 | Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson - Demarcation line of Alexander VI. - 1904 - 332 pages
...people. All these people live very luxuriously. All wear silk, and of the most fine and costly quality. The gala dresses and clothes of the women are so many...that in no other kingdom of the world are found such ; so that if four merchantvessels went to Peru annually, all the cloth goods would be sold, as well... | |
 | Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson - Demarcation line of Alexander VI. - 1904 - 334 pages
...people. All these people live very luxuriously. All wear silk, and of the most fine and costly quality. The gala dresses and clothes of the women are so many...that in no other kingdom of the world are found such; so that if four merchantvessels went to Peru annually, all the cloth goods would be sold, as well as... | |
 | James Alexander Robertson - Electronic journals - 1918 - 538 pages
...Congreso de Sevilla (1914), p. 359. says. "All wear silk, and of the most fine and costly quality. The gala dresses and clothes of the women are so many...Imperial City," and "heart of the Indies," was in her bonanza times, and leading a riotous career of indulgence, for which the stream of silver from... | |
 | Denis Crispin Twitchett, John King Fairbank - China - 1978 - 1240 pages
...that were "of the most fine and costly quality. The gala dresses and clothes of the women [in Lima] are so many and so excessive that in no other kingdom of the world are found such."9' A similar situation existed in New Spain, where silk dresses known as China poblana became... | |
 | Nels Andrew Nelson Cleven - Latin America - 1927 - 824 pages
...people. All these people live very luxuriously. All wear silk, and of the most fine and costly quality. The gala dresses and clothes of the women are so many...that in no other kingdom of the world are found such ; so that if four merchant-vessels went to Peru annually, all the cloth goods would be sold, as well... | |
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All wear silk, and of the most fine and costly quality. The gala dresses and clothes of the women are so many and so excessive, that in no other kingdom of the world are found such... 