 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1847 - 350 pages
...Indians? Set on at once! I absolve you."1 Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired...halls in which they were concealed, they poured into thep/aza, horse and foot, each in his own dark column, and threw themselves into the midst of the Indian... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 610 pages
...with Indians ? Set on at once ; I absolve yon-.' Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a while scarf iu the air, the appointed signal. The fatal...rushing from the avenues of the great halls in which »hey were concealed-, they poured into the plaza, horse and foot, each in his own dark column, and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 550 pages
...given in Mr. Prescott's own words. " Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired...the city, as, rushing from the avenues of the great balls in which they were concealed, they poured into the plaza, horse and foot, each in his own dark... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 640 pages
...Pizarra is thus vividly described : " Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired...' St. Jago and at them ! ' It was answered by the battlecj-y of every Spaniard in the city, as rushing from the avenues of the great halls in which they... | |
 | 1847 - 560 pages
...birds, and studded with shining plates " Pizarro saw that the hour had come, He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired...Spanish captain and his followers shouted the old war cry of ' St. Jago and at them !' It was answered by the battle cry of every Spaniard in the city,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1847 - 714 pages
...lndians? Set on at once! l absolve you."1 Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired...springing into the square, the Spanish captain and bis followers shouted the old war-cry of " St. Jago and at them !" lt was answered by the battle-cry... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1855 - 580 pages
...ol any attempt to rouse the pasaioc• of his comrades. the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired...them." It was answered by the battle-cry of every Span iard in the city, as, rushing from the avenues of the great halls in which they were concealed,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pages
...Indians J Set on at once ! I absolve you." Pizarro saw that the hour had come. Ho waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired...war-cry of " St. Jago and at them ! " It was answered by th: Dattlc-cry of every Spamard in the city, as, rushing from the avenues of the great halls in which... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...Indians 1 Set on at once ! I absolve you." Pizarro saw that the hour had com*. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired...springing into the square, the Spanish captain and hi? followers shouted the old war-cry of " St. Jago and at them ! " It was answered by the battle-cry... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...perpetrators. Without a word of indignation, he tells us that his hero saw that ' the hour had come ; ' that ' his followers shouted the old war-cry of " St Jago and at them ! " ' that the struggle (V) ' became fiercer than ever around the royal litter ;' and so forth —... | |
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Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired from the fortress. Then springing into the square, the Spanish captain and his followers shouted the old war-cry of 
