El Reino de los Incas del Perú

Excerpt from El Reino de los Incas del Perú: Arranged From The Text Of "los Comentarios Reales de los Incas" Of The Inca Garcilaso de la Vega; Edited, With Vocabulary And Notes When the three hundred Spanish adventurers who set out from Panama under the leadership of the indomitable Francisco Pizarro reached Peru, they found and rapidly destroyed one of the most interesting forms of Civilization that has ever existed. The world is fortunate, indeed, in the fact that there appeared on the scene of this gigantic tragedy, in time to rescue from oblivion the fast perishing traditions of the Inca Empire, several historians in whose writings the story of that remarkable state has been preserved. Among these historians, one is deserving of especial credit because of his exceptional opportunities for observa tion a descendant of the kingly line of Peru, the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, whose Real Comentarios de los Incas, Reyes del Perú (2d Edition; Madrid, 1723) is the basis of the present text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.