WHALING VOYAGE. 
CHAPTER II. 
We now continued our course, still keeping the land 
in sight — the land of Peru* the land of gold, and 
of the sun-worshippers ; of terrific earthquakes, of 
the volcanic Andes, or Cordilleras, of the vast and ver- 
dant Pampas ; the land of the people who were basely 
conquered by Pizarro, himself a mere bastard and swine- 
feeder, who, with his compeers, Diego de Almagro and 
Hernando Lugue, the former a foundling and the latter 
a priest and schoolmaster, who found money for the 
expedition, managed, by their wily schemes, revolting 
cruelties, base ingratitude, and horrible treachery, to 
conquer a harmless, virtuous, and industrious people ; 
destroyed their liberty, robbed them of their homes, their 
wealth, and the land of their birth, caused them to obey 
the most obnoxious and tyrannical laws, and at last 
crowning the direful catalogue of crimes which stain the 
annals of that conquest, by the murder of 6 1 Tupac 
Amaru,” the last king of the Children of the Sun. 
An instance of their conduct to Atabalipa, one of 
their incas or kings, will plainly shew the nature of 
the arts which the Spaniards employed to conquer the 
unfortunate Peruvians. The Inca Atabalipa having 
been taken prisoner in an engagement which he and his 
subjects had with Pizarro and his band, quickly disco- 
vered that the ruling passion of the Spaniards was 
