Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 86
overturned in the ascent, rolled head-long with their steeds into the lake. The infantryfollowed pell-mell, heaped promiscuously on one an-other, or struck down by the war clubs of theAztecs; while many an unfortunate victim wasdragged half-stunned on board their canoes, to bereserved for a… … BATTLE ON THE CAUSEWAY which often prostrated their own countrymen in theblind fury of the tempest. Those nearest the dike,running their canoes alongside, with a force thatshattered them to pieces, leaped on the land, and 70 The Retreat of Cortes grappled with the Christians, until both came…
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