History of the Conquest of Peru: With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas, Band 2

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Harper and brothers, 1848

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Seite 465 - Espanola : e ansimismo os daremos poder para que en nuestro nombre, durante el tiempo de vuestra gobernacion, hagais la encomienda de los indios de la dicha tierra, guardando en ella las instrucciones e ordenanzas que vos seran dadas.
Seite 153 - But it was left open, and the assailants, hurrying through to the inner court, still shouting their fearful battle-cry, were met by two domestics loitering in the yard. One of these they struck down. The other, flying in all haste towards the house, called out, "Help, help! the men of Chili are all coming to murder the marquess!
Seite 463 - Perú, fasta ducientas leguas de tierra por la misma costa, las cuales dichas dúdenlas leguas comienzan desde el pueblo que en lengua de Indios se dice Tenumpuela, e después le llamasteis Santiago, hasta llegar al pueblo de Chincha, que puede haber las dichas ducientas leguas de costa, poco mas o menos.
Seite 31 - ... warriors. The dusky lines of the Indian battalions stretched out to the very verge of the mountains; while, all around, the eye saw only the crests and waving banners of chieftains, mingled with rich panoplies of feather-work, which reminded some few who had served under Cortes of the military costume of the Aztecs.
Seite 414 - This is the head of the traitor Gonzalo Pizarro, who rebelled in Peru against his sovereign, and battled in the cause of tyranny and treason against the royal standard in the valley of Xaquixaguana.
Seite 481 - JUNE i8, 1535. [This agreement between these two celebrated captains, in which they bind themselves by solemn oaths to the observance of what would seem to be required by the most common principles of honesty and honor, is too characteristic of the men and the times to be omitted. The original exists in the archives at Simancas.] Nos D...
Seite 461 - ... obligamos de acudir con ello á vos el dicho don Fernando de Luque, y á quien en vuestro nombre le perteneciere y hubiere de haber, y les daremos cuenta con pago de todo ello cada y cuando que se nos pidiere, hecho el dicho descubrimiento y conquista y...
Seite 219 - Conquest, amuse themselves by hunting down the natives with bloodhounds for mere sport, or in order to train their dogs to the game ! * The most unbounded scope was given to licentiousness. The young maiden was torn without remorse from the arms of her family to gratify the passion of her brutal conqueror.2 The sacred houses of the Virgins of the Sun were broken open and violated, and the cavalier swelled his harem with a troop of Indian girls...
Seite xiii - Cuzco not long afterwards received the Papal sanction, prepared to enter on the duties of his office. A place was selected for the cathedral of his diocese, facing the plaza. A spacious monastery subsequently rose on the ruins of the gorgeous House of the Sun ; its walls were constructed of the ancient stones ; the altar was raised on the spot where shone the bright image of the Peruvian deity, and the cloisters of the Indian temple were trodden by the friars of St. Dominic. To make the metamorphosis...
Seite 470 - ... el día antes, y de venir solo, sin gente de guerra; a las cuales palabras y otras muchas que el...

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