 | Early English newspapers - 1847 - 760 pages
...only in the great House of the Sun ; but in the inferior temples which swarmed in the capital. * * * In a cavern near the city they found a number of vases...merely to see,' says one of the conquerors, with some naivett, ' was truly a great satisfaction.' The gold was probably thin, for the figures were all as... | |
 | English essays - 1847 - 758 pages
...only in the great House of the Sun ; but in the inferior temples which swarmed in the capital. * • * In a cavern near the city they found a number of vases...gold, richly embossed with the figures of serpents, locusis, and other animals. Among the spoil were four golden llamas, and ten or twelve statues of women,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1848 - 566 pages
...rapacious conquerors, and they occasionally stumbled on a mine of wealth that rewarded their labors. ': In a cavern near the city they found a number of vases...satisfaction.' The gold was probably thin, for the figures were all as large as life ; and several of them, being reserved for the royal fifth, were not recast, but... | |
 | Charles De Wolf Brownell - Indians of North America - 1853 - 732 pages
...compel a disclosure of their secret places of deposit. "In a cavern near the city," says Prescott, "they found a number of vases of pure gold, richly...merely to see,' says one of the conquerors, with some natvet6, 'was truly a great satisfaction.' " Upon the march, no small amount of booty had been secured:... | |
 | Charles De Wolf Brownell - Indians - 1856 - 742 pages
...compel a disclosure of their secret places of deposit. "In a cavern near the city," says Prescott, "they found ' a number of vases of pure gold, richly...merely to see,' says one of the conquerors, with some naivtii'; ' was truly a great satisfaction.' " Upon the march, no small amount of booty had been secured:... | |
 | Charles De Wolf Brownell - Indians - 1857 - 736 pages
...compel a disclosure of their secret places of deposit. "In a cavern near the city," says Prescott, "they found a number of vases of pure gold, richly...of the conquerors, with some naivete, ' was" truly a g>9$t satisfaction.' " Upon the march, no small amount of booty had been secured: "In one place,... | |
 | Charles De Wolf Brownell - Indians - 1860 - 736 pages
...compel a disclosure of their secret places of deposit. " In a cavern near the city," says Prescott, " they found a number of vases of pure gold, richly...with some naivete, ' was truly a great satisfaction.' " Upon the march, no small amount of booty had been secured : " In one place, for example, they met... | |
 | John Roy Musick - 1895 - 440 pages
...unexplored, and many of the natives were tortured to make them reveal the hiding-places of their treasure. In a cavern near the city they found a number of vases...llamas and ten or twelve statues of women, some of pure gold, others of silver, all figures being life-size. Several of these were reserved for the royal... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...rapacious Conquerors; and they occasionally stumbled on a mine of wealth that rewarded their labors. In a cavern near the city they found a number of vases...satisfaction." The gold was probably thin, for the figures were all as large as life; and several of them, being reserved for the royal fifth, were not recast, but... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 498 pages
...rapacious Conquerors ; and they occasionally stumbled on a mine of wealth that rewarded their labors. In a cavern near the city they found a number of vases...satisfaction." The gold was probably thin, for the figures were all as large as life ; and several of them, being reserved for the royal fifth, were not recast, but... | |
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In a cavern near the city they found a number of vases of pure gold, richly embossed with the figures of serpents, locusts and other animals. Among the spoil were four golden llamas and ten or twelve statues of women, some of gold, others of silver, '... 
