Excerpt from The History of South America, From the Discovery of the New World by Columbus, to the Conquest of Peru by Pizarro: Interspersed With Amusing Anecdotes, and Containing a Minute Description of the Manners and Customs, Dress, Ornaments, and Mode of Warfare of the Indians The vast length of this voyage, with the furious storms encountered by Diaz, so alarmed and intimidated the Portao gusse, that some time was required to prepare their minds for the prosecution and accomplishment of their great deo sign - the passing of that southern promontory, called, by the king of Portugal, the Cape of Good Hope. In the interval, an event occurred, no less extraordinary than unexpected, which forms the subject of this history - the discovery of a new continent, situated in the west. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.