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...inst Cuba -- Religion and effeminacy of the Cubans -- The burning of an heroic chief -- Settlements and cities founded in Cuba -- Cortez the hero/of a... ...f-constituted council set up -- An alliance with the Totonacs -- Scenes in the chief city of the Totonacs -- The horrible custom of offering human sac... ... peril of Cortez' situation -- Montezuma seized as a hostage -- Burning of two chiefs in the market place of Mexico -- A raid on the magazine of the c... ...ble intercourse with the natives -- Hospitable but thievish -- Meeting the old chief of Amsterdam - - Description of the people -- An Utopian Republic... ...the visit of so many beautiful women -- Bougainville is entertained by an aged chief -- At the chiefs invitation the French pitch their tents upon the... ...here were bridges, and buildings, and tunnels that exhibited the most splendid engineering skill; factories that provided the most costly fabrics; pla... ... victory, and had studied the fortresses planned by Vaughan. The assistance of engineers was therefore called in and Tortuga was put in a condition of... ... a home for outlaws, and here the robbers of the deep made their nest. Skilled engineers ran parallels, redoubts were thrown up on the enclosing point...