But this I thought would produce confusion, and result in no good.
— from My First Mission by George Q. (George Quayle) Cannon
CARTOGRAPHIC results of Coronado expedition … 403 CASA DE CONTRATACION, description of … 351 CASA GRANDE, attempts to identify with Chichilticalli … 387 CASTAÑEDA, ALONSO DE, death, of … 500 CASTAÑEDA, PEDRO DE, narrative of Coronado expedition by … 413 , 417 —, manuscript of, in Lenox library … 339 , 413 —, story of an indian trader … 345 —, explanation of troubles between Friar Marcos and Estevan … 355 —, story of Estevan's death … 360 —, says Friar Marcos' promotion was arranged by Mendoza … 364 —, accusations against Friar Marcos … 366 —, mistake regarding departure of Alarcon … 385 —, stories of revolt of Rio Grande indians … 393 —, credibility of his version of the Turk's stories of Quivira … 394 —, Spanish family name … 511 —, difficulties in manuscript of … 513 , 514 —, peculiarities of style of … 525 , 526 CASTILLO, ALONSO DEL, same as Maldonado … 348 CATTLE, imported into New Spain … 375 CAVALLOS, BAHIA DE LOS, site of Narvaez' camp … 347 CEDROS, ARROYO DE LOS, crossed by Coronado … 584 CENTIZPAC, a river in New Galicia … 382 CEREMONIAL meal, use of, on Moki trails … 488 CEREMONIES of pueblo indians … 544 , 550 , 573 —, pueblo, studied by Fewkes … 359 — of Tiguex indians … 595 CERECS THURBERH, see PITAHAYA.
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship
To be forever unmoving, as the clod and rock, is not good.
— from Hearts of Three by Jack London
But public safety and the demands of science had long ago decreed that they should be whisked off, as soon as dead, a score or two at a time, and swept on iron tram-cars into furnaces heated to such intense white heat that they dissolved, crackling, even as they entered the chamber, and rose in nameless gases through the high chimney.
— from Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Ignatius Donnelly
Chronic articular rheumatism is not generally fatal, but there is danger of permanent deformities.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce
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