misas

Updated: May 15, 2025

In this voyage Niquesa discovered the coast called Nombre de Dios, and went into the sound of Darien, on the river Pito, which he named Puerto de Misas. Coming to Veragua, Hojeda went on shore with his soldiers, and built there the town of Caribana, as a defence against the Caribbees; being the first town built by the Spaniards on the continent of the new world.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

Here a petate, or a palm hat there a broken olla; a stringless bandolon, the fragments of a guitar crushed under the angry heel, or some flimsy articles of female dress cuffed into the dust; leaves of torn books misas, or lives of the Santisima Maria the labours of some zealous padre; old paintings of the saints, Guadalupe, Remedios, and Dolores of the Nino of Guatepec rudely torn from the walls and perforated by the sacrilegious bayonet, flung into the road, kicked from foot to foot the dishonoured penates of a conquered people.

Mayne Reid - The Rifle Rangers