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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and genius which, with means so inadequate, triumphed over all the difficulties created by unforeseen circumstances and a resistance obstinate and heroic. But while to subdue the Mexicans demanded the abilities of a Cortes, the subjugation of the Peruvians required only the unblushing perfidy and rude daring of a Pizarro. Little interest attaches to the historical detail of this splendid, yet inglorious conquest, which proved fatal alike to the victors and the victims. To the reader desirous of tracing its progress, the pages of Robertson will supply the requisite information. We can only advert to the leading events. The first information respecting the countries bordering upon the Pacific, was obtained by Balboa, the Spanish governor of Darien, in 1512. A young cacique, on witnessing with astonishment the furious contention of the Spaniards about the division of some gold, offered to conduct them to a region where the meanest utensils were made of the precious metal. In reply to their eager inquiries respecting its situation, he informed them, that, at the distance of six suns towards the south, there was another sea, on the shores of which that wealthy kingdom was situated. This was the first information the Spaniards had received concerning the great southern ocean, from which they were separated only by an isthmus about sixty miles in breadth. It occupied them more than five-and-twenty days, hwvever, to force their way through the woods and lofty mountains which barred their progress; but, at length, the welcome sight of the vast ocean from the summit of a mountain near Panama, repaid the adventurers for their toils and sufferings. They held on to the shore with alacrity; and Bulboa, advancing up to the middle in the waves, with his sword and buckler, took possession of ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217247818 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217247814 |
| Weight | 0.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In |
| List Price | $19.84 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 250 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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