The Spaniard in New Mexico (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Spaniard in New Mexico Spain took a leading part in the discovery, exploration and settlement of the New World. Although Columbus, the discoverer, was not a native, he was in the service, of Spain when he looked, for the first time, upon the tropical beauties of the Western Hemisphere from the quarterdeck of the Pinta. Spaniards were the first to make a lodgment on the main land, and the world will never tire of reading the almost fabulous conquests by Cortez and Pizarro, as drawn by the pen of Prescott. Another Spaniard, Balboa, born neighbor to Cortez, in Estremadura, was the first to look down, from the mountains of Darien, upon the tranquil Pacific sea, whose waves, as they laved the beach at his feet, sang a welcome to the commerce shortly to whiten its bosom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.