 | United States - 1847 - 606 pages
...? Set on at once — I absolve you.' Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf iu the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired...the loss of a Spaniard. Thus fell the Indian empire ; for it seems to have been a consequence of the singular form of government, that the loss of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 546 pages
...indignation. The scene which followed must be given in Mr. Prescott's own words. " Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed...themselves into the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by the report of artillery and muskets, the echoes of which reverberated... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 580 pages
...is, the fields are filling with Indians ? Set on at once ; I absolve you." Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed...themselves into the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by the report of artillery and muskets, the echoes of which reverberated... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...is, the fields are filling with Indians? Set on at once ! I absolve you." Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed...themselves into the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by the report of artillery and muskets, the echoes of which reverberated... | |
 | 1847 - 796 pages
...powder. Pizarro gave the appointed signal, and what followed must be described in our author's words. cry of every Spaniard in the city, as, rushing from the...themselves into the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by the report of artillery and muskets, the echoes of which reverberated... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1847 - 806 pages
...powder. Pizarro gave the appointed signal, Mid what followed must be described in our author's words. cry of every Spaniard in the city, as, rushing from the...themselves into the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by the report of artillery and muskets, the echoes of which reverberated... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 550 pages
...answered by the battle-cry of every Spaniard in the city, as, rushing from the avenues of the great balls in which they were concealed, they poured into the...themselves into the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by the report of artillery and muskets, the echoes of which reverberated... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1847 - 350 pages
...rushing from the avenues of the great 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 crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by the report of artillery and muskets, the echoes of which reverberated... | |
 | 1847 - 560 pages
...rushing from the avenues of the great halls iu which they were concealed, they poured into the pla"a, horse and foot, each in his own dark column, and threw...themselves into the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by the report of artillery and muskets, the echoes of which reverberated... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 608 pages
...battle-cry of every Spaniard in the city, as, rushing from the avenues of the great halls in which »hey were concealed-, they poured into the plaza, horse...each in his own dark column, and threw themselves in the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stanned by the report of artillery... | |
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It was answered by the battle-cry of every Spaniard in the city, as rushing from the avenues of the great halls in which they were concealed, they poured into the plaza, horse and foot, each in his own dark column, and threw themselves into the midst... 
