The Land of the Incas and the City of the Sun: The Story of Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of PeruEstes and Lauriat, 1885 - 256 strani |
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The Land of the Incas and the City of the Sun: Or, The Story of Francisco ... William Henry Davenport Adams Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1883 |
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adventure Alcalde Almagrists Almagro Alonzo de Alvarado Alvarado arms army arrived Atahuallpa attack Balboa brigantine brother caciques captain Castile cavaliers Caxamalca Chili Chilicuchima coast commander comrades conquered conqueror conquest of Peru Cortes courage crossed Cuzco Darien death defended despatched Diego Emperor enemy enter expedition favour feet fertile fifty followers force fortress Francisco Pizarro gold Gonzalo Pizarro Governor hands hastened Hernando Pizarro honour horsemen horses Huascar Huayna Capac hundred Inca Inca's Indians Juan de Rada Juan Pizarro King King's fifth land leader leagues Luque Manco Manco Capac Marquis mountains natives night noble obtained Ojeda Orellana Orgoñez palace Panama Pedrarias Pedro Peruvians pesos Pizarrists Prescott prisoner provisions Quito received reinforcements Reyes river royal sailed seemed sent ships shore silver soldiers Soto Spain Spaniards Spanish stone sword temple territory tion took town treasures Tumbez valley Valverde VICENTE DE VALVERD wounded Xauxa
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Stran 76 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Stran 36 - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Stran 254 - Pizarro here was born ; a greater name The list of glory boasts not. Toil and pain, Famine, and hostile elements, and hosts Embattled, failed to check him in his course ; Not to be wearied, not to be deterred, Not to be overcome.
Stran 216 - The appalling sounds which they had heard for the distance of six leagues were rendered yet more oppressive to the spirits by the gloomy stillness of the surrounding forests. The rude warriors were filled with sentiments o'f awe. Not a bark dimpled the waters ; no living thing was to be seen but the wild tenants of the wilderness, the unwieldy boa, and the loathsome alligator basking on the borders of the stream.
Stran 60 - I cannot forbear to commend the patient virtue of the Spaniards : we seldom or never find that any nation hath endured so many misadventures and miseries as the Spaniards have done, in their Indian discoveries ; yet persisting in their enterprises with an invincible constancy, they have annexed to their kingdom so many goodly provinces, as bury the remembrance of all dangers past.
Stran 224 - Extravagant as those tales were, they gave rise to an opinion, that a region abounding with gold, distinguished by the name of El Dorado, and a community of Amazons, were to be found in this part of the new world ; and such is the propensity of mankind to believe what is wonderful, that it has been slowly and with difficulty that reason and observation have exploded those fables. The voyage, however, even when stripped of every romantic...
Stran 246 - Francisco de Chaves to make fast the door. But that officer, who did not retain so much presence of mind as to obey this prudent order, running to the top of the stair-case, wildly asked the conspirators what they meant, and whither they were going P Instead of answering, they stabbed him to the heart, and burst into the hall.
Stran 132 - Leguizano, who had received as his share of the booty the image of the Sun, which, raised on a plate of burnished gold, spread over the walls in a recess of the great temple, and which, for some reason or other, — perhaps, because of its superior fineness,— was not recast like the other ornaments. This rich prize the spendthrift lost in a single night; whence it came to be a proverb in Spain, Juega el Sol antes que amanezca, " Play away the Sun before sunrise.
Stran 38 - ... thoughts which the same action will continue to present and call up in the minds of others to the end, it may be, of all time. And so a remarkable event may go on acquiring more and more significance. In this case, our knowledge that the Pacific, which Vasco Nunez then beheld, occupies more than...
Stran 38 - And through the storm of poisoned darts From many an ambush shed. He gained the turret crag — alone — And wept! to see below, An ocean, boundless and unknown, Three hundred years ago. And while he raised upon that height The banner of his lord, The mighty purpose grasped him still, As still he grasped his sword.