"Cordoba" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... east side of Vancouver Island, where to this day Spanish names tell of their charting. Some of the names, however, were afterwards changed. What is to-day known as Esquimalt, Quimper called Valdes, and Victoria he named Cordoba. Amid much firing of muskets and drinking of wine Quimper took solemn possession of all this territory for Spain. Then, early in August {61} of 1791, he sailed away for Monterey, while ...
— Pioneers of the Pacific Coast - A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters • Agnes C. Laut
... obrado para conquistarlas algunos Gobernadores y Ministros Reales, y los Misioneros Jesuitas para reduc irlos a la fe del Verdadero Dios.' Por el Padre Pedro Lozano, de la Compania de Jesus, Ano de 1733. En Cordoba por Joseph ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham |
