Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
Two horses were landed, and two youths named Hector Homen and Diego Lopez d'Almaida, who had been educated in the household of Don Henry, and were scarcely sixteen years of age, were directed to penetrate into the interior of the country, that they might endeavour to ascertain whether it were inhabited.
In Kosters's travels in Brazil, we read of a negro who was reported by one of his fellows to become occasionally lobas homen or wolf-man.
However, on being told how things stood, he began in Spanish, and opening his mouth as wide as he could, the better to articulate, said: "Vos sois um homen de bem." The native listened, but made no reply. "He doesn't understand," said the geographer. "Perhaps you haven't the right accent," suggested the Major. "That's just it! Confound the accent!"
At Abrantes and Santarem, the receptions accorded me took the wildest form of enthusiasm and I there heard for the first time the peculiar name given me in Portugal 'Homen das Botas', 'the man with the boots'. This name grew out of an ancient story connected with the Tagus.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking