Pizarro: or, The discovery and conquest of PeruJohn Mason, 1849 - 160 páginas |
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Pizarro: or, The discovery and conquest of Peru George CUBITT (Wesleyan Minister.) Vista completa - 1849 |
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Almagro Alonzo de Alvarado Alvarado appeared arms army arrived Atahuallpa avarice battle became body brothers Castro cavaliers Caxamarca character Christian civilization coast colonists command conquer conqueror conquest Cortes Cotopaxi Crown Cuzco death despatched difficulty discovery empire entered exist expedition Father Luque felt force Francisco Pizarro Gasca gold and silver Gonzalo Pizarro Governor Hernando Pizarro Herrada horses Huascar Huayna Capac hundred Inca Indians inhabitants Isthmus Juan Pizarro knew labours land laws leagues length Lima lofty Manco Manco Capac ment Mexicans Mexico Monarch moral mountains natives noble officers once orders Panama passion Peru Peruvian possession principles proceeded Quito racter reached received religion resolved royal Ruiz sailed San Miguel scarcely secure sent shore social condition soldiers soon Soto south latitude Spain Spaniards Spanish spirit success thought thousand tion toil troops Truxillo Tumbez valley Valverde Vela vessel Viceroy voyage wealth whole
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Página 20 - European scholar, the time was, when the ancient races of the continent were all plunged in deplorable barbarism; when they worshipped nearly every object in nature indiscriminately; made war their pastime, and feasted on the flesh of their slaughtered captives. The Sun, the great luminary and parent of mankind, taking compassion on their degraded condition, sent two of his children...
Página 59 - he said, ' on that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south.
Página 27 - We are filled with astonishment when we consider that these enormous masses were hewn from their native bed and fashioned into shape by a people ignorant of the use of iron ; that they were brought from quarries, from four to fifteen leagues...
Página 96 - Do you not see that while we stand here wasting our breath in talking with this dog, full of pride as he is, the fields are filling with Indians? Set on, at once: I absolve you.
Página 92 - One might have supposed them a company of martyrs about to lay down their lives in defense of their faith, instead of a licentious band of adventurers meditating one of the most atrocious acts of perfidy on the record of history!
Página 96 - Tell your comrades that they shall give me an account of their doings in my land. I will not go from here till they have made me full satisfaction for all the wrongs they have committed.
Página 19 - Ibid., page 133. fertility and beauty. Terraces were raised upon the steep sides of the Cordillera; and as the different elevations had the effect of difference of latitude, they exhibited in regular gradation every variety of vegetable form, from the stimulated growth of the tropics to the temperate products of a northern clime ; while flocks of llamas — the Peruvian sheep — wandered with their shepherds over the broad snow-covered wastes on the crests of the sierra, which rose above the limits...
Página 21 - The celestial pair, brother and sister, husband and wife, advanced along the high plains in the neighbourhood of Lake Titicaca, to about the sixteenth degree south. They bore with them a golden wedge, and were directed to take up their residence on the spot where the sacred emblem should without effort sink into the ground.
Página 20 - ... 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 plateaus, and towns and hamlets, clustering amidst orchards and widespreading gardens, seemed suspended in the air far above the ordinary elevation of the clouds.
Página 1 - Iberia? Do we see The robber and the murderer weak as we ? Thou, that hast wasted earth, and dared despise Alike the wrath and mercy of the skies, Thy pomp is in the grave, thy glory laid Low in the pits thine avarice has made.