"Quito" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... covered by yearly contributions from Mexico. The extortions of unconscientious officials were by no means conspicuous by their absence. Cruelties, however, such as were practised in the American mining districts, or in the manufactures of Quito, never occurred ...
— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.
... him, they burnt alive his captain-general Cochilimaca who had come peaceably to the governor, accompanied by other high personages." 15. "Within a few days after these executions they likewise burned Chamba another very high lord of the province of Quito, without him giving them any cause." 16. "Thus too they burnt unjustly Chapera lord of the Canaries." 17. "Likewise they burnt the feet of Luis who was one of the great lords in Quito, and tortured him in many other ways, ...
— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt
... considerably increases the number of habitable countries in the torrid zone. It is probable, that at the back of the flat burning coasts of Guinea, there exist in the centre of Africa, countries which enjoy a delightful temperature; as we see the vernal valley of Quito, situate under the same latitude with the destructive coasts of French Guyana, where the humid heat constantly cherishes the seeds of disease. On the other hand, it is the continued elevation of the ground, which, in the central parts of Asia, extends ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, - Issue 564, September 1, 1832 • Various |
