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he did bring him to Cuzco ; but there the Viceroy, who had been a 

 great governor in every respect, failed to show Christian mercy ; 

 he was ill advised, brought the innocent prince to trial, and unjustly 

 sentenced him to death by decapitation ; and although the innocent 

 prince begged for mercy and appealed from the decision, asking to 

 be sent to His Majesty in Spain, and was supported in this by all 

 the nobivity and the religious orders in that Kingdom, the Viceroy 

 would not grant it, and so after he had been baptized, he was beheaded, 

 to the deep regret of the Spaniards and the Indians at the Viceroy's 

 great heartlessness. [And the noble knight Fernando Pizarro]. 



Chapter XCVII [ ] (94) 



Of the Imperial City of Cuzco, and Its Grandeur and Majesty 

 since Its Occupation by the Spaniards. 



1598. The imperial city of Cuzco, another Rome for those austral 

 regions, mother and home of so many kings and monarchs, won and 

 governed with her arms and laws all those Kingdoms and tribes 

 which for a period of 500 years she held subject to her heathen sway. 

 But at their end God Our Lord illumined her with the light of His 

 Holy Gospel, bringing her sons and subjects up out of the darkness 

 of heathendom, through the spirit and invincible courage of Marques 

 Don Francisco Pizarro and his brothers and friends ; thus he gave 

 God so many souls, and His Majesty so many and such opulent 

 Kingdoms. 



Cuzco lies 140 leagues SW. of the city of Lima, at scant i5°S. 

 Its climate has been described ; it is abundantly supplied with cheap 

 and delicious food supplies — wheat, corn, potatoes, all sorts of Spanish 

 and native cereals, abundance of fruit, cattle, sheep, hogs, and llamas, 

 vineyards, sugar plantations with splendid mills producing large 

 amounts of sugar and excellent and delicious preserves, with greatly 

 appreciated "orejones" (dried rings) of peaches, the best in the 

 world, quite different from the old-time "orejones" of Cuzco — the 

 Incas by privilege of the kings of those heathen days, from whom 

 are descended the "orejones" who live in Cuzco today, knightly gentle- 

 men of acknowledged nobility. 



1599, The city has a large population, with over 3,000 Spaniards, 

 many knights and nobles, encomenderos, descendants of the earliest 

 pioneers in that Kingdom, together with many other Spaniards of 

 honorable, distinguished, and middle class, and mestizos, sons of 

 Spaniards and Indian women, here called Montafieses, from among 

 whom have arisen very valiant and courageous warriors, servants of 

 His Majesty who suffer great trials at all crises — all these form a 



