Identifier: amazonsofsoutham00stev (find matches)
Title: The Amazons of South America; thrilling adventures of reckless buccaneers and daring freebooters
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Stevens, Charles McClellan, 1861- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Amazons
Publisher: Chicago, A. Belford & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
oncealing in a ball of cotton,intended as a present especially pleasing to the Gov-ernors wife, a letter setting forth their grievances infull and signed by them all. It concluded with thestanza: Look out, Senor Governor, For the drover while hes near;Since he goes home to get the sheepFor the butcher, who stays here. The letter was uncovered at Panama, and it pro-duced a great sensation. The stanza was chanted allover Spain. It had such an efifect that the Governorwould not listen to the golden promises of Almagro,but at once sent two ships to bring away the Span-iards at Gallo, who had meanwhile suffered dread-fully from the inability to procure food and because ofthe continuous storms. The vessels sent to take themhome were hailed with rapturous shouts of joy, andthe conquest of Peru was being balanced across thefinger of fate. Pizarro at once asserted that decisionof character which proves the great leader for g^eatachievements. He drew his sword and struck a line in the sand east
Text Appearing After Image:
Q WH H Q <Q O QW THE LAND OF WAR 143 and west. Friends and comrades! he exclaimed,turning toward the south and standing on the northernside. On that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, thedrenching storm, desertion and death; on this sideease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches;here, Panama and its poverty. Choose each man whatbest becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I crossto the south. Ruiz, the pilot, and Pedro de Candia, a native ofGreece, unhesitatingly followed him, after whicheleven others crossed the line. To remain alone onthis desolate rock in the ocean, waiting for the doubt-ful reinforcements of Almagro, was heroism. With-out it, Pizarros name would have been unknown andSouth America would have had a different history. After seven months the Governor sent a relief ves-sel, with barely enough men to sail it. It found thefourteen men on the Island of Gallo as resolute as ever,and instead of returning in the vessel, Pizarro put hismen aboard and steered for the

Note About Images