... Capture of several vessels and military supplies -- Reorganizes, recruits his army and returns to Mexico -- A slaughter of Mexicans while at their de... ...dition against Mexico -- Capturing vessels and enlisting their crews -- A vast army and supply of military stores secured - - A plague of smallpox -- ... ... hence promising great spoil to successful invaders. The ships carried a large army prepared for any dangerous enterprise, and sailing out through Gib... ...reight, the second for soldiers and a dining saloon, and the upper used by the officers for quarters, and as a promenade-deck. All the floors of the r... ...ors by Henry VII., who appreciated to the fullest extent the importance of the continental discovery. His son Sebastian made two voyages thereafter, o... ... of the islands; but none of them matured, and owing to the rapid extension of continental settlements remembrance of the Solomon group faded away. Th... ... singly, here and there a lonely traveller, tattered and dusty, with scrip and staff, making his way over parching sands under a blazing tropical sun;... ... most splendid workmanship which decorated the persons of the governor and his staff, and incited them with a stronger desire to penetrate the territo... ...ication to the Emperor, an embassy, consisting of two nobles, accompanied by a staff of a hundred men laden with magnificent gifts from Montezuma, pre...