HISTORY OF AMERICA.

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Pizarro eafily induced not only liis own followers ,but the crew of the veffel from Panama , to refumehis former fcheme with frelh ardor. Inftead of return-ing to Panama , they ftood towards the fouth eaft,and more fortunate in this than in any of their paftefforts, they, on the twentieth day after their de-parture from Gorgona, difcovered the coaft ofPeru . After touching at feveral villages on thecoaft no wife inviting, they landed at Tumbez , aplace of fome note, about three degrees fouth ofthe line, diftinguilhed for its ftately temple, and apalace of the Incas or fovereigns of the countryThere the Spaniards feafted their jeyes with the firftview of the opulence and civilization of the Peru-vian empire. They beheld a country fully peopled,and cultivated with an appearance of regular in-duftry; the natives decently clothed, and poffeffedof ingenuity fo far furpaffing the other inhabitants ,of the New World , as to have the ufe of tame do-meftic animals. But what chiefly attracted theirnotice, was fuch a fhow of gold and filver, notonly in the ornaments of their perfons and templesbut in feveral veffels and utenfils for common ufe,formed of thofe precious metals, as left no roomto doubt that they abounded with profulion inthe country. Pizarro and his companions feem-ed now to have attained to the completion of theirmod fanguine hopes, and fancied that all theirwillies and dreams of rich domains , and inexhauft-ible treafures, would foon be realized.

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