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Under the Andes
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781587153174
Publisher: Borgo Press
Published: Aug 6 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.66 Width: 8.98 Depth: 6.24
Language: English
From the creator of Nero Wolfe . . .AN INCA CIVILIZATION LOST FOR GENERATIONS!
Many, many years ago, Atahualpa, the Inca, son of Huayna-Capac, was imprisoned at Cajamarco. Four, five hundred years ago, it was. By the great Pizarro. There was gold at Cuzco, to the south, and at Atahualpa for his ransom, and he ordered that this gold be brought to Pizarro.
Messengers carried the order like the wind, so swift that in five days the priests of the sun carried their gold from the temples to save the life of Atahualpa.
But Hernando Pizarro, brother of the great Pizarro, suspected a delay in the carriers of gold. From Pachacamac he came with twenty horsemen, sowing terror in the mountains. Across the Juaja River and past Lake Chinchaycocha they came, till they arrived at the city of Huanuco.
There were temples and gold and priests and soldiers. But when the soldiers of the Inca saw the horses of the Spaniards and heard the guns, they became frightened and ran away like little children, carrying their gold. Never before had they seen white men, or guns, or horses.
With them came many priests and women, to the snow of the mountains. And after many days of suffering they came to a cave, wherein they disappeared and no more were seen, nor could Hernando Pizarro and his twenty horsemen find them to procure their gold.
And before they entered the cave they scaled a rock near its entrance and carved thereon the likeness of a horse to warn their Inca brethren of the Spaniards who had driven them from Huanuco.
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