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Royal Commentaries.
BooK
I.
To
the
fixty
Horfemen
in
Gold----------·--1036800
Ducats.
and
in Silver-
129600
To the hundred Foot-fouldiers
in
Gold-
1
296000
and in Silver
162000
To the
2
4
0
Men \ ·hich came with
A lm1tgro
in
Gold-
25
920
0
and in
ilve1
12000
To
A lrnagro
himfelf in
Gold
43200
and in Silver
1
2000
The fifth dedueted
from
the
Gold
786600
and from the Silver-
126900
The difference of the refined Silver above the Standard
38
1
7
o
So that the fumm total of the Ranfome of
A tahualpA
amounted unto
4 6o 5 6 7 o
Ducats, ofwhich fumm
393 3000 Ducats
are the value of the
Gold,
and the
6ri.6
7
o
Ducats are the value of the
~ilver,
accounting
therein the
advantage
upon the fine–
nefs above the
Standard ;
both which fumms together
amount
to the aforefaid
total of
46os670
Ducats.
This was the valae of thofe Riches which thes
pani–
ard.t
gained in
Peru,
but
much
greater was that which they found in
Co~o,
when they
made their entrance
into
that
City,
as ,Gomara
and
Ca-1ate
report, and as we fhall
de–
clare hereafter
in
its
due
place.
BIM
Valera
faith, that the Ranfome of
Atahualpa
a–
mounted
unto 4800000 Ducats, the
which
he reports on the Authority
of rhe
In–
dians,
who had
fee
down
an
account
by
their
knots of
every
particular parcel
which was brou_ght
from
the feveral Provinces; bur we !hall rather follow the ac–
count given
by
our Hifiorians herein, than that of the
Indians;
though
Bla1 ValerA
differs from the others, and makes the fumm greater
by
1943 3
o
Ducats, than what
.
is
before
mentioned.
In thofe
former times fuch
great
fumms
feemed
incredible,
becaufe they
were
not known,
though
now
they
create no great
Wonder, fince
it
is
manifefi, 'hat
for
thefe thirty years pafi, there have
been
imported ten or twelve
Millions every year
in
the River of
GuadAlqNivir;
the which my Countrey having
fent as an Offering
to
Spain,
and
all
the o1d World, hath
thereby
been
more pro–
fitable to Strangers, than kind and natural to her
own
Children.
Gomara
in the 118th. Chap. of his Book fpeaking of this Ranfome, hath thefe
Words.
"
Franci(co Pifarro
fent
the
fifth
part
of liis Spoils, together with a Re–
" lation of his Succefies,
by
his Brother
Hernando,
unto the Emperour,
and
with
'' him returned many of the Souldiers very rich, with twenty, 'thirty and forty
'' choufand
Ducats
a
Man.
In
fhort, they
brought
away almofi: all the Gold
fil–
'' ling
the Bank of
Seville
with Money, and the World
with
the fame and dif–
cc
courfe thereof,
and
with defires of that enterprife.
Thus
far are the Words of
Gomara.
It
is
well known, that
thofe
who returned were
fixry
in number. The
Governour
!hared
to
his
Companion
120000
Ducats, being fo much as
appertai–
ned to
him out of
his proportion. To
Hernando de Luque,
the Schoolmafier,
no–
rhing was divided, becaufe it was
known,
that he being already failed, ct>uld be
no farther ufefull,
fo
that Hifiorians have no occafion
to
make
ocher
mention
concerning
him.
CHAP.