Panama and the canal . Descendanis oe the Incas oe Peru. Old Inca Masonry in Backgrod covering the golden kingdom away off to the south. Thisdistant land the Spaniards called Peru. It extended southof the equator for more than a thousand miles down the DISTANT LAND OF PERU 21 \Yestern coast of South America, and was the richest andmost hiy-hly developed of an_\ part of tlie New World. Herewere welhbuilt towns, \\ith palaces and temples of strange. Bridge Still Standing on the Old Road from Panama to Porto Bello. and splendid workmanship. Here were fine roads, fertilefields, and millions of peo
Panama and the canal . Descendanis oe the Incas oe Peru. Old Inca Masonry in Backgrod covering the golden kingdom away off to the south. Thisdistant land the Spaniards called Peru. It extended southof the equator for more than a thousand miles down the DISTANT LAND OF PERU 21 \Yestern coast of South America, and was the richest andmost hiy-hly developed of an_\ part of tlie New World. Herewere welhbuilt towns, \\ith palaces and temples of strange. Bridge Still Standing on the Old Road from Panama to Porto Bello. and splendid workmanship. Here were fine roads, fertilefields, and millions of people. And here, too, were minesof gold and silver from which the rulers, called Incas (Ing-kas), had gathered an almost unbelievable store of metal. AVc cannot here tell the long and thrillingstorv of the hardships suffered by Pizarro andhis men. No one can read it without beingamazed Ijy the reckless daring which finally brought themto the coast of Peru. Nor is this the place for the sad story Conquestof Peru 22 THE GOLDEN KINGDOM of the conquest. Horses and bloodhounds the natives hadnever seen before and were intensely afraid of them. Theirweapons, too, were no match for the swords and irrearms ofthe Spaniards. And so there followed in Peru the samegreedy scramble for gold as at Panama,—the same torture,massacre, treachery, and slavery. The enormous wealth that now fell into the hands of Pi-zarros men is difficult to estimate. We are t
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