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break it, and thus extinguished the feeble life gleam that yet 

 remained ! 



Francisco Martinez de Alcantara and the two pages were 

 killed, and the rest of Pizarro's friends were severely wounded. 



The conspirators left the body, and sallied through the 

 street into the plaza, crying, Long live the king, the tyrant 

 is dead." They then returned to the palace, and sacked it of 

 about a hundred thousand dollars' worth of valuables, and 

 were about to cut off Pizarro's head and place it on the 

 pillory, "but," says the worthy Fray Calancha, "the wife of 

 Juan de Barberan bought it with her tears!" She rolled the 

 body in a coarse sack and secured it with a rope. A slave 

 carried it on his shoulders through a secret door which opened 

 on the river, and around the back of the palace, to the church. 

 As the marqu6s was corpulent, and the distance more than 

 two squares, the slave was compelled by fatigue to drag the 

 body a part of the way along the ground. In a spot where 

 they were making adobes at the time, he put it into a hole 

 and covered it with earth, without sound of bell or ecclesi- 

 astic ceremony ! 



Afterwards the obsequies were hastily celebrated, only by 

 Pedro Lopez, Juan de Barberan and his wife. Time was not 

 allowed them to array the corpse in the style which they 

 deemed befitting its rank. Not a dollar was left in the palace, 

 and they asked alms to defray the expenses of the funeral !* 



"For several years," says Calancha, saw the bones of 

 the marqu6s in a small box, deposited in the sacristy of the 

 Iglesia mayor — principal church at Lima, until it should be 

 finished. And they remained there several years afterwards, 

 because the place of their»sepulture had not been determined. 

 At last the king, in a royal cedula, ordered his body to be 

 placed, together with that of the Viceroy Don Antonio de 

 Mendoza, in a vault near the Altar Mayor." 



* Herrera, Gomara, Zarate, Garcilaso, &c. 



