Book Excerpt: ive Peruvian writers who made use of the language of theirconquerors; as Don Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui, whoseRelacion de Antiguedades de Piru is a precious document, thoughcomposed in very uncritical Spanish; as Don Luis Inca, whoseRelacion, prepared in Spanish, seems now to be lost, but isreferred to, with praise, by some of the older writers; and, above allothers, Inca Garcillasso de la Vega, whose vivid and attractive style, and numerous historical writings place him easily in the first rank ...
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Book Excerpt: ive Peruvian writers who made use of the language of theirconquerors; as Don Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui, whoseRelacion de Antiguedades de Piru is a precious document, thoughcomposed in very uncritical Spanish; as Don Luis Inca, whoseRelacion, prepared in Spanish, seems now to be lost, but isreferred to, with praise, by some of the older writers; and, above allothers, Inca Garcillasso de la Vega, whose vivid and attractive style, and numerous historical writings place him easily in the first rank ofSpanish historians of America.From the above it would seem evident enough that the American aborigineswere endowed, as a race, with a turn for literary composition, and afaculty for it. They were generally, however, an unlettered race. Whatthey composed was for oral use only. This might be carefully arranged, committed to heart, and handed down from generation to generation; butas for recording it in forms which would convey it to the mind throughthe eye, that was a discoveRead Mo
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