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" when the other soldiers were reposing, I was tiring myself by writing. Neither fatigue, nor the ruggedness of the country, nor the mountains and rivers, nor intolerable hunger and suffering have ever been sufficient to obstruct my two duties ; namely,... "
The Discovery of America: With Some Account of Ancient America and the ... - Page 304
by John Fiske - 1892
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Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society

1883 - 320 pages
...things that 1 See my Translation, p. 335. 3 My Translation, p. 40. were to be seen in the new world.1 " Oftentimes when the other soldiers were reposing,...and following my flag and my captain without fault." In 1547 he joined the President Gasca in his march to Cuzco, and was present at the final rout of Gonzalo...
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Narrative and Critical History of America: Spanish explorations in America ...

Justin Winsor - 1886 - 662 pages
...an account of the strange things that were to be seen in the new world. " Oftentimes," he wrote, " when the other soldiers were, reposing, I was tiring...and following my flag and my captain without fault." In 1547 he joined the president Gasca, and was present at the final rout of Gonzalo Pizarro. He was...
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Narrative and Critical History of America, Volume 2

Justin Winsor - 1886 - 684 pages
...an account of the strange things that were to be seen in the new world. " Oftentimes," he wrote, " when the other soldiers were reposing, I was tiring...and following my flag and my captain without fault." In 1547 he joined the president Gasca, and was present at the final rout of Gonzalo Pizarro. He was...
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Narrative and Critical History of America: Aboriginal America. 1889

Justin Winsor - 1889 - 542 pages
...in the New World, at an early period of his service as a soldier. " Neither fatigue," he tells us, " nor the ruggedness of the country, nor the mountains...and following my flag and my captain without fault." He finished the First Part of his chronicle in September, 1550, when he was thirty-two years of age....
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History of the Conquest of Peru, Volume 3

William Hickling Prescott - 1904 - 436 pages
...when the author had reached only the age of thirty-two. It appeared at Seville in 1553, and the * [" Oftentimes, when the other soldiers were reposing,...and rivers, nor intolerable hunger and suffering, had ever been sufficient to obstruct my two duties, namely, writing and following my flag and my captain...
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Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, Volume 8

Geographical Society of Philadelphia - 1910 - 384 pages
...accurate observer, Cieza de Leon. His journal, begun in 1541, thus explains itself: " Ofttimes when other soldiers were reposing, I was tiring myself...and following my flag and my captain without fault." The following paragraphs, while not continuous, all describe about the same region : " From Tumbez...
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The Incas of Peru

Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1911 - 482 pages
...another place he says : ' Oftentimes when the other soldiers were sleeping, I was tiring myself in writing. Neither fatigue nor the ruggedness of the...and following my flag and my captain without fault.' Cieza de Leon made his way by land to Quito, and then travelled all over Peru collecting information....
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Quito to Bogotá

Arthur Clifford Veatch - 1917 - 426 pages
...his prologue he says of his work: "What I have written here is concerning true and important things. The attempt savours of temerity in so unlearned a...and following my flag and my captain without fault." He began the writing of his narrative when he was in his twenty-second year, after he had been a soldier...
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Spanish Colonial Literature in South America

Bernard Moses - 1922 - 752 pages
...Cauca river. In the dedication of one of his works to the king he thus made reference to his zeal: "Oftentimes when the other soldiers were reposing,...and following my flag and my captain without fault." President Gasca's call for loyal troops to assist in suppressing the rebellion led by Gonzalo Pizarro,...
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Spanish Colonial Literature in South America

Bernard Moses - 1922 - 748 pages
...Cauca river. In • the dedication of one of his works to the king he thus made reference to his zeal: "Oftentimes when the other soldiers were ; reposing,...and following my flag and my captain without fault." President Gasca's call for loyal troops to i assist in suppressing the rebellion led by ; Gonzalo Pizarro,...
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