item: #1 of 13 id: 14898 author: Lange, Algot title: In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians date: None words: 47674 flesch: 73 summary: When the _caboclo_ passes along this path at night to raid the Indian _maloca,_ he must sever this thin bushrope or climber, thereby releasing suddenly the tension of the sapling. The club-men were naked, except for their head-gear, which consisted simply of a band of _mutum_ plumes. keywords: amazon; arrows; blow; canoe; chief; close; creek; day; days; death; feet; fever; floresta; forest; good; ground; half; hammock; head; house; hut; indians; itecoahy; jungle; launch; life; males; man; men; near; new; night; place; region; remate; river; rubber; time; tree; village; water; way cache: 14898.txt plain text: 14898.txt item: #2 of 13 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: army; atahualpa; ayar; ayllu; brother; captains; ccapac; ccapac yupanqui; chalco; chancas; city; conquered; cusi; cuzco; death; don; father; francisco; history; house; huascar; huayna; huayna ccapac; inca; inca rocca; inca yupanqui; island; land; leagues; left; life; mama; manco; manco ccapac; mayta; means; men; natives; note; order; pachacuti inca; people; peru; place; provinces; quiz; rest; sarmiento; sinchi; son; son inca; sons; sun; things; time; tupac inca; valley; viracocha; viracocha inca; war; way; years cache: 20218.txt plain text: 20218.txt item: #3 of 13 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: arima; body; building; butler; camp; chief; city; country; course; day; end; escombe; eyes; fact; feet; find; gold; good; half; hand; harry; head; hour; house; huanacocha; inca; indian; lake; left; length; life; lord; man; manco; matter; minutes; moment; morning; night; palace; party; people; return; room; sun; survey; tiahuana; time; umu; valley; water; way; work; xaxaguana cache: 21066.txt plain text: 21066.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 21397 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Manco, the Peruvian Chief Or, An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas date: None words: 110041 flesch: 78 summary: As I watched the countenance of the speaker, it wore an almost terrific expression, full of an intense hatred, and a desire for vengeance; yet, before the outbreak, he had probably been like most other Indians, a mild, peaceable, and patiently suffering man. He is very much liked by all the Indians, though he has his faults like other men. keywords: body; chief; country; dark; day; days; distance; escape; eyes; father; feet; fire; friends; good; ground; hand; head; hope; horses; house; inca; indians; ithulpo; jose; left; like; look; manco; men; moment; mountains; ned; night; number; pedro; people; place; rest; river; set; soldiers; spaniards; spanish; tell; thought; till; time; trees; water; way; work cache: 21397.txt plain text: 21397.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 21699 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: The Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure on South America date: None words: 96339 flesch: 78 summary: It was a tremendous blow to poor Lawrence, coming as he did fresh from college in a peaceful land, and full of the reminiscences of childhood. But poor Lawrence was incapable of enjoying the beauties of nature just then. keywords: armstrong; away; colonel; course; dat; day; dey; doubt; eyes; face; father; fellow; fire; friend; girl; good; guide; hand; head; hero; hope; horse; hut; indian; know; lawrence; left; life; little; look; looking; manuela; massa; men; mind; moment; mountains; negro; pampas; party; pedro; people; place; point; poor; quashy; right; river; round; saw; senhor; smile; spanish; surprise; thought; tiger; time; way; white; wild; youth cache: 21699.txt plain text: 21699.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 23497 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Through Forest and Stream: The Quest of the Quetzal date: None words: 33294 flesch: 90 summary: Everything is ready, uncle, I said. It ought to be stopped, uncle, I said. keywords: birds; boat; boy; carpenter; cross; dick; fire; good; gun; look; master; nat; pete; right; river; sir; time; uncle; uncle dick; water; way; yes cache: 23497.txt plain text: 23497.txt item: #7 of 13 id: 23648 author: Reid, Mayne title: Gaspar the Gaucho: A Story of the Gran Chaco date: None words: 94059 flesch: 77 summary: He is armed with a long pole of _cana brava_, one end having an iron point barbed like a spear. Himself skilled as any Indian in the reading of _pampas_ sign, at a glance he sees they are not. keywords: aguara; cacique; captive; chaco; chapter; chief; cypriano; day; dead; doubt; eyes; face; father; francesca; gaspar; gaucho; girl; good; ground; halberger; half; hand; head; hill; home; horse; indian; know; left; like; look; ludwig; making; man; nacena; naraguana; need; night; place; plain; river; shebotha; spot; stream; sun; tell; think; time; tovas; town; trail; tree; tribe; valdez; way; white; young cache: 23648.txt plain text: 23648.txt item: #8 of 13 id: 28291 author: Stables, Gordon title: Our Home in the Silver West: A Story of Struggle and Adventure date: None words: 84956 flesch: 88 summary: Those _malo_ men have been spying on us when we little thought it. But, wonderful to relate, what _men_ failed to do a _dog_ accomplished. keywords: air; archie; aunt; blood; bombazo; boys; brothers; cloth; coila; country; dark; day; dear; donald; dugald; end; estancia; evening; eyes; face; father; fire; flora; gauchos; glen; good; green; half; hand; head; heart; hills; home; horses; house; indians; jenny; land; left; life; look; looking; m'crimman; m'rae; man; men; moment; moncrieff; mother; new; night; place; poor; room; round; saw; silver; story; thought; time; townley; trees; water; way; west; wild; work; young cache: 28291.txt plain text: 28291.txt item: #9 of 13 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: boy; boys; colonel; course; cyril; face; father; fire; good; half; hand; head; indians; john; john manning; lad; little; look; manning; mountains; mules; perry; place; right; round; sir; think; time; want; water; way cache: 34139.txt plain text: 34139.txt item: #10 of 13 id: 34675 author: Wright, Sidney Harry title: Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America date: None words: 92882 flesch: 72 summary: They fear lest you or your companions should tell other white men what you will have seen at our camp. Mr. Bartlett did not leave New York for his southward journey till the summer of 1850, and one of the first lessons that he learned on that journey was that redskins, like other men, cannot be understood from books or from mere surface examination. keywords: arms; away; bank; black; boat; cacique; camp; canoe; captain; chapter; chief; come; coming; country; course; day; days; distance; dozen; end; english; englishman; feet; find; fire; forest; going; good; guides; gun; half; hand; head; horses; hour; hunting; indians; journey; left; life; look; looking; making; man; men; miles; minutes; moment; morning; new; night; party; people; place; redskins; rest; river; round; savage; second; set; spanish; time; tribe; village; war; water; white; wild; young cache: 34675.txt plain text: 34675.txt item: #11 of 13 id: 38961 author: King, Philip Parker title: Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. Volume I. Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 date: None words: 232132 flesch: 72 summary: | F. | 2 |69 23,5|69 29,5|69 26 |69 25,5 | 1832 | | | | | | | | Port Praya |Jan. | F. | 2 |42 34 |41 47,5|41 15 |41 57 {|Sept.19{| 18 | 67 | F. | 1 |41 28 |42 02,5|41 keywords: +5.0 |; ------+-------+-------+-------+ |; ---------------------+--------+---------+----------+-----+------+ |; ---------------------------+ |; -9.2 |; = =; = |; anchorage |; april |; bay |; bayley |; bight |; boat; boqueron |; channel |; coast; cove |; cruz |; cubic |; day; desire |; e. |; end |; entrance |; extreme |; f. |; famine |; feet |; freycinet |; gallant |; harbour |; hope |; intensity |; island |; loaf |; lütke |; march |; mary |; near; passage |; paul |; peak |; point |; pole |; river |; rock |; s. |; shore; skyring |; sound |; strait |; vancouver |; vibration |; video |; w. |; wales |; water |; weather; wind; | +; | ---------------------------+---------+----------+------+-----+----------; | -|; | =; | ascension; | aug; | b.; | bachelor; | bahia; | beach; | bell; | body; | bynoe; | c.; | callao; | campana; | cape; | capt; | centre; | chilóe; | concepçion; | cook; | coquimbo; | date; | dew; | difference; | dip; | direction; | dryness; | duperrey; | east; | exp; | extremity; | falkland; | fitz; | flinders; | foot; | fort; | galapagos; | gorriti; | head; | hour; | hygrometer; | islet; | isthmus; | ix; | juan; | july; | june; | k.; | keeling; | king; | latitude; | lieut; | madeira; | magellan; | mauritius; | mean; | monte; | mount; | mr; | n.; | n.w; | needle; | new; | north; | observation; | observatory; | oct; | otaheite; | pernambuco; | place; | plymouth; | port; | pressure; | r.; | range; | rio; | rivulet; | sea; | south; | st; | station; | summit; | sydney; | talcahuano; | temperature; | tide; | time; | valdivia; | valparaiso; | vi; | weight; | west; | |; | |-----+---------; | |---------+----------+-----+------+; | |chron; | |h; | °; |-----+--------- |; |corrected| |; ° | cache: 38961.txt plain text: 38961.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 44514 author: Aimard, Gustave title: Last of the Incas: A Romance of the Pampas date: None words: 58700 flesch: 82 summary: As Don Torribio uttered these words, Doña Concha appeared, accompanied by Don Sylvio. A few days later, she continued, Don Sylvio fell into an ambuscade--why did you do that, Don Torribio? I wished to avenge myself on a rival, but I did not order his death. keywords: asked; blas; bombero; brothers; capataz; carmen; chief; concha; don; don sylvio; don torribio; don valentine; doña; estancia; eyes; face; father; fire; gauchos; good; gualichu; hand; head; heart; horse; indians; know; left; life; major; man; mercedes; moment; nocobotha; pedrito; pincheira; round; sylvio; time; valentine; voice cache: 44514.txt plain text: 44514.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 53080 author: Spence, Lewis title: The Myths of Mexico & Peru date: None words: 110263 flesch: 66 summary: Like many other gods of the chase, he is figured as having the characteristics of a deer or rabbit. Maya god of merchants and cacao-planters, 170, 177; God L thought to be, 176; probably parallel to Yacatecutli, 177 Emerald Fowl, The, 186 Etzalqualiztli (When they eat Bean Food). keywords: account; american; ancient; apu; aztec; bird; ccapac; central; chief; city; civilisation; country; creation; cuzco; day; days; death; deities; deity; early; earth; father; feet; festival; fire; form; general; god; goddess; gods; guatemala; hand; head; history; house; huitzilopochtli; human; hun; inca; kiche; king; lake; land; legend; life; little; maize; man; maya; means; men; mexican; mexico; moon; mother; myth; mythology; nahua; native; new; north; number; old; origin; people; period; peru; peruvian; place; popol; power; priest; quetzalcoatl; race; sacrifice; serpent; son; spanish; state; stone; sun; system; temple; tezcatlipoca; time; toltecs; vuh; war; water; work; world; worship; years; yucatan cache: 53080.txt plain text: 53080.txt