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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... received proofs from him of his hearty and most efficient interest in the prosecution of my historical labors ; and I now the more willingly pay this well - merited tribute to his deserts , that it must be exempt from all suspicion of ...
... received proofs from him of his hearty and most efficient interest in the prosecution of my historical labors ; and I now the more willingly pay this well - merited tribute to his deserts , that it must be exempt from all suspicion of ...
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... received an injury in one of my eyes , which deprived me of the sight of it . The other , soon after , was attacked by inflammation so severely that for some time I lost the sight of that also ; and , though it was subsequently restored ...
... received an injury in one of my eyes , which deprived me of the sight of it . The other , soon after , was attacked by inflammation so severely that for some time I lost the sight of that also ; and , though it was subsequently restored ...
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... received by Pedrarias Influence of Fernando de Luque Narrow Views of the Governor His subsequent History . Pizarro , Almagro , and Luque Famous Contract for discovering Peru Religious Tone assumed in it Motives of the Conquerors Luque's ...
... received by Pedrarias Influence of Fernando de Luque Narrow Views of the Governor His subsequent History . Pizarro , Almagro , and Luque Famous Contract for discovering Peru Religious Tone assumed in it Motives of the Conquerors Luque's ...
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... received by Pizarro His Message to the Inca De Soto's Expedition · His Accounts of the Indian Empire March towards Caxamalca Contradictory Information • Emissary to Atahuallpa • Effective Eloquence of Pizarro CHAPTER IV . SEVERE PASSAGE ...
... received by Pizarro His Message to the Inca De Soto's Expedition · His Accounts of the Indian Empire March towards Caxamalca Contradictory Information • Emissary to Atahuallpa • Effective Eloquence of Pizarro CHAPTER IV . SEVERE PASSAGE ...
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... received . Another legend speaks of certain white and bearded men , who , advancing from the shores of Lake Titicaca , established an ascendency over the natives and imparted to them the blessings of civilization . It may remind us of ...
... received . Another legend speaks of certain white and bearded men , who , advancing from the shores of Lake Titicaca , established an ascendency over the natives and imparted to them the blessings of civilization . It may remind us of ...
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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.