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" granted, or Freedom intended. Afterwards fixty of thefe Adventurers remr–
" ned
into
Spain,
having made
a Divilion
of their Spoils,
which
amounted
to
'' forty or
fif
ry
thoufand Pieces of Eight a Man, befides the fifth which appertai·
'c
ned to His Majefiy. Thefe Perfons departed after
Hernando
Pifarro,
and over–
,, took him at
Nombre
de
Dies,
where they embarked, and returned alcogether
in
cc
company
to
Spain.
Thus we fee
how
all
Authours
agree
together in the
fame
Relation of this matter.
.
Soon after the Departure of
Hernando
Pifarro,
Hernando
de Soto
and
Pedro del Bar-
'
co
returned
from
Cou:o,
giving a Report of the
Riches
which they had feen
in
that
City,
as alfo in
t~e
Temples of
~he
Sun, an?
in
the Palaces of the late Kings,
in the Forrrefs , and
m
the Sanltuanes, and pnvate Cells, where the
Devil
en–
tertained Difcourfes with their Wizards, Priefts, and others his
Votaries;
all
which places
being efteemed facred, were adorned with Gold and
Silver; the
like report was alfo brought
by
the other four Difcoverers. The
Spaniards
being
highly
plea[ed
with this News, were impatient
untill
they
could
cake poffeffion
of thefe
Treafures;
which
that
they
migfit
hafien
with
the
more convenience
and
fecurity, they fpeedily determined the Death of
Atahualpa,
to prevent the infur–
reetions of the People ,
that
with
the more eafe,
and with
the
leafl:
oppofition,
they
might
feize the
Gold
and
Silver
which was lodged
in
the Imperial City, and
in other parts.. Both the
aforefaid
Authours agree
in
all the material circumfiances
relating
to
the
Death
of
Atahualpa;
wherefore we fhall repeat the
very
Words
Qf
Lope:1;; de Gomar;i,
fpedfied
in
the
119th
Chapter
of
his
Book,
che
Title
of
which
is
as
followeth.
C H ' A P. · XXXVI;
Of the Death
of
Atahualpa ;
and how he was arraigned
by
Juflice, and upon the
f
al{e Information and
Tefii111ony
whicb was given againft
hbn.
. · .
...
,
, -THE
Death
of
Atabaliba
was
forwarded
by
a means, the leafl:
expetted,
for
''
Philipilio,
the Interpreter,
falling
in
love with one of the Wives of
At
a–
ce
hatiba,
whom he intended to marry, afcer he was
dead, raifed
a report,
that
· "
AtabAiiha
had
fecretly,
and
under
hand ,
g· en order to raife Men, whereby
" to overcome
the Chriftians,
and free himfelf. So foon as this report came
cc
to be fpread, and
noifed amongct
the
Spaniard.I,
their
Jealoufte
created a Be-
' lief;
fo
that
fome cried out to have him
killed,
for fecurity of their own Lives,
" and
of thofe Kingdoms; others were of opinion, that
they
iliould not imbrue
«
their Hands in the Bloud of fo great a Prince, though never
fo
faulty, but ra·
" ther that they fhould fend him to the Emperour: This certainly had been rhe
'' beet courfe, but the other prevailed
by
means
(as fome report) of that
parry
1
" which came with
Almagro;
for they conceiving that no (bare of the
Spo~
" would appertain unto
diem.,
during the Life of
Atabaliba,
and untill the
cond~·
cc
tions were complied with,
which~
according
to Agreement, were made for his
" ranfome; and
PifarrfJ
being alfo ofopinion, that
hls
Death
would free the
Spa–
"
niardr
of much trouble, and render
die
Conqueft and Po:lfeffion of the Counrrey
" much more eafie, a refolution was taken by general confefit
to
pnt him co
cc
Death.
In order
to
which, that things might appear with a betrer face of Ju–
~
!Hee, an
Endietment
~as
brought againfi liim for the Murther of his
Brother
H11afr11r