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100 1 _aAlcock, Deborah,
_d1835-1913
245 1 0 _aUnder the Southern Cross
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-23
508 _aRichard Hulse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _aUnder the Southern Cross by Deborah Alcock is a historical novel written in the early 20th century. Set in sixteenth-century Peru, it follows Fray Fernando, a Franciscan sent to a remote Andean mining outpost, and José—Viracocha Yntip Churi—an Inca child he rescues and baptizes, whose lineage and loyalties challenge Spanish rule. As Fernando struggles with inner torment and growing compassion amid colonial brutality, José’s identity and hope that “the Inca will reign again” test faith, conscience, and allegiance. The opening of Under the Southern Cross introduces Fray Fernando’s assignment from Lima to the desolate Cerro Blanco mine, where African slaves toil under the harsh intendant Diego Rascar and the powerful slave Pepe. After interrupting a forbidden rite and hosting passing soldiers, Fernando acquires a captured Inca boy from Don Ramon de Virves—trading a cherished relic—and christens him José. José mourns his murdered mother, clings to the friar, falls gravely ill, and revives when laid in the sun, later revealing his Inca heritage and recounting legendary Inca history and a quiet monotheistic strain beneath sun-worship. Years pass: José learns, serves at the altar, yet inwardly remains Viracocha; on Christmas he seeks leave to visit his people, returns months later in native dress, and, in a tense confrontation, details the Spaniards’ abuses—broken aqueducts, extorted tribute, the mita to mines and obrajes, kidnappings, and dying men—rejecting Spanish ways as Fernando, shaken, listens in dismay. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: T. Nelson and Sons, 1900
653 _aPeru -- History -- 1548-1820 -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/undersoutherncro00alco
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77308
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