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Don Francisco Pizarro, who had only a few companions but was 

 more aided by Heaven's favor and Divine order than by his own 

 Strength. With his few Spaniards he attacked this proud rebellious 

 King, accompanied by the multitude of his subjects ; he killed many 

 of them, captured him and put him in chains, and shut him up in 

 a strong room which the savage offered to cram full of gold if they 

 would free him — a room I saw many times when I was in that 

 Kingdom. And together with this offer and while still a captive of 

 the Spaniards, he decided to keep the imperial power and sent word 

 to kill the unfortunate natural lord of that country. This they carried 

 out by bringing him under guard into the jurisdiction of the Province 

 of Huamachuco, some 12 leagues before reaching Cajamarca, and 

 they drowned him in a river not far from Cajabamba, thus disposing 

 of him without burial. This took place at the close of the year 1531, 

 shortly after the rebel was captured ; and that was the end of the 

 legitimate empire and monarchy of the Incas, at the completion of 

 500 years from the beginning of their reign. 



1587. This dynasty began with the great Mango Capac, first King 

 of the Incas, in the year 1031. He reigned 40 years, and was suc- 

 ceeded by his son Sinchi Roca, who reigned 34. Lloque Yupangui, 

 son of Sinchi Roca, reigned 36 years ; he was succeeded by his son 

 Mayta Capac, who reigned 30 years. Capac Yupangui, son of Mayta 

 Capac, reigned 40 years ; Inca Roca, son of Capac Yupangui, 50 ; 

 Yahuar Huacac, son of Inca Roca, 30 ; Inca Viracocha, son of Yahuar 

 Huacac, 60; Pachacutec, son of Viracocha, 60; Inca Yupangui, son 

 of Pachacutec Yupangui, 30; Tupac Inca, son of Inca Yupangui, 40; 

 Huayna Capac, son of Tupac Inca, 42 ; his son was the unfortunate 

 Huascar, who began his reign in the year 1523, and died at the 

 order and command of the rebel Atahualpa his brother, in the manner 

 described, in the year 1531. 



But God in His Divine Providence had so ordained it [there], in 

 order that His Holy Gospel might be preached in those regions so 

 far distant. He had permitted the discord between the two Kings 

 to grow ; it had been sowed by the Father of Discord, who had been 

 so securely established over those blind peoples, and he had his 

 scratching for his pains, for he was deprived of them and cast out 

 at the introduction of the Holy Gospel. By natural means it would 

 have been impossible for so few Spaniards to win so great an empire, 

 without God's having ordained it by the means described. 



1588. The rebel King Atahualpa paid the penalty immediately and 

 without delay for the cruelties he had perpetrated on his brother and 

 his relatives; God sent messengers of justice (alguaciles), viz, the 



