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It was the tale often repeated in the history of Spanish enterprise. A few, more lucky than the rest, stumble on some unexpected prize, and hundreds, attracted by their success, press forward in the same path. But the rich spoil which lay on the surface has been already swept away by the first comers, and those who follow are to win treasure by long-protracted and painful exertion.
— Oct 11, 2013 09:12PM
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[Gonzalo] Pizarro could not discern, that under this modest exterior lay a moral power, stronger than his own steel-clad battalions, which, operating silently on public opinion ... was even now undermining his strength, like a subterraneous channel eating away the foundations of some stately edifice, that stands secure in its pride of place!
— Oct 13, 2013 09:50PM
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There is something in the possession of superior strength most dangerous, in a moral view, to its possessor. Brought in contact with semi-civilized man, the European, with his endowments and effective force so immeasurably superior, holds him as little higher than the brute, and as born equally for his service.
— Oct 12, 2013 09:40PM
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Atahuallpa was not one of those to whom, in the language of the Grecian bard, "the Gods are willing to reveal themselves." He had not read the handwriting on the heavens. The small speck, which the clear-sighted eye of his father has discerned on the distant verge of the horizon, though little noticed by Atahuallpa ... had now risen high towards the zenith.
— Oct 10, 2013 09:51PM
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It might have gone hard with the Spaniards, hotly pressed by their resolute enemy so superior in numbers, but for a ludicrous accident reported as happening to one of the cavaliers. This was a fall from his horse, which so astonished the barbarians, who were not prepared for this division of what seemed one and the same being into two that they fell back.
— Oct 09, 2013 09:37PM
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Many of these beneficent works of the Incas were suffered to go to decay by their Spanish conquerors. In some spots, the waters are still left to flow in their dark, subterraneous channels, whose windings and whose sources have been alike unexplored.
— Oct 08, 2013 09:07PM
