History of the Conquest of Peru: With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas, Volumen2

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Página 467 - Luque llevaredes, que ha de ser por iguales partes todos tres, así de los aprovechamientos que con nuestras personas tuviéremos y ventajas de las partes que nos cupieren en la guerra y en los despojos y ganancias y suertes que en la dicha tierra del Perú hubiéremos y gozaremos y nos cupieren por cualquier vía y forma que sea...
Página 173 - But it was left open, and the assailants, hurrying through to the inner court, still shouting their fearful battle-cry, were met by two domestics loitering in the yard. One of these they struck down. The other, flying in all haste towards the house, called out, "Help, help! the men of Chili are all coming to murder the marquess!
Página 467 - ... recibimos luego en las dichas barras de oro que pasaron de vuestro poder al nuestro en presencia del escribano de esta carta, que lo valió y montó; y yo Hernando del Castillo doy fe que los vide pesar los dichos veinte mil pesos en las dichas barras de oro, y...
Página 80 - ... been more cruel than Pizarro's ; and many of Almagro's men, it may be remembered, were recruited from that source The commander looked with displeasure, it is said, on these enormities, and did what he could to repress them. Yet he did not set a good example in his own conduct, if it be true that he caused no less than thirty Indian chiefs to be burnt alive for the massacre of three of his followers...
Página 489 - JUNE i2, i536. [This agreement between these two celebrated captains, in which they bind themselves by solemn oaths to the observance of what would seem to be required by the most common principles of honesty and honor, is too characteristic of the men and the times to be omitted. The original exists in the archives at Simancas.] Nos D...
Página 329 - Infirm as I am in body, the repose of my own home would have been more grateful to me than this dangerous mission; but I will not shrink from it at the bidding of my sovereign, and if, as is very probable, I may not be permitted again to see my native land, I shall at least be cheered by the consciousness of having done my best to serve its interests.
Página 465 - You must give me two thousand." "Five hundred is the most I will offer." "You must pay me more than a thousand." "A thousand pesos, then," cried the captain in a rage; "I will give you, though I do not own them; but I will find sufficient security for their future payment.
Página 470 - LA REINA : — Por cuanto vos el capitan Francisco Pizarro, vecino de Tierra firme, llamada Castilla del Oro, por vos y en nombre del venerable padre D.
Página 469 - Quiro, a los cuales otorgantes yo el presente escribano doy fe que conozco. Don Fernando de Luque. — A su ruego de Francisco Pizarro — Juan de...
Página 47 - Piru, MS. — Herrera, Hist. Ge- Pedro Pizarro, Descub. y Conq.. neral, dec. 5, Kb. 8, cap. 4. — MS. Gomara, Hist. de1aslnd.,cap. 133. hensiou to the morrow. It was early in February, 1536. when the siege of Cuzco commenced ; a siege memorable as calling out the most heroic displays of Indian and European valor, and bringing the two races in deadlier conflict with each other than had yet occurred in the conquest of Peru.

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