Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . ermanent settlement in the land that hadbeen discovered the year before. Even 20 horses for as manysoldiers armed with lances, which played a most terrorizing influenceamong the American Indians,—because they had never seen horsesbefore, and supposed that both the animal and his rider were a singleindividual—came over also on board those Spanish vessels. Besides this excellent description of the first part of the secondvoyage of Columbus to America, which competent authorities con-sider the best in existence, Dr. Chanca also supplied informationto Father
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . ermanent settlement in the land that hadbeen discovered the year before. Even 20 horses for as manysoldiers armed with lances, which played a most terrorizing influenceamong the American Indians,—because they had never seen horsesbefore, and supposed that both the animal and his rider were a singleindividual—came over also on board those Spanish vessels. Besides this excellent description of the first part of the secondvoyage of Columbus to America, which competent authorities con-sider the best in existence, Dr. Chanca also supplied informationto Father Andres Bernaldez, the celebrated parish priest of thetown of Los Palacios and chaplain to the archbishop of Seville,Don Diego de Deza, which enabled Bernaldez to give many im-portant details of this expedition of the Spaniards in his famoushistorical work entitled Chronicle of the Catholic Kings. Thetown of Los Palacios is located twelve miles to the south from thecity of Seville, and has at present a population of about 2,000.] I. A ../
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