Excerpt from With Pizarro in Peru The Spaniards not only found along the shore valuable pearls, but received still more valuable information. There they stood around their cop per-colored leader and listened to his vague ao count of a land far to the south, where there was an abundance of gold, and saw a strange likeness of an animal, fashioned in clay, which resembled partly a camel, partly a sheep, the first image of a llama, of which the ruler of that distant country possessed whole herds. Among the listeners stood a ...
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Excerpt from With Pizarro in Peru The Spaniards not only found along the shore valuable pearls, but received still more valuable information. There they stood around their cop per-colored leader and listened to his vague ao count of a land far to the south, where there was an abundance of gold, and saw a strange likeness of an animal, fashioned in clay, which resembled partly a camel, partly a sheep, the first image of a llama, of which the ruler of that distant country possessed whole herds. Among the listeners stood a Spanish soldier who could neither read nor write, but whose nature was most courageous and his heart filled with a longing for gold and ambi tion for fame. He resolved to continue the work of his leader; he found adventurers who joined him, he fought his way for an entire year along the coast to the south, defied storm, hunger, and Indian arrows, until he reached the harbor of the most powerful old American kingdom. W'ith foolhardy courage, at the head of his weak force he penetrated into the interior of the land, into the very camp of the Inca or emperor of Peru, and took the ruler captive by treachery, subjugated the country, plundered it, and gave it up as prey to the rapacity of Spanish adventurers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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