History of the Conquest of Peru: With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas, Band 1J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1874 |
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... Peruvian Empire Its Topographical Aspect Unfavorable to Husbandry Natural Impediments overcome Source of Civilization Children of the Sun • • PAGE • 3 Other Traditions . Their Uncertainty Conquests of the Incas City of Cuzco . Fortress ...
... Peruvian Empire Its Topographical Aspect Unfavorable to Husbandry Natural Impediments overcome Source of Civilization Children of the Sun • • PAGE • 3 Other Traditions . Their Uncertainty Conquests of the Incas City of Cuzco . Fortress ...
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... Peruvian Army Arms and Armor • Military Quarters and Magazines Lenient Policy in War Religion of the Conquered Nations Disposition of the Conquered Territory Quichua Language Mitimaes • Unity of Purpose in Peruvian Institutions Domestic ...
... Peruvian Army Arms and Armor • Military Quarters and Magazines Lenient Policy in War Religion of the Conquered Nations Disposition of the Conquered Territory Quichua Language Mitimaes • Unity of Purpose in Peruvian Institutions Domestic ...
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... Peruvian Architecture Houses Their Simplicity of Construction Adaptation to Climate • Comparison between the Inca and Aztec Races In Policy and Religion In Science Peruvian and Eastern Empires The Incas perfect Despots Careful of the ...
... Peruvian Architecture Houses Their Simplicity of Construction Adaptation to Climate • Comparison between the Inca and Aztec Races In Policy and Religion In Science Peruvian and Eastern Empires The Incas perfect Despots Careful of the ...
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... Peruvian sheep - wandered with their shepherds over the broad , snow - covered wastes on the crests of the sierra , which rose beyond the limits of cultivation . An industrious population settled along the lofty regions . of the ...
... Peruvian sheep - wandered with their shepherds over the broad , snow - covered wastes on the crests of the sierra , which rose beyond the limits of cultivation . An industrious population settled along the lofty regions . of the ...
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... Peruvian princes afford an honorable , though not altogether unsuspicious , tribute to the excellence of their characters . A * superiority over the surrounding tribes . Such is the pleasing SOURCES OF PERUVIAN CIVILIZATION . 9.
... Peruvian princes afford an honorable , though not altogether unsuspicious , tribute to the excellence of their characters . A * superiority over the surrounding tribes . Such is the pleasing SOURCES OF PERUVIAN CIVILIZATION . 9.
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Acosta adventurers Almagro America ancient Annales año Atahuallpa authority Aztecs Barcia capital cavalier Caxamalca character Cieza Cieza de Leon civilization coast commander Conq Conquerors Conquest continent Cordilleras Cronica curacas Cuzco deity del Peru discovery distance empire enterprise eran expedition festivals furnished Garcilasso gente havia Hernando Pizarro Herrera Hist historian Huascar Huayna Capac Incas Indian Indios inhabitants institutions labors land Luque maize Manco Capac manner ment Mexicans monarch Montesinos mountains nations natives nature nobles Ondegardo Pachacamac Panamá peculiar Pedrarias Pedro Pizarro Pérou person Peru Peru.-VOL Peruvian Piru Prim primer Descub prince provinces quarters quipus Quito race Real Relacion del primer Relacion sumaria religion royal Sarmiento seems Señor shore sovereign Spaniards Spanish spirit temple tenian tierra tion tribes Truxillo Tumbez ubi supra vessel Viracocha voyage worship writer Xerez
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Seite 237 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; Nor lose for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Seite 66 - Its breadth scarcely exceeded twenty feet. It was built of heavy flags of freestone, and in some parts, at least, covered with a bituminous cement, which time has made harder than the stone itself.
Seite 376 - Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines, That on the high equator ridgy rise...
Seite 404 - Everything was conducted with admirable order. The monarch was permitted to traverse the plaza in silence, and not a Spaniard was to be seen. When some five or six thousand of his people had entered the place, Atahuallpa halted, and, turning round with an inquiring look, demanded,
Seite 102 - All the plate, the ornaments, the utensils of every description, appropriated to the uses of religion, were of gold or silver. Twelve immense vases of the latter metal stood on the floor of the great saloon, filled with grain of the Indian corn: the censers for the perfumes, the ewers which held the water for sacrifice, the pipes which conducted it through subterraneous channels into the buildings, the...
Seite 65 - One of these roads passed over the grand plateau, and the other along the lowlands on the borders of the ocean. The former was much the more difficult achievement, from the character of the country. It was conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow; galleries were...
Seite 408 - Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air — the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired from the fortress. Then, springing into the square, the Spanish captain and his followers shouted the old war-cry of " St. Jago and at them !" It was answered by the battle-cry of every Spaniard in the city, as rushing from the avenues of the...
Seite 411 - Let no one, who values his life, 4 0 strike at the Inca;" and, stretching out his arm to shield him, received a wound on the hand from one of his own men, — the only wound received by a Spaniard in the action. The struggle now became fiercer than ever round the royal litter. It reeled more and more, and at length several of the nobles who supported it having been slain, it was overturned, and the Indian prince would have come with violence to the ground, had not his fall been broken by the efforts...
Seite 193 - ... romance that stimulated still higher the sensitive fancies of his countrymen and nourished the chimerical sentiments of an age of chivalry. They listened with attentive ears to tales of Amazons which seemed to realize the classic legends of antiquity, to stories of Patagonian giants, to flaming pictures of an El Dorado where the sands sparkled with gems and golden pebbles as large as birds' eggs were dragged in nets out of the rivers.
Seite 507 - The time came when the grain would have been of far more value. Yet the amount of treasure in the capital did not equal the sanguine expectations that had been formed by the Spaniards. But the deficiency was supplied by the plunder which they had collected at various places on their march.