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"Oh ah well," exclaimed the stern man, relaxing into a smile in spite of himself, as he observed the calm, quiet, earnest way in which that princess of the Incas applied herself to the reparation of that little hole.
Moreover, there were civilized communities in that part of the continent which the Incas had not subjugated, such as the Muyscas on the table-land of Bogota, north of Quito, who had a remarkable civil and religious organization, a temple of the sun built with stone columns, a regular system of computing time, a peculiar calendar, and who used small circular gold plates as coin.
Carried away by this ill-timed mania, I neglected my studies to compose poems, which certainly can have shown no great promise, to judge by a line of too many feet which became famous among my companions the beginning of an epic on the Incas: "O Inca! O roi infortune et malheureux!" In derision of such attempts, I was nicknamed the Poet, but mockery did not cure me.
"The Daughter of the Sun!" quoth Amyas; "then we have found the lost Incas after all." "We have found something," said Cary; "I only hope it may not be a mare's nest, like many another of our finding." "Or an adder's," said Yeo. "We must beware of treachery." "We must beware of no such thing," said Amyas, pretty sharply.
The reformation of the Incas is evidently not complete; if it had not been arrested by the arrival of the Spaniards it may be that the purifying agency of the new religion would have found much still to do. Enough, however, is seen to afford strong confirmation of the principle that religion gains infinitely in elevation when a national worship appears.
At many places where they landed they saw the great road of the Incas which traversed the sea-coast, often, indeed, lost in the volatile sands, where no road could be maintained, but rising into a broad and substantial causeway, as it emerged on a firmer soil. Such a provision for internal communication was in itself no slight monument of power and civilization.
Boston, April 2, 1847. History Of The Conquest Of Peru by William Hickling Prescott Introduction View Of The Civilization Of The Incas Physical Aspect Of The Country Sources Of Peruvian Civilization Empire Of The Incas Royal Family Nobility
So you would have left me, a daughter of the Incas, who have honored you above all other men, and gone away with a woman you say you do not love! Your heart is full of deceit, your mouth runs over with lies. You shall die; so shall the white woman and the black slave. Where are they? Bring them hither." The caciques and braves who were present stared at each other in consternation.
Holy Virgin! Are we Incas of Peru Atahualpas who can fill a hall with gold? Now, twenty thousand " "I will not pay one peso," said De Guardiola. His voice, low and vibrant, was as a warder thrown down. On the instant, all the length of the table, the hurried speech, the growing excitement, the interchange of taunt and bravado, ceased, and men leaned forward, waiting. The silence was remarkable.
Finally, there was nothing in his country whereof he had not the counterfeit in gold. Yea, and they say, that the Incas had a garden of pleasure in an island near Puna, where they went to recreate themselves when they would take the air of the sea, which had all kinds of garden-herbs, flowers, and trees of gold and silver, an invention and magnificence till then never seen.
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