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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... waters of the Pacific ; where mountain is seen to rise above mountain , and Chimborazo , with its glorious canopy of ... water which roll down the eastern sides of the Cordilleras into the Atlantic . The pre- cipitous steeps of the ...
... waters of the Pacific ; where mountain is seen to rise above mountain , and Chimborazo , with its glorious canopy of ... water which roll down the eastern sides of the Cordilleras into the Atlantic . The pre- cipitous steeps of the ...
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... water , they built the most beautiful of their palaces . Here , when wearied with the dust and toil of the city , they loved to retreat , and solace themselves with the society of their favorite concubines , wander- ing amidst groves ...
... water , they built the most beautiful of their palaces . Here , when wearied with the dust and toil of the city , they loved to retreat , and solace themselves with the society of their favorite concubines , wander- ing amidst groves ...
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... water away from a neighbor's land into one's own , burning a house , were all severely punished . To burn a bridge was death . The Inca allowed no obstacle to those facilities of com- munication so essential to the maintenance of public ...
... water away from a neighbor's land into one's own , burning a house , were all severely punished . To burn a bridge was death . The Inca allowed no obstacle to those facilities of com- munication so essential to the maintenance of public ...
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... water , were conducted through rings or holes cut in immense buttresses of stone raised on the opposite banks of the river and there secured to heavy pieces of timber . Several of these enormous cables , bound together , formed a bridge ...
... water , were conducted through rings or holes cut in immense buttresses of stone raised on the opposite banks of the river and there secured to heavy pieces of timber . Several of these enormous cables , bound together , formed a bridge ...
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... waters that foamed and tumbled many a fathom beneath . Yet these light and fragile fabrics were crossed without fear by the Peruvians , and are still retained by the Spaniards over those streams which , from the depth or impetuosity of ...
... waters that foamed and tumbled many a fathom beneath . Yet these light and fragile fabrics were crossed without fear by the Peruvians , and are still retained by the Spaniards over those streams which , from the depth or impetuosity 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.