History of the Conquest of Peru: With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1848 - 490 pages |
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Acosta adventurers Almagro American ancient Annales año authority Balboa Barcia capital cavalier character chasquis Cieza Cieza de Leon civilization coast colony Conq conquerors conquest continent Cronica curacas Cuzco deity del Peru Descub Diego de Almagro discovery distance empire enterprise expedition favourable fortunes furnished Garcilasso gente gold and silver golden governor havia Herrera Hist historian Huayna Capac Incas Indian Indios inhabitants island labours land Luque magnificent maize manner ment monarch Montenegro Montesinos mountains nations natives nature Ondegardo Pachacamac Panamá Pedrarias Pedro Pizarro person Peru Peruvian Piru Prim provinces quarters quipus Quito race Real Relacion Sumaria royal rude Ruiz Sarmiento seemed señores shewed shore sovereign Spaniards Spanish spirit tains temple tenian tierra tion tribes Truxillo Tumbez Tupac Inca Yupanqui ubi supra vessel viii voyage waters Xerez Zarate
Popular passages
Page 381 - ... charm which might have held the Peruvians together was dissolved. Every man thought only of his own safety. Even the soldiery encamped on the adjacent fields took the alarm, and, learning the fatal tidings, were seen flying in every direction before their pursuers, who in the heat of triumph showed no touch of mercy. At length night, more pitiful than man, threw her friendly mantle over the fugitives, and the scattered troops of Pizarro rallied once more at the sound of the trumpet in the bloody...
Page 175 - ... independence religious and political. To secure this, they were content to earn a bare subsistence by a life of frugality and toil. They asked nothing from the soil but the reasonable returns of their own labor. No golden visions threw a deceitful halo around their path and beckoned them onwards through seas of blood to the subversion of an unoffending dynasty.
Page 369 - 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!
Page 423 - Tis that by which the sun and moon, At their own weapons, are outdone : That makes knights-errant fall in trances, And lay about 'em in romances : Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call : For what is worth in any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring...
Page 373 - Others were clad in pure white, bearing hammers or maces of silver or copper ; and the guards, together with those in immediate attendance on the prince, were distinguished by a rich azure livery, and a profusion of gay ornaments, while the large pendants attached to the ears indicated the Peruvian noble. Elevated high above his vassals came the Inca Atahuallpa, borne on a sedan or open litter, on which was a sort of throne made of massiv^ gold of inestimable value.
Page 42 - The whole territory of the empire was divided into three parts, one for the Sun, another for the Inca, and the last for the people. Which of the three was the largest is doubtful. The proportions differed materially in different provinces. The distribution, indeed, was made on the same general principle, as each new conquest was added to the monarchy ; but the proportion varied according to the amount of population, and the greater or less amount of land consequently required for the support of the...
Page 60 - The system of communication through their dominions was still further improved by the Peruvian sovereigns, by the introduction of posts, in the same manner as was done by the Aztecs. The Peruvian posts, however, established on all the great routes that conducted to the capital, were on a much more extended plan than those in Mexico. All along these routes, small buildings were erected, at the distance of less than five miles asunder, in each of which a number of runners, or chasquis, as they were...
Page 57 - 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. In some places, where the ravines had been filled up with masonry, the mountain torrents, wearing on it for ages, have gradually eaten a way through the base, and left the superincumbent mass — such is the cohesion of the materials — still spanning the valley like an arch...
Page 476 - Some brought a still higher price. Every article rose in value, as gold and silver, the representatives of all, declined. Gold and silver, in short, seemed to be the only things in Cuzco that were not wealth. Yet there were some few wise enough to return contented with their present gains to their native country. Here their riches brought them consideration and competence, and, while they excited the envy of their countrymen, stimulated them to seek their own fortunes in the like path of adventure.
Page 175 - ... by the pagan idolater or the fanatical Moslem. The burning of the infidel was a sacrifice acceptable to Heaven, and the conversion of those who survived amply atoned for the foulest offences. It is a melancholy and mortifying consideration...