Word: alejo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...descriptions or picturesque details, The Spanish Main nevertheless contains several compact narratives that readers are likely to find unfamiliar. One of these deals with the desperate race to find the Inca Empire, whose fame had spread through South America, had even reached Europe. About 1520 a Portuguese soldier named Alejo Garcia led an expedition across Brazil and Paraguay into the Inca country, was killed by his Indian allies on his return. Backed by a shady ring of international speculators, Sebastian Cabot led another group up the Parana River to Paraguay in 1528, sent the representatives of his backers for more...
Mexico. Floods, built up by torrential rains, swept down the San Alejo River in Vera Cruz, engulfed without warning eight women washing clothes on the river bank, seven children playing beside them. Other floods swamped suburbs of Mexico City, made 1,000 homeless, drowned two boys...