item: #1 of 8 id: 10772 author: Bingham, Hiram title: Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru date: None words: 95112 flesch: 71 summary: Near the salt pans are many Inca walls and the ruins of structures, with niches, called Rumihuasi, or Stone House. Two of the latter, Titicaca and Koati, were peculiarly venerated in Inca days. keywords: -----figure; able; account; accustomed; adobe; afternoon; agriculture; air; alluvial; alpacas; altitude; amaru; amautas; amazon; american; ancestors; ancient; andes; animals; anxious; april; apurimac; arable; area; arequipa; armed; arrieros; arrival; arrows; artificial; ascent; ashlars; august; away; bad; banks; barley; base; basin; beautiful; beauty; best; better; black; blankets; body; bolivia; bones; boulders; bowman; boys; bridge; bright; broken; brothers; buildings; buried; business; calancha; camp; cane; canyon; capable; capital; captain; careful; carriers; carry; carrying; case; cattle; caves; ccapac; centuries; century; chapter; character; chief; children; choqquequirau; chuquibamba; church; citadel; city; clay; clearing; clements; cliffs; climate; climb; climbing; close; coast; coca; coello; cold; color; colored; comfortable; coming; common; company; conditions; conquest; conservidayoc; considerable; 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savages; sayri; science; sea; search; season; seats; second; secure; service; señor; shallow; shelter; shepherds; short; sides; silver; single; site; skill; slopes; small; snow; society; soil; soldiers; sons; source; south; southern; spaniards; spanish; spring; square; squier; steep; steps; stone; stop; stories; story; strange; stream; streets; striking; strong; structure; study; sub; sugar; summit; sun; supplies; supply; sure; surface; sweet; system; tampu; tejadas; temperate; temple; tent; terraces; thatched; thick; thing; thought; thousands; time; titicaca; titu; tocco; town; trail; travelers; treasure; trees; tribe; tropical; trouble; true; tucker; tupac; uilcapampa; uiticos; unable; university; unknown; unusual; upper; urubamba; usual; valley; viceroy; vicinity; viejo; view; vilcabamba; vilcanota; village; visit; volcanic; wall; warm; water; watkins; way; weather; weeks; welcome; west; western; white; wide; wild; willing; windows; winds; women; wool; woolen; words; work; world; worship; writers; yale; yards; years; young; yucay; yurak cache: 10772.txt plain text: 10772.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 20218 author: Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro title: History of the Incas date: None words: 70738 flesch: 76 summary: Tupac Inca Yupanqui sets out, a second time, by order of his father, to conquer what remained unsubdued in Chinchay-suyu XLVII. The life of Tupac Inca Yupanqui, the tenth Inca XLIX. keywords: able; account; achachi; advance; africa; alcabisas; alive; alonso; amaru; ancestors; ancient; anta; apu; arms; army; asia; atahualpa; atlantic; attack; auqui; authorities; authority; ayamarcas; ayar; ayllu; balboa; battle; best; betanzos; bird; body; boy; brethren; brother; brother inca; cachi; campaign; cancha; captains; castille; cause; caxamarca; cayambis; cañaris; ccapac; ccapac inca; ccapac yupanqui; celebrated; ceremony; certain; chachapoyas; chalco; chancas; charge; chief; child; children; chima; chinchay; christ; chuchi; cieza; city; coast; colla; coming; companies; conquered; conquest; country; creator; cruel; cruelties; cruelty; cunti; curacas; cusi; cuzco; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deeds; descendants; desire; determined; diego; distance; don; earth; east; edifices; eighth inca; eldest; empire; enemies; enemy; events; evil; eyes; face; far; father; favour; fear; fertile; festivals; flight; flood; following; force; forests; fortress; fourth; francisco; friends; fringe; garcilasso; general; gifts; god; gold; good; government; governor; great; greater; guard; hakluyt; hanan; hands; head; high; hill; history; holy; honour; house; huacas; huaccac; huaco; huallas; huaman; huanca; huaraca; huari; huascar; huascar inca; huayllacans; huayna; huayna ccapac; hurin; idol; image; inca; inca army; inca paucar; inca rocca; inca urco; inca yupanqui; indians; indies; information; inhabitants; island; juan; king; kingdoms; known; lake; land; language; large; leagues; leave; left; legitimate; leon; liberty; licentiate; life; lineage; little; living; lloqui; long; lord; majesty; mama; manco; manco ccapac; manco inca; manner; march; married; mayta; mayta ccapac; meaning; means; memory; men; messengers; molina; mother; mountains; names; narrative; nations; natives; natural; navamuel; near; necessary; new inca; news; ninth inca; nominated; north; note; notice; number; obedience; object; order; orejones; origin; pachacuti inca; parts; paucar; pedro; people; person; peru; philip; pizarro; place; plato; point; polo; position; possession; power; powerful; present; principal; prisoner; provinces; pursuit; quito; quiz; raymi; reason; relations; reply; rest; return; rich; right; river; road; round; route; royal; ruiz; rule; sacrifices; said; sarmiento; sea; second; servants; service; sides; silver; sinchi; sir; small; society; son; son inca; son tupac; sons; south; sovereign; spain; spaniards; special; spoils; state; stone; strong; successor; sun; suyu; tampu; territory; things; time; time inca; title; titu; tocay; tocay ccapac; tocco; toledo; town; tribes; tribute; triumph; troops; true; truth; tumipampa; tupac ccapac; tupac inca; tyranny; tyrants; uchu; valiant; valley; vega; vicaquirau; viceroy; victory; viracocha; viracocha inca; visitation; war; wars; water; way; west; wife; wish; women; words; work; world; xaquixahuana; yahuar; yamqui; yana; years; ynti; young; yucay cache: 20218.txt plain text: 20218.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 21066 author: Collingwood, Harry title: Harry Escombe: A Tale of Adventure in Peru date: None words: 92537 flesch: 57 summary: Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru By Harry Collingwood ________________________________________________________________________ Harry Escombe is a young apprentice in a civil engineer's office. But before he could arrive at a decision on this point he was in the presence of Mr Richards, and a single glance at the chief draughtsman's face--now that it could be seen clearly and unveiled by a pall of smoke--sufficed to assure Harry Escombe that in this case at least he had nothing in the nature of censure to fear. keywords: able; absolute; accomplished; advanced; adventure; afternoon; air; altar; ancient; animal; answer; anxious; apartment; appearance; arima; arrival; assured; astonishment; atahuallpa; attempt; attention; attired; aware; awful; balsa; bannister; banquet; bar; bearing; bed; beginning; beneath; best; better; blood; board; boat; body; bodyguard; breakfast; brief; building; business; butler; cachama; camp; capac; care; careful; case; cave; certain; chance; chapter; character; chest; chief; circumstances; city; clear; cliff; close; cold; collar; colour; comfort; coming; command; companion; complete; concerned; conclusion; continued; contrary; conversation; conviction; council; country; course; craft; creature; cut; cutter; dais; danger; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deck; deep; delay; desire; determined; devoted; difficult; difficulties; direction; distance; door; doubt; dozen; drawing; duty; early; earth; easy; edge; effect; end; engaged; england; englishman; enormous; entire; entrance; ere; escape; escombe; escort; evening; evident; exhausted; existence; expected; express; extent; extraordinary; extreme; eyes; face; fact; faithful; fall; far; fate; father; fear; features; feel; feeling; feet; fellow; find; fine; fire; fishing; flight; flowers; following; foot; form; forward; free; friend; garden; gaze; general; glorious; gold; good; grass; great; half; hand; harry; harry escombe; head; heart; heavy; help; high; history; hither; hold; home; honour; hook; hope; horses; hour; house; huanacocha; human; idea; important; inca; indian; individual; influence; information; inhabitants; instant; instructions; jewel; journey; keen; kind; knowledge; known; lad; lake; lamp; language; large; late; leave; left; length; life; like; line; litter; little; lives; long; longer; look; lord; lord huanacocha; lost; magnificent; main; mama; man; manco; manner; massive; mate; matter; meal; means; measure; message; midst; miles; mind; minutes; missing; mistake; moment; monarch; monsters; months; morning; motahuana; mother; mountain; mule; nation; nature; nay; near; necessary; neck; need; new; night; nobles; note; number; object; occasion; open; opening; opinion; opportunity; ordeal; order; outside; pachacamac; pair; palace; particular; party; passage; past; peons; people; perfect; person; peruvian; philip; pleased; plesiosaurus; point; pointed; poor; position; possibility; possible; power; powerful; precious; prepared; presence; present; pretty; priest; prisoner; procession; progress; purpose; quarter; quebrada; question; railway; reach; ready; reason; report; rest; result; return; richards; ride; road; rock; room; rope; rose; round; route; royal; said; satisfied; save; scene; search; second; secret; senor; servants; service; set; ship; short; shoulders; sides; sign; silver; simple; single; sir; size; skin; sleep; sleeping; slope; small; smooth; snow; solid; space; spot; sprang; square; standing; state; steps; stone; story; strain; strange; strength; strong; subject; sufficient; sun; surface; survey; swinburne; taking; task; teeth; temple; terrible; thanks; thick; thing; thought; throat; throne; tiahuana; time; titucocha; trail; treasure; trees; trouble; true; truth; turning; umu; utmost; valley; value; vast; view; villac; vmu; voice; walk; wall; want; watch; water; way; weapons; white; wide; window; wish; woman; wonder; wood; word; work; worship; xaxaguana; yacht; years; young; young escombe; young inca; young man; yupanqui cache: 21066.txt plain text: 21066.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 34139 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Real Gold: A Story of Adventure date: None words: 73801 flesch: 87 summary: At last Cyril spoke again. the lads asked themselves, and though neither made any allusion to their thoughts, they were tortured by fancies of what might have happened, till at last Perry was certain that, instead of the colonel and John Manning killing the two guides, these two men had turned upon them and stabbed them to the heart. keywords: 'em; able; afraid; air; animals; arm; attack; bad; bark; best; better; big; bird; bit; black; boy; boys; breakfast; camp; campion; captain; cave; chapter; chasm; cil; clear; close; cold; colonel; coming; companion; country; couple; course; cry; cyril; danger; dangerous; darkness; day; days; deal; deep; diego; direction; distance; dozen; dry; duty; edge; end; enemy; english; escape; eyes; face; fact; faint; fall; far; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fire; forest; friend; gentlemen; getting; giving; glad; gold; good; gorge; great; guide; gun; guns; half; halt; hand; hard; head; heart; help; high; hold; home; hope; horrible; hot; hour; huge; impossible; indians; inside; john; john manning; journey; keeping; knife; lad; lads; lantern; laughing; leader; leading; leave; left; legs; lie; like; likely; lips; little; long; look; looking; low; lower; mad; making; manning; master; master perry; meal; means; mind; minutes; mist; moment; morning; mountains; mules; narrow; nature; near; noise; nonsense; norton; notice; old; open; orders; pack; party; pass; path; people; perry; piece; place; plenty; point; poor; position; pretty; quick; ready; rest; right; roar; rock; room; round; safe; search; seed; sharp; shelf; short; shoulder; sides; sign; silence; silent; sir; sleep; slope; snow; soft; soldier; son; spanish; spite; spot; standing; start; startled; stay; step; stones; straight; strange; stream; sun; sure; talking; tell; terrible; things; think; thinking; thought; time; track; trees; turn; turning; use; valley; voice; walk; wall; want; watching; water; way; whisper; white; wild; wish; words; work; wrong; yards; young cache: 34139.txt plain text: 34139.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 5149 author: Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) title: Gold of the Gods date: None words: 68993 flesch: 86 summary: You will tell Mr. Kennedy--you will both be--so careful? Mr. Kennedy should know what my opinion of Mr. Whitney is, I think, replied Norton confidently. keywords: affair; afraid; air; albert; alfonso; american; anonymous; answer; apartment; attention; away; believe; best; better; big; bit; black; blade; blood; blow; bore; box; building; burke; car; careful; case; cat; chance; cigarettes; city; clerk; clever; coming; conversation; corner; country; craig; curse; cut; dagger; dark; day; deal; death; deep; desk; detective; direction; dog; don; door; doubt; drawer; drop; edward; effect; elevator; entrance; envelope; evident; evil; excited; excuse; eyes; face; fact; fancied; far; father; fear; feeling; find; finding; fish; floor; friend; gas; girl; glad; glance; gods; gold; good; great; half; hall; hand; head; help; home; hope; hotel; hours; house; hurried; idea; important; impression; inca; indian; inez; interest; jameson; juanita; kennedy; kind; known; laboratory; large; late; left; leslie; letters; library; life; like; lima; line; little; living; lockwood; long; look; looking; lost; love; low; luis; man; manner; mansiche; marks; matter; means; mendoza; mere; message; mind; minutes; moche; moment; morning; mother; murder; museum; need; new; norton; note; number; o'connor; office; open; order; outside; paper; peculiar; peje; people; person; peru; peruvian; piece; place; pocket; point; poison; possible; power; prepared; pretty; prince; prints; professor; professor kennedy; question; quickly; rate; ready; real; reason; receiver; rest; right; road; room; run; safe; satisfaction; saw; second; secret; senora; senorita; set; sheet; shoe; shot; sort; south; steel; steps; stop; story; strange; street; study; surprise; suspicion; table; talk; tea; telephone; tell; telling; test; thing; thinking; thought; time; tone; trace; treasure; trouble; true; trust; truth; turn; university; ventured; visit; voice; wall; walter; warnings; watch; way; whitney; window; woman; wonderful; words; work; working; world; york; young cache: 5149.txt plain text: 5149.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 546 author: Stout, Rex title: Under the Andes date: None words: 91996 flesch: 87 summary: There was something supremely horrible about the thing in its very helplessness, and I was shuddering violently as I stooped to help Harry lift Desiree from the ground and carry her away. Harry kept urging me forward, but I was using every ounce of strength that was left to me. keywords: able; advanced; afternoon; air; alcove; andes; answer; appearance; arms; arriero; attack; attempt; aware; backs; bank; beautiful; beauty; bent; best; better; black; blood; blow; bodies; body; boulder; boy; brain; breath; breathing; brilliant; broad; brutes; burst; care; cavern; center; certain; chance; chapter; chasm; child; clear; close; cold; column; complete; cord; corner; corridor; couch; course; crevice; cry; curious; current; cut; danger; darkness; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; desiree; despair; desperate; deuce; devil; difficulty; dim; dinner; direction; distance; doorway; doubt; dozen; drink; dry; easy; edge; effort; end; entrance; escape; evening; exhausted; exit; eyes; face; fact; faint; fall; farther; fear; feeling; feet; felipe; fingers; fire; fish; flash; flat; floor; following; food; foot; force; form; free; friend; fury; gaze; glance; gold; golden; good; granite; great; ground; guess; guide; hair; half; hand; hard; harry; head; heart; heaven; heavy; height; hide; high; hold; hope; horror; hotel; hours; huge; idea; incas; inches; inside; instant; kind; king; knees; knife; known; lad; lake; lamar; lane; large; late; laugh; leading; left; legs; length; level; life; like; line; lips; little; long; longer; look; lost; love; low; luck; man; mass; massive; matter; mean; meaning; middle; miles; mind; minutes; mire; moment; morning; motionless; mountain; mouth; movement; narrow; nature; near; necessary; need; new; nodded; oar; opening; opposite; pain; passage; past; paul; place; play; point; poor; possible; power; purpose; question; quick; quipos; raft; reach; ready; rear; reason; rest; return; right; rock; room; rose; royal; run; running; rushing; san; scene; search; seats; second; senora; set; shaft; sharp; short; shoulder; sides; silence; silent; single; skin; sleep; small; smile; soft; sound; space; spear; spot; sprang; stand; start; step; stone; story; straight; stream; strength; strips; struggle; stuff; sudden; sun; sure; surface; surprise; swift; talk; task; teeth; terror; thank; thick; thing; thongs; thought; thousands; throat; throne; time; try; tunnel; turn; turning; unable; upward; urns; use; useless; voice; wait; wall; want; watch; water; way; week; white; wide; wild; woman; wonder; words; work; world; yards; years cache: 546.txt plain text: 546.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 7070 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: The Treasure of the Incas: A Story of Adventure in Peru date: None words: 126179 flesch: 87 summary: Sometimes, when cooled, the points were too soft, at other times too brittle; but at the end of a week they had arrived at the proper medium. Very well, sir; we shall be here in good time. keywords: able; accustomed; afraid; air; animals; arms; arrows; attack; attempt; bad; baggage; bags; barnett; bats; beasts; bertie; best; better; big; bit; blow; board; boat; breakfast; brigands; broken; brother; buck; building; callao; captain; care; carrying; case; castle; cave; certain; chamber; chance; chapter; clear; close; clothes; coast; coffee; coming; country; couple; course; cut; cuzco; dark; day; daylight; days; deal; deep; demons; dias; difficulty; dinner; distance; dollars; donna; door; doubt; dozen; dust; edge; end; england; english; entrance; evening; expedition; eyes; face; fact; fall; father; fear; feet; fellows; find; finding; fire; fish; floor; food; foot; force; forest; fortescue; fresh; general; getting; glad; gold; good; gorge; great; guard; guns; half; hand; handed; hard; harry; head; heavy; help; hidden; hiding; high; higher; hills; hit; hold; hole; home; hope; hour; house; idea; incas; inches; indians; josã; journey; keeping; knife; knowledge; ladder; lake; large; left; level; lie; life; like; likely; lima; line; little; llamas; london; long; longer; look; looking; lost; lot; lower; lying; making; man; maria; mate; matter; meal; means; meat; men; mile; mind; mines; minutes; miss; moment; money; months; morning; morrow; mountains; mouth; mules; muleteer; natives; near; necessary; need; night; number; o'clock; officer; open; opening; order; outside; party; pass; passage; past; pay; people; peru; pick; piece; pistols; place; plan; plenty; point; position; possible; pounds; powder; prendergast; present; pretty; provisions; purpose; quarter; question; rate; ravine; ready; reason; rest; return; rich; rifles; risk; river; road; rocks; room; rope; rose; rough; round; run; safe; sail; savages; saw; saying; sea; search; second; secret; service; set; seã±or; sharp; ship; shot; sides; signs; silver; sir; sleep; small; sorry; sort; spaniards; spanish; spirits; spot; squibs; standing; start; stay; steps; stone; stop; stores; storm; straight; strange; stream; strong; sufficient; talk; talking; tell; tents; thank; thick; thing; thinking; thought; throw; time; torch; torches; town; traditions; treasure; trees; trouble; turn; twice; upper; useful; valley; village; voyage; wait; wall; want; watch; water; way; week; weight; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; wish; woman; wood; work; world; worth; yards; years; young cache: 7070.txt plain text: 7070.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 9068 author: Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir title: Apu Ollantay: A Drama of the Time of the Incas date: None words: 18097 flesch: 91 summary: 'Tis said that all the Anti host Received Ollantay with acclaim; Many have seen, and they recount, Ollantay wears the royal fringe. There will not be two, O Rumi-naui The Mountain Chief will rule the Antis; In Cuzco Ollantay will reign-- As Viceroy deputed by me His duties will call him to act As ruler throughout the whole realm. keywords: act; anahuarqui; anti; art; behold; beloved; blood; brave; care; ccacca; chaqui; chief; child; convent; copy; coyllur; cruel; cusi; cusi coyllur; cuzco; daughter; day; days; dead; death; die; don; door; dost; dove; drama; dress; e'en; enters; evil; exeunt; exit; eyes; face; fall; fate; father; fear; feet; food; footnote; force; friend; general; golden; great; grief; guards; hall; hanco; hand; head; heart; high; huaranca; huayllu; inca; joy; justiniani; king; left; life; long; lord; love; mama; man; march; means; men; mother; mountain; naui; near; new; news; night; o king; octosyllabic; ollantay; original; pachacuti; people; piqui; piqui chaqui; pitu; place; priest; princess; queen; quichua; ready; rebels; red; rest; round; royal; rumi; sad; salla; scene; second; son; star; stone; sumac; sun; suyu; sweet; tampu; text; thee; thine; thou; thy; tiana; time; tis; translation; tschudi; tupac; tupac yupanqui; tuyallay; uillac; uillac uma; urco; virgins; von; war; water; white; wife; word; years; yma; yma sumac; young; yupanqui; zegarra cache: 9068.txt plain text: 9068.txt