Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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What a fight to the Spaniards were the gardens of the temple of the fun! Where the trees, fruits and flowers were of folid gold, and worked with an art unknown to Europeans. The walls of the temple itfelf lined with the fame metal: an infinite number of flatnes covered with precious (tones, and an im menfe quantity of other treafures, till then un known, dazzled the conquerors of that unhappy peo ple, and made them forget, in the midft of their cruelties, that the Peruvians were men.

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