Relation of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru Volume 1-2 Paperback - 2012
by Pedro Pizarro
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...are called Carnigas, and Aullagas and Quillacas, wear hats like these worked in coloured wools. The Charcas, who lie beyond, wear their hair caught up and bound with little nets around it made of cords of coloured wool and having a cord which passes under the chin. Almost all these tribes have one language, unless, perchance, these Charcas differ from the rest to some extent. And others, who call themselves Amparaes, likewise differ in language. In this land there were many silversmiths, and they were very skillful artificers, and they all lived in Cuzco. The natives of this kingdom were known by their clothes, for each province has a costume different from the rest, and they hold it to be an affront to wear a costume not belonging to the wearer's province. DOCUMENTS AND NARRATTVES CONCERNING THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF LATIN AMERICA PUBLISHED BY THE CORTES SOCIETY NEW YORK NUMBER FOUR VOLUME II Edition limited to 160 copies of which ten are on hand made paper This copy it Number RELATION OF THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF THE KINGDOMS OF PERU BY PEDRO PIZARRO IN TWO VOLUMES Volume II TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH AND ANNOTATED BY PHILIP AINSWORTH MEANS THE CORTES SOCIETY NEW YORK 191 COCKATNE, BOSTON RELATION continued Relation Of The Discovery And Conquest or The Kingdoms Of Peru, And Of The GovernMent And Arrangements Which The NaTives Of Them Formerly Had, And Of The Treasures Which Were Found Therein, And Of The Other Events Which Have Taken Place In Those Realms Up To The Day On Which The Relation Was Signed By Pedro Pizarro, A Conqueror And Settler Of Those Said Kingdoms, And A Citizen Of The City Of Arequipa, In The YEAR 1571 VOLUME II The Marquis, having set out from Cuzco, went to Xauxa in order to found there a city of Spaniards, and there he found Sot...
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- Title Relation of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru Volume 1-2
- Author Pedro Pizarro
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 94
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Rarebooksclub.com
- Date 2012-05
- ISBN 9781235937859 / 1235937852
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.19 in (24.61 x 18.90 x 0.48 cm)
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