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Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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tention away from quietly settling downto peaceful employments and improving the coun-try, and for long years the vain hunt for golddrew men from Europe and led them round thecoast, and up the rivers, in all directions, everexploring and opening up new ground, but seldomsettling down in content. Missionaries came out from Europe to teachthe Indians the Christian faith from the first;but settling down and working hard, whether inthe fields or in the mines, as they were discov-ered, did not suit the races who had ever beenfree to wander over the wide plains and gaintheir food without effort, and the Indians be-came fewer and fewer in numbers as time went on. THE MAN WHO WON A GREAT EMPIREWITH A LITTLE ARMY It was in 1526 that Pizarro, a bold adventurer,with great experience of the country, determinedto prove for himself whether the rumors of gold,and of the existence of civilized people in thehigh valleys of the Andes, were true or not. Thedeeds of Cortes in Mexico were breathlessly ex-
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< Jo ca Z O uT — 2 H u <u <z az < o < »93 294 SOUTH AMERICA OF YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY citing and daring, but those of Pizarro matchedthem. It is a deeply graphic story—how he plannedhis expedition and equipped his little band of fol-lowers ; how he dealt treacherously with the na-tives and with their ruler, the Inca; and how,after many difficulties and much endurance, heclimbed up the mountains from the Pacific side.Like those of Cortes, his horses and little can-nons brought amazement to those who had neverseen them before. One hundred and sixty-eightSpaniards pushing into an unknown, difficult,mountainous country, of rumored riches, civiliza-tion, and great resources, seems a foolhardy featindeed, but it succeeded. All round about Lake Titicaca and Cuzco, andthe valleys and plateaus of the Central Andes, arefound the remains of irrigation works, temples,palaces, and burial-places that belonged to thehighly civilized people the Spaniards found whenthey rea

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