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Updated: June 27, 2025
The question crowded Nathaniel's brain with a hundred thrilling pictures. With a shudder he thought of the terrible power the Mormon king held not only over his own people but over the Gentiles of the mainlands as well. With these mainlanders, he regarded Beaver Island as a nest of pirates and murderers.
Barros calls him "Sufo Larij," a name which some writers have derived from "Yusuf of Lar." Castanheda spells the name "Cufolarim." Asada Khan is entitled to a chapter to himself, but, to avoid prolixity, I will only give one extract from the "Asia" of Barros. Allusion has been made above to an attack on the mainlands of Goa by three Hindu chiefs, when Ponda was besieged.
This second or blind channel seemed more familiar to him than the flat and reedy shore at the mouth of the true strait, and he now recognised it as the one to which he had journeyed on foot through the forest. He had not then struck the true strait at all; he had sat down and pondered beside this deceptive inlet thinking that it divided the mainlands.
The species of animals which inhabit the sea on opposite sides of the isthmus of Panama are wholly distinct the animals and plants which inhabit islands are commonly distinct from those of the neighbouring mainlands, and yet have a similarity of aspect.
The discoverers, however, were to raise the English flag over any new lands that they found, to conquer and possess them, and to acquire 'for us dominion, title, and jurisdiction over those towns, castles, islands, and mainlands so discovered. One-fifth of the profits from the anticipated voyages to the new land was to fall to the king, but the Cabots were to have a monopoly of trade, and Bristol was to enjoy the right of being the sole port of entry for the ships engaged in this trade.
The date of the siege Evidence of Castanheda, Correa, Barros, Faria y Souza, Osorio, Lafitau, Firishtah Ruy de Mello and the mainlands of Goa Immense numbers engaged Firishtah's story of the fight Portuguese present Christovao de Figueiredo Political effects of the Hindu victory, and the events that followed it The mainlands of Goa.
Nature guards well the chains by which she connects promontories with mainlands, and binds continents together. Isthmuses are usually composed of adamantine rock or of shifting sands the latter being much the more refractory material to deal with.
The irregular coastlines, the bays and harbors, the near islands and mainlands invited to the sea. The nation became, per force, sailors as the ancient Greeks were and the modern Greeks are: adventurers, discoverers hardy, ambitious, seeking food from the sea and wealth from every side. What they got they could keep; wealth could accumulate.
The species of animals which inhabit the sea on opposite sides of the isthmus of Panama are wholly distinct;* the animals and plants which inhabit islands are commonly distinct from those of the neighbouring mainlands, and yet have a similarity of aspect.
Lafitau also states that the war took place during Sequeira's absence at the Red Sea, and that the mainlands were taken after the Adil Shah's defeat. Turning to Firishtah, I find a difference. That he is speaking of the same affair is obvious from the details given.
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