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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
CHAPTER III. THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO AND PERU. Cortez?His
Character?Montezuma?The Characteristics of th Mexicans?Scenes in
the Conquest?The overthrow of the Mexican and commencement of the
Spanish rule?Peru?Its conquest by Pizarro?The results?Influence of
the Jesuits. The last chapter marks a new era in the history of
Catholicism in America. The Indian race that peopled the islands
had disappeared before the onward march of cruelty and bloodshed.
Las Casas, to preserve the remnant of this race, prevailed upon his
sovereign to plant slavery upon the islands. A continent,
stretching from the northern polar circle to a high southern
latitude, above fifteen hundred miles beyond the furthest extremity
of the Old World, presented at once a range for thought, a field
for conjecture, and an object for speculation, that startled Europe
from a lethargic slumber, and bade her sons go forth in quest of
the marvelous and the real. Theories vanished before facts, dreams
were eclipsed by realities, and hopes were oft-times more than
realized. Explorers by sea and land rivaled each other in
discoveries. They saw nature carrying on her operations upon a
larger scale, and with a bolder hand. A peculiar magnificence
enveloped everything with its charms. America was found to be not
only remarkable for its magnitude, position, and mineral wealth,
but for the sublimity and grandeur of its sceneandy.
Loftiermountains cast their shadows upon more fertile plains, and
Europe was outdone in lakes and rivers, in climate and productions.
The plain of Quito, which is but the base of sky-piercing peaks, is
higher above the sea than the top of the Pyrenees; while the
stupendous ridge of the Andes, whose bold, bare fronts, though
exposed to the rays of a tropical sun, are frosted with eternal
snow, b...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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