometimes Thirty Thousand of them, and could not afford them sustenance, he permitted them to feed on the Flesh of other _Indians_ taken Prisoners in War; and so kept a Shambles of Man's Flesh in his Army, suffered Children to be kill'd and roasted before his Face. It pleased God to send a Ship thither forthwith, to the greater confirming of the Governours Damnation, where in the Letters they sent to the Religious of _Hispaniola_, Letters containing repeated Exclamations and Protestations, and protest against such Actions, but those that received them denyed them Justice, for that they were partakers of that Prey, made of those _Indians_ so injustly and impiously captivated. keywords: captain; children; city; cruelties; death; fire; god; gold; great; indians; inhabitants; king; kingdom; lord; men; miles; nay; new; number; people; place; provinces; regions; rest; spain; spaniards; spanish; time; tyrant; year cache: 20321.txt plain text: 20321.txt item: #2 of 13 id: 27253 author: Fiske, John title: The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest date: None words: 159765 flesch: 67 summary: [Footnote 83: Somewhat on the same principle that in mediæval Europe led an earl or count, commanding an exposed border district or _march_ to rise in power and importance and become a margrave [_mark_ + _graf_ A king like Charles VII. of France, or Edward III. of England, was military commander, civil magistrate, chief judge, and _supreme landlord_; the people were his tenants. keywords: account; admiral; africa; ages; america; ammiraglio; ancient; asia; atlantic; authority; barbarism; bartholomew; beginning; book; brothers; cape; casas; case; castile; cathay; centuries; century; change; character; chief; china; christopher; city; civilization; clan; coast; colony; columbus; confederacy; connection; continent; council; countries; country; course; culture; date; days; death; description; development; diego; direction; discoveries; discovery; doubt; early; earth; east; eastern; end; england; english; europe; european; existence; fact; family; father; ferdinand; ferdinand columbus; footnote; general; genoa; gold; good; great; greek; greenland; ground; group; hand; harrisse; head; henry; high; hispaniola; historia; history; house; human; i. p.; i. pp; iceland; icelandic; iii; indians; indies; information; interest; iroquois; isabella; island; john; kind; king; knowledge; las; left; leif; length; letter; life; lisbon; little; london; major; making; man; map; marco; means; men; mention; mexico; middle; miles; mind; morgan; narrative; natives; near; new; nicolò; north; northern; northmen; number; ocean; opinion; order; original; paris; people; period; place; point; polo; portugal; portuguese; present; prince; ptolemy; pueblo; que; question; race; rafn; reason; red; region; return; right; river; route; saga; savagery; sea; second; ships; sidenote; society; son; sort; south; sovereigns; spain; spaniards; spanish; statement; status; stone; subject; theory; things; thought; time; tom; toscanelli; trade; tribes; upper; vast; venice; version; vinland; vol; voyage; war; water; way; west; western; words; work; world; writers; years; zeno cache: 27253.txt plain text: 27253.txt item: #3 of 13 id: 29003 author: Root, Elihu title: Latin America and the United States Addresses by Elihu Root date: None words: 96076 flesch: 48 summary: The library maintained here, the books and journals accessible here, the useful and interesting publications of the bureau, the enormous correspondence carried on with seekers for knowledge about American countries, the opportunities now afforded for further growth in all these activities, justify the pains and the expense. From the White House, where President Roosevelt firmly maintains the traditions of great American names, there has come to us on a mission of peace an eminent and highly esteemed statesman, bringing us political ideas of a new mould and the frank diplomacy of modern democracies. keywords: affairs; american; american conference; american republic; brazil; civilization; conference; congress; continent; countries; country; desire; development; foreign; friendship; future; general; good; government; honor; hope; independence; international; justice; law; liberty; life; mexican; mexico; nations; new; north; order; pan american; peace; people; power; president; progress; prosperity; relations; republic; respect; root; secretary; south; south america; speech; spirit; time; trade; united states; visit; war; washington; welcome; work; world; years cache: 29003.txt plain text: 29003.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 3042 author: Shepherd, William R. (William Robert) title: The Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors date: None words: 47096 flesch: 52 summary: Nevertheless they were disposed to cooperate with their northern neighbor in the peaceable adjustment of conflicts in which other Hispanic countries were concerned, provided that the mediation carried on by such a concert of the western world did not include actual intervention in the internal affairs of the countries involved. Carried away, also, by the enthusiasm of the moment, and forgetful of the utter unpreparedness of the country, the Congress promulgated a federal constitution modeled on that of the United States, which set forth all the approved doctrines of the rights of man. keywords: affairs; america; argentina; army; bolivar; brazil; capital; central; chief; chile; congress; constitution; control; countries; country; diaz; general; government; hispanic; independence; life; mexico; military; national; nations; new; office; order; paraguay; people; peru; portugal; power; president; provinces; regime; republic; revolution; san; set; south; spain; spanish; struggle; time; united states; venezuela; war; world; years cache: 3042.txt plain text: 3042.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 31221 author: Duellman, William Edward title: The Genera of Phyllomedusine Frogs (Anura: Hylidae) date: None words: 2568 flesch: 63 summary: Many groups of _Hyla_ in this area (for example, the _Hyla boans_ and _Hyla marmorata_ groups) are equally as arboreal in their habits as are the species of _Agalychnis_ in Central America. DISCUSSION Noble (1931) considered the species of _Phyllomedusa_ having opposable digits, reduced terminal discs, and no webbing to be advanced and such species as _Agalychnis moreleti_, _calcarifer_, and _spurrelli_ to be primitive. keywords: agalychnis; america; boulenger; cope; frogs; genus; hylids; phyllomedusa; species cache: 31221.txt plain text: 31221.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 31789 author: Latané, John Holladay title: The United States and Latin America date: None words: 98077 flesch: 54 summary: At the same time a copy was sent to General Robert C. Schenck, United States minister at London, with instructions to read the same to Lord Derby, and to suggest to him that it would be agreeable to the United States if the British government would support by its influence the position assumed by the Grant administration. A body of United States troops under command of General Franklin Bell was sent to Cuba to preserve order and to uphold the provisional government. keywords: action; affairs; american; american states; britain; british; canal; claims; colombia; colonies; conference; congress; convention; country; cuba; doctrine; england; european; force; foreign; france; french; general; government; independence; international; intervention; law; mexican; mexico; minister; monroe; nations; new; nicaragua; panama; people; policy; political; powers; president; question; relations; republic; right; second; secretary; senate; south; spain; spanish; states government; territory; time; treaty; united states; vol; war; washington; way; years cache: 31789.txt plain text: 31789.txt item: #7 of 13 id: 35904 author: Chase, Allan title: The Five Arrows date: None words: 104395 flesch: 92 summary: At that moment Tabio saw Hall. _Compañero_ Hall! keywords: ambassador; american; androtten; anibal; ansaldo; car; chair; coffee; compañero; day; desk; doctor; don; door; duarte; embassy; eyes; face; falange; fascist; fielding; gamburdo; good; government; hall; hand; havana; head; hell; hermano; jerry; left; let; letter; lobo; look; major; man; margaret; mateo; matt; men; mexican; minutes; morning; new; office; papers; people; pepe; phone; picture; president; rafael; republic; right; rivas; room; san; santiago; segador; señor; sleep; souza; spain; spanish; story; tabio; table; talk; time; tonight; want; war; way; week; world; years; young cache: 35904.txt plain text: 35904.txt item: #8 of 13 id: 37582 author: Bindloss, Harold title: The Coast of Adventure date: None words: 90892 flesch: 87 summary: While they talked about other matters, Evelyn Cliffe sat in the stern of the tiny sloop, enjoying the sense of control the grasp of the tiller gave her, and the swift rush of the polished hull through the sparkling foam. Turning abruptly, he stood facing Evelyn Cliffe. keywords: air; blanca; boat; business; cliffe; country; dark; don; enchantress; evelyn; eyes; face; father; frio; girl; gomez; good; grahame; half; hand; head; help; house; leave; light; look; macallister; man; martin; men; money; people; president; rio; room; round; sarmiento; sea; señor; spanish; tell; things; thought; time; town; trouble; walthew; water; way; white cache: 37582.txt plain text: 37582.txt item: #9 of 13 id: 39009 author: González de Mendoza, Juan title: The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 1 (of 2) date: None words: 82489 flesch: 61 summary: In his southward journey Polo mentions many great cities in Manji, which it would be difficult to identify with their modern nomenclature. They eat also of dead animals, and practice in many other things like the Magians; and, in truth, the religion of the one and the other is much the same. keywords: account; bee; care; carrie; cause; chap; chapter; china; chinese; chinos; citie; city; common; counsell; countrie; country; court; day; death; declare; doe; doo; doth; euerie; euery; father; fish; following; foure; giue; god; goe; gold; good; great; hath; haue; hee; historie; houses; ilands; iudge; iustice; king; king doth; kingdome; kinges; knowledge; left; life; man; manie; manner; matters; men; mightie; neuer; number; occasion; officers; order; people; person; place; portuguese; present; prouince; purpose; reason; rest; rich; said; sea; seene; set; sidenote; siluer; sixe; sonne; sort; themselues; things; time; townes; truth; verie; vnderstand; vnto; vpon; vse; water; way; whereof; women; worke; world; yeares cache: 39009.txt plain text: 39009.txt item: #10 of 13 id: 43422 author: Pierson, William Whatley, Jr. title: A Syllabus of Hispanic-American History date: None words: 10804 flesch: 62 summary: Bur. of For. and Dom. Commerce); Gueydan, _Transportation Facilities of Colombia and Venezuela_ (_ibid._); _ The Emancipation of South America_. keywords: america; brazil; central; chile; colonial; countries; cuba; government; hispanic; historia; history; latin; mexico; new; peru; readings; relations; shepherd; south; south america; spain; spanish; states; system; trade; united; vol; war cache: 43422.txt plain text: 43422.txt item: #11 of 13 id: 47415 author: Enock, C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) title: Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 71319 flesch: 64 summary: There are other smaller _plazas_ and subsidiary squares in the city, including those of San Francisco and Santo Domingo. The houses of Mexico are of a type unknown to the Anglo-Saxon American; the social customs, the aspects of the streets, the markets, the flower-market, the old, massive public buildings, the cotton-clad Indian folk in the _plazas_ side by side with beautifully dressed señoritas and correctly attired, grave and ceremonious men--statesmen, lawyers, doctors and men of many professions, the _serenatas_ or concerts in the _alamedas_, the lottery ticket vendors thrusting their flimsy wares into one's face, urging you to tempt fortune--for will not the wheel be turned in the public square in half an hour, and may you yourself not be the winner of the sorteo?--all these features catch the traveller's eye as in the genial sunshine, before the midday heat renders the shade of the _patio_ or veranda advisable, we observe the life of the Mexican city. keywords: america; andes; bolivia; british; capital; central; chile; chilean; city; civilization; class; coast; cordillera; cortes; country; day; early; ecuador; empire; face; feet; folk; form; forth; gold; good; great; history; home; inca; indians; lake; land; life; line; little; man; men; mexican; mexico; miles; mountain; native; nature; new; pacific; panama; people; peru; pizarro; place; population; quito; race; region; republic; sea; silver; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; spanish america; states; stone; time; towns; traveller; valley; war; water; way; white; work; world; years cache: 47415.txt plain text: 47415.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 51300 author: Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir title: Spanish America, Vol. 2 (of 2) date: None words: 115405 flesch: 73 summary: _Yurba_ river, ii. 154. _Intendancies_, number of, in New Spain, i. 32. _Joanes_ island, at the mouth of the Maranon, i. 329. _ keywords: account; america; andes; ayres; banks; boundaries; buenos; capital; caraccas; cattle; chain; chief; chili; church; city; climate; coast; commerce; country; cumana; cuzco; de la; del; distance; district; east; extent; feet; form; fruits; general; gold; government; governor; granada; great; high; history; houses; inca; indians; inhabitants; island; isle; la plata; lake; latitude; leagues; length; longitude; mexico; mines; mountains; n.|; natives; new; new granada; new spain; north; number; orinoco; pacific; paraguay; parts; people; peru; pizarro; place; plains; plata; population; port; present; produce; province; rio; river; road; s.|; santa; sea; settlements; silver; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; time; town; trade; tribes; valley; water; west; | | cache: 51300.txt plain text: 51300.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 62541 author: García Calderón, Francisco title: Latin America: Its Rise and Progress date: None words: 108066 flesch: 53 summary: Echeverria_, 254 Economic Problems (378-86); loans, 379, 381; foreign capital, 383 Ecuador, 92-3 (213-21) Encyclopædists, the, 65, 81 England, policy of, 64; influence of, 83, 390 Equalitarianism, 63 _Estrade, Angel de_, 268 FALCON, President of Venezuela, 106-7 Faustinas I. of Hayti, 229 Federation, in Spain, 35; Bolivar's prophecies of, 77; _see_ Unity Feijó, Diego, 184-5 Feudal system, 30, 38 Flores, Dictator of Uruguay, 132-3 Flores, J. J., founder of Ecuador, 87, 213 _Fombona, Blanco_, 265, 268 _ Mill, J. S._, 274-5 Miranda, 66, 81, 83 Miscegenation, 48-50; in Peru, 194; _see_ Indians, Mestizos, Negro, Race Monagas, J. T. and J. G., Presidents of Venezuela, 103-5 Monagas, J. R., President of Venezuela, 107 Monarchy in Spain, 35-8; its relations at time of revolution with the revolted colonies, 60-1, 63 Monks, 52-3 Monopoly, 51-2 Monroe Doctrine, 290-1, 302-4, 392 _Montalvo_, 239-40 Montezuma, 48 Montt, President of Chili, 168-9 Mosquera, President of Colombia 206-7 _Münsterberg, Professor_, 294 Mystics of Spain, 33 _NABUCO, J._, 274 Nationality, early phases of, 84 Negroes, first introduction of, 49, 50; distribution of, 53, 355-6, 358-9 _Nervo, A._, 265 New Granada, 77 _Nietzsche_, 278 North American Peril, 298-312 Nuñez, Rafael, President of Colombia, 201, 206-11, 276 _OLMEDO_, 251 Olney, Secretary, 300 Orbegoso, 123 Ordoñez, President of Uruguay, 132 Oribe, President of Uruguay, 129 PACIFIC, Confederation of the, 343 Paez, President of Venezuela, 61, 87, 91, 101-6 _Palma, R._, 267 Panama, 303; the Canal, 387-8 Pando, 126 Paraguay, 191-7; the great war in, 196-7 _Pardo, Felipe_, 252 Pardo, President of Peru, 117-9 Paz, 140 _Pearson, Karl_, 362 Pedro, Dom, I., 182 Pedro, Dom, II., 185-6, 188 Pelucones, 92 Peru, 68, 70-1; first Constitution, 82; 92-3 (113-121); War of Independence, 113, 342 Philosophy, 271-80 Picaro, the, in literature, 34, 43 Pierola, President of Peru, 120 Pitt, 83 Plutocracy, rise of, 94; future of, 97 Poincaré, R., 14 Political conflict, the, 92; problems, 365-77 Popham, Sir Home, 65 Portales, President of Chili, 118, 124, 165-8 Porto Rico, 303 Portuguese in S. America, 45-6 Posadas, 61 _QUINTANA_, 250, 252 Quiroga, General, 139-40 Quito, 65 RACE, problems of, 283-9, 351-64 Regenerators, the, 87 Renaissance, the, 45 Republics, early S. American, 39, 61 Revolutions, 65-81; ideology of, 81-5; 94 _Reyles, Carlos_, 206-9 Rio Branco, 187 Rivadavia, Dictator of the Argentine, 135-8 Rivera, President of Uruguay, 127-30 Rocafuerte, President of Ecuador, 214 _Rodo, J. E._, 133, 264, 266, 274 Rome, in Spain, 33 Roosevelt, Theodore, 304, 318 Root, Secretary, 300 Rosas, Argentine tyrant, 139-46 _Rousseau, J. J._, influence of, 81 _SALAVERRY_, 123-4, 254 Salisbury, Lord, 300 Salvador, 223 San Domingo, 226-31 San Martin, Protector of Peru, crosses the Andes, 67, 68-9, 72 _San Martin, Zorilla_, 256 Sancho Panza, 53 Santa-Ana, President of Mexico, 150-1 Santa-Cruz, President of Bolivia, 87, 114, 125 Santana, Dictator of San Domingo, 230 Santander, President of Colombia, 87, 205 _ keywords: action; america; anarchy; anglo; argentine; authority; bolivar; bolivia; brazil; capital; caudillos; central; century; chapter; chili; cities; colombia; colonies; conflict; congress; conservative; constitution; continent; country; democracies; democracy; development; empire; england; english; european; face; foreign; form; france; free; french; future; general; government; half; history; ideas; independence; influence; japanese; latin; latin america; law; laws; leader; liberal; liberty; life; means; mexico; military; national; nations; new; north; order; party; peace; people; period; peru; political; politics; power; president; progress; provinces; race; religion; republic; revolution; rosas; social; south; south america; spain; spanish; spirit; states; system; time; united; united states; unity; uruguay; venezuela; war; wealth; work; world; years cache: 62541.txt plain text: 62541.txt