Cuzco; A Journey to the Ancient Capital of Peru

With an Account of the History, Language, Literature, and Antiquities of the Incas, and Lima: A Visit to the Capital and Provinces of Modern Peru; With a Sketch of the Viceregal Government, History of the Republic, and a Review of the Literature and Socie

Clements R. Markham

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. There are few more attractive periods of history, than that which treats of the adventures of the lawless conquerors of the New World, who shattered at a blow the fabrics of stately empires, and so utterly prostrated the once thriving civilised communities of Peru, Mexico, and Bogota, that a century after the arrival of the Spaniards, scarce a vestige of them remained.<br><br>Their origin, obscured by the mist of ages, their rise comparatively rapid, and their fall sudden, and for ever.<br><br>In the masterly pages of Prescott have been recorded, in glowing language, the deeds of those stony-hearted warriors who uprooted them; and every one knows the history of Cortez and Montezuma, of the courageous Quatimozin, of Pizarro and his strangled victim, and all the wonderful, almost incredible tales of Spanish prowess.

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