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upon account of the riches of the country, as well as the planting the faith in the capital 

 of fo great a monarch, and fo in all its dominions : but the governor would not agree to 

 it ; and fo they refolved that Pizarro fhould go to Spain, to propofe it to the King hira- 

 felf. He undertook the voyage ; and, to give more credit to what he fhould fay, he 

 took along with him feveral things proper to the country he had difcovered, as pieces of 

 gold and filver, fome of thofe fheep we have mentioned, and fome of the Indians 

 themfelves clothed after the manner of their country. The King was much pleafed 

 with them ; and Pizarro, in his firft audience, began to propofe the intent of his dif- 

 covery, the great hardihips he had endured, he and his companions going naked, and 

 almofl ftarved, expofed to the mofquitoes and poifoned arrows of the Indians ; and all 

 this, having fpent three years in this fort of life, for the increafe of the Gofpel and His 

 Majefty*s royal dominions. His Majefly heard him with much attention and goodnefs, 

 ihewing great compaffion for his fuiferings, and ordered a gratification for himfelf, and 

 his two companions, as alfo the thirteen who would not forfake him : he received all 

 his memorials, and ordered them to be difpatched to his mind, having firft made an 

 agreement with him proportionably to his great merits. They did not believe in Spain 

 (and that is an old difeafe every where) all that Pizarro faid of the riches of Peru, and 

 of the palaces and houfes of ftone which he had feen, till he fhewed them the pieces 

 of gold and filver which he had brought with him ; and then the fame of that land 

 began to fpread itfelf, and with it the covetoufnefs of Iharing thofe treafures, every one 

 blaming the governor of Panama for not having given the neceifary affiftance to the 

 difcovery. 



Pizarro being difpatched with the title of Adelantado of the firft two hundred leagues 

 he ftiould conquer, having alfo a new coat of arms, and other privileges granted to 

 him ; and taking with him four ftout brothers that he had, he embarked for the Indies 

 with one hundred and twenty-five Caftilians more. He left Sanlucar in January 1530, 

 and arrived at Puerto Bello, where he was received with great joy by his companions 

 and friends, who were all pleafed with the favours the King had beftowed upon them 

 by his means : only Don Diego de Almagro was not fo well pleafed that Pizarro had 

 made a better bargain for himfelf than for him, his partner in all the undertaking ; he 

 made his complaint to him, and refolved to part company, and difcover and conquer 

 by himfelf: but being affured, that as foon as the firft two hundred leagues ftiould be 

 conquered, he would ufe his intereft to have him made Adelantado of two hundred 

 more before any of his brothers ; and fo fuffering himfelf to be perfuaded, they agreed 

 anew, and fell to preparing every thing for their enterprize. He remained at Panama ; 

 and the Adelantado, with his brothers, went from thence with a good crew of men, 

 being to be followed by Almagro, as before. To make ftiort about the things performed 

 by this great conqueror, the great riches he got, and among the reft an emerald as big 

 as an egg, which was prefented to him, we will fuppofe him at the ifland of Pura in 

 war with the Tombezinos ; and there he came to a clearer information of the riches of 

 Cufco, and the ftate in which that monarchy was at prefent : and becaufe he had received 

 a fpecial command, and was himfelf inclined to propagate our facred religion, as the 

 beft means of furthering his own defign, the firft thing he did, in landing upon the 

 continent of Peru, was to build a church to God, to give a beginning to the fpiritual 

 conqueft of fouls. His firft fettlement was at Pura, where was built the firft church 

 that was ever ^refted in thofe kingdoms. "While he was employed in this, he fent out 

 to difcover more lands, to know more of the ftate of the country. There he learnt 

 the divifion that was betweeii the two brothers Guafcar and Atagualpa, which was 

 occafioned by the death of their father Guayanacapa, who was a moft powerful mo- 

 narch. 



