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" This space was to be filled with gold; but it was understood that the gold was not to be melted down into ingots, but to retain the original form of the articles into which it was manufactured, that the Inca might have the benefit of the space which they... "
Columbian Historical Novels - Page 292
by John Roy Musick - 1895
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History of the Conquest of Peru: With a Preliminary View of the ..., Volume 1

William Hickling Prescott - 1847 - 350 pages
...ingots, but to retain the original form of the articles into which it was manufactured, that the Inca might have the benefit of the space which they occupied. He further agreed to fill an adjoining room of smaller dimensions twice full with silver, in like manner; and he demanded two months to accomplish...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 12

1847 - 610 pages
...ingots, but to retain the original form of the articles into which it was manufactured, that the Inca might have the benefit of the space which they occupied. He further agreed to fill an adjoining room, of smaller dimensions, twice full with silver, in like manner ; and he demandeil two months to accomplish...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 81

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 580 pages
...ingots, but to retain the original form of the articles into which it was manufactured, that the Inca might have the benefit of the space which they occupied. He further agreed to fill an adjoining room, of smaller dimensions, twice full with silver, in like manner ; and he demanded two months to accomplish...
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First (-Sixth) illustrated reader

Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...ingots, but to retain the original form of the articles into which it was manufactured, that the Inca might have the benefit of the space which they occupied. He further agreed to fill an adjoining room of smaller dimensions twice full with silver, in like manner; and he demanded two months to accomplish...
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History of the Conquest of Peru, Volume 1

William Hickling Prescott - 1874 - 568 pages
...the original form of the articles into which it was manufactured, that the Inca might have «''•,. benefit of the space which they occupied. He further agreed to fill an adjoining room of smaller din )ns twice full with silver, in like manner; and he demanded two months to accomplish all...
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Independent Sixth Reader: Containing a Complete Treatise on ..., Book 6

James Madison Watson - 1875 - 486 pages
...ingots, but to retain the original form of the articles into which it was manufactured, that the inca might have the benefit of the space which they occupied. He further agreed to fill an adjoining room of smaller dimensions twice full with silver, in like manner ; and he demanded two months to accomplish...
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The Independent First[-sixth] Reader ...

James Madison Watson - 1876 - 484 pages
...ingots, but to retain the original form of the articles into which it was manufactured, that the inca might have the benefit of the space which they occupied. He further agreed to fill an adjoining room of smaller dimensions twice full with silver, in like manner ; and he demanded two months to accomplish...
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The Historical Reader: Embracing Selections from Standard Writers of Ancient ...

John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 556 pages
...ingots, but to retain the original form of the articles into which it was manufactured, that the Inca might have the benefit of the space which they occupied. He further agreed to fill an adjoining room of smaller dimensions twice full with silver, in like manner ; and he demanded two months to accomplish...
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Peru, Volume 1

William Hickling Prescott - 1900 - 390 pages
...ingots, but to retain the original form of the articles into which it was manufactured, that the Inca might have the benefit of the space which they occupied. He further agreed to fill an adjoining room of smaller dimensions twice full with silver, in like manner ; and he demanded two months to accomplish...
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Peru, Volume 1

William Hickling Prescott - 1900 - 394 pages
...ingots, but to retain the original form of the articles into which it was manufactured, that the Inca might have the benefit of the space which they occupied. He further agreed to fill an adjoining room at smaller dimensions twice full with silver, in like manner ; and he demanded two months to accomplish...
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