South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure. Cyrus Townsend Brady
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Cyrus Townsend Brady
South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664599193
Table of Contents
PART I SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS
PART II OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE
PART I SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS
Panama and the Knights-Errant of Colonization
II. The Don Quixote of Discoveries and His Rival
"Ojeda Galloped Off with His Astonished Captive"
"The Indians Poured a Rain of Poisoned Arrows"
IV. Enter One Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
V. The Desperate Straits of Nicuesa
Panama, Balboa and a Forgotten Romance
I. The Coming of the Devastator
"Balboa . . . Engaged in Superintending the Roofing of a House"
II. The Greatest Exploit since Columbus's Voyage
"The Expedition Had to Fight Its Way Through Tribes of Warlike and Ferocious Mountaineers"
"He Took Possession of the Sea in the Name of Castile and Leon"
"He Threw the Sacred Volume to the Ground in a Violent Rage"
A Study in Retribution "They that take the sword shall perish by the sword."
I. The Chief Scion of a Famous Family
II. The Terrible Persistence of Pizarro
III. "A Communistic Despotism."
IV. The Treacherous and Bloody Massacre of Caxamarca.
V. The Ransom and Murder of the Inca
"They Burst Upon the Ranks of the Unarmed Indians."
"The Three Pizarros . . . Sallied Out to Meet Them"
VI. The Inca and the Peruvians Strike Vainly for Freedom
"He Threw His Sole Remaining Weapon in the Faces of the Escaladers"
VII. "The Men of Chili" and the Civil Wars
Fernando Cortes. From a Picture in the Florence Gallery
VIII. The Mean End of the Great Conquistador
The Greatest Adventure in History
I. The Chief of all the Soldiers of Fortune
III. The Religion of the Aztecs
VII. The Meeting with Montezuma