Excerpt from The Bride of the Sun A moment later he had left the ship's side and was nearing the shore the Eldorado of his young ambition, the land Of gold and legends, the Peru of Pizarro and the Incas. Then the thought of a young girl's face blotted out those dreams to make way for new ones. The monotonous outline of the waterfront brought no disappointment. Little did he care that the city stretched out there before his eyes was little more than a narrow, unbeautiful blur along the sea coast, that there were none Of those towers, steeples or minarets with which our ancient ports beckon out to sea that the trav eler is welcome. Even when his boat had passed the Mole, and they drew level with the modern works of the Muelle Darsena, well cal culated to excite the interest of a younger engi neer, he remained indifferent. He had asked the boatman where the Calle de Lima lay, and his eyes hardly left the part Of the city which had been pointed out to him in reply. At the landing stage he threw a hand 'full of centavos to his man, and shouldered his way through the press of guides, interpreters, hotel touts and other waterside parasites. 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.