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... elevation of an oblong form , forty feet high , three hundred long , and two hundred and sixty broad . The roof of the building. Bas relief at Palenque . Manco Capac and Mama Oello . 100 ANTIQUITIES OF CENTRAL AMERICA .
... elevation of an oblong form , forty feet high , three hundred long , and two hundred and sixty broad . The roof of the building. Bas relief at Palenque . Manco Capac and Mama Oello . 100 ANTIQUITIES OF CENTRAL AMERICA .
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... a small force , seized upon the Inca , or emperor , and treacherously put him to death . He then proceeded to subjugate the kingdom and reduce it to the Spanish authority . It remained as. Manco Capac and Mama Oello . INDIANS OF PEru,
... a small force , seized upon the Inca , or emperor , and treacherously put him to death . He then proceeded to subjugate the kingdom and reduce it to the Spanish authority . It remained as. Manco Capac and Mama Oello . INDIANS OF PEru,
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... Manco Capac taught the men the arts of agriculture , and his wife instructed the women in spinning , weaving , and other house- hold duties . Manco Capac , whose pride would acknowledge no less illustrious an ancestor than the sun ...
... Manco Capac taught the men the arts of agriculture , and his wife instructed the women in spinning , weaving , and other house- hold duties . Manco Capac , whose pride would acknowledge no less illustrious an ancestor than the sun ...
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... Manco Capac and his lineal successors estab- lished regulations so judicious , and laws so wise , governed with such ability , and reclaimed so many wild tribes from savage life , that , at the beginning of the sixteenth century , their ...
... Manco Capac and his lineal successors estab- lished regulations so judicious , and laws so wise , governed with such ability , and reclaimed so many wild tribes from savage life , that , at the beginning of the sixteenth century , their ...
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... Manco Capac not reaching above twenty - five miles from Cuzco , his capital : but it was gradually extended , rather for the benign purpose of spreading the blessings of peace and the arts than for conquest , until it embraced the great ...
... Manco Capac not reaching above twenty - five miles from Cuzco , his capital : but it was gradually extended , rather for the benign purpose of spreading the blessings of peace and the arts than for conquest , until it embraced the great ...
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The Manners, Customs, and Antiquities of the Indians of North and South America Samuel Griswold Goodrich Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1844 |
The Manners, Customs, and Antiquities of the Indians of North and ..., Volym 12 Samuel Griswold Goodrich Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1844 |
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Sida 263 - Within the paths of righteousness, ev'n for his own name's sake. *Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, yet will I fear none ill: For thou art with me; and thy rod and staff me comfort still.
Sida 99 - ... the face of a monument, and then to dig around and bring to light a fragment, a sculptured corner of which protruded from the earth. I leaned over with breathless anxiety while the Indians worked, and an eye, an ear, a foot, or a hand was disentombed; and when the machete rang against the chiselled stone, I pushed the Indians away, and cleared out the loose earth with my hands. The beauty of the sculpture, the solemn stillness of the woods, disturbed only by the scrambling of monkeys and the...
Sida 263 - My table Thou hast furnished In presence of my foes ; My head Thou dost with oil anoint, And my cup overflows. 5 Goodness and mercy all my life Shall surely follow me : And in God's house for evermore My dwelling-place shall be.
Sida 98 - It is impossible to describe the interest with which I explored these ruins. The ground was entirely new; there were no guide-books or guides; the whole was a virgin soil. We could not see ten yards before us, and never knew what we should stumble upon next. At one time we stopped to cut away branches and vines which concealed the...
Sida 38 - The lips and bosom of the infant were sprinkled with water, and "the Lord was implored to permit the holy drops to wash away the sin that was given to it before the foundation of the world; so that the child might be born anew.
Sida 303 - ... back ; by which he has the power of throwing himself up again, and changing to the other side of the horse if necessary. In this wonderful condition, he will hang whilst his horse is at fullest speed, carrying with him his bow and his shield, and also his long lance of fourteen feet in length, all or either of which he will wield upon his enemy as he passes ; rising and throwing his arrows over the horse's back, or with equal ease and equal success under the horse's neck...
Sida 329 - ... (on a level and beautiful prairie), which before had been strained tight and fixed, were seen waving and flapping in the wind, and in one minute more all were flat upon the ground. Their horses and dogs, of which they...
Sida 38 - Is this punishment intended, not for our reformation, but for our destruction?" Again, "Impart to us, out of thy great mercy, thy gifts, which we are not worthy to receive through our own merits".
Sida 96 - Egyptians ; one, displaced from its pedestal by enormous roots ; another locked in the close embrace of branches of trees, and almost lifted out of the earth; another, hurled to the ground, and bound down by huge vines and creepers ; and one standing, with its altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around, seemingly to shade and shroud it, as a sacred thing in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people.
Sida 86 - The hair is divided, and falls down behind in two long plaits, fastened at the top by a bow of ribbon and a flower. In this dress there is no alteration from what they wore in former days; saving that the women of a higher class wore a dress of finer cotton with more embroidery, and a loose garment over all, resembling a priest's surplice, when the weather was cold. Among the men, the introduction of trousers is Spanish — but they still wear the...