Chap. III. P E R U and CHILL 
united againft him, under Manco Capac, the Brother and 
Heir of Huefcar^ whom they proclaimed Eiriperor of 
Cuzco. WhtKUpon Pizarro proclaimed ‘Poparpa, a Son 
of Atahuallpa,. Emperor •, caufed him to wear the Impe- 
rial Coronet, and to be treated with the fame Honours his 
Father had been, iffuing fuch Orders in his Name, as 
might bell ferve the Intereft of the Spaniards ; but this 
Inca died foon after \ and fo Pizarro conjefturing that 
nothing could tend to eftablifh the Spanijh Dominion in 
PerUy more than his poffeffing himfelf of the capital City 
of Cuzcoy he began his March thither with all his Forces, 
confifting of near four hundred Men, befides fuch as were 
{filed confederate Indians. 
In the mean time Atauchiy Brother to the late Emperor 
Atahuallpay having collefted a great Quantity of Trea- 
fure, to purchafe his Brother’s Ranfom, brought it to 
Caxamalca-, but finding Atahuallpa murdered, and the 
Spaniards marched from thence, determined to be revenged 
on them, and joining his Forces with fomePeraw^;^ Gene- 
rals, furprifed the Spaniards upon their March to CuzcOy 
killed fome of them and made feveral Prifoners, and 
amongfc the reft SaJicho de Cuellary who had drawn up the 
Procefs againft the late Inca AtahuallpUy and attended his 
Execution, With thefe Prifoners the Indian Generals re- 
tired again to Caxamahay where they ftrangled Sancho the 
Spaniardy at the very fame Poft where their Emperor was 
put to death •, but undcrftanding that Francis de ChaveSy 
Ferdinando dellaroy and fome of the reft of their Prifoners, 
had protefted againft the Inca’s Death, they refolved to 
give them their Lives and Liberties, entering into the 
following Articles of Peace and Friendlhip with the captive 
Spaniards hdo^t they difmifted them ; Viz. That neither 
Party fhould, for the future, offer any Violence to the 
other ; and particularly. That the Spaniards ftiould not at- 
tempt to depofe ivlanco Capacy who had been proclaimed 
Cuzco y and was the lawftil Heir of the Inca Atahuallpa ; 
That both Sides fliouid rdeafe their Prifoners; and. That 
the S])aniards fhould not treat the Indians as Slaves, but 
Freemen : That the Laws of their Country fhould be 
obferved inviolably when not repugnant tothofe of Chrifti- 
anity ; and that this Treaty Ihould be ratified by the Spanijh 
General, and his Sovereign the Emperor of the Romans. 
. The Spaniards infifted, on their Part, That the In- 
dians Ihould profefs the Chriftian Religion : That a Part 
of the Country fhould be affigned them for their Subfift- 
ance ; and, That they might retain the Indians as hired 
Servants, though not as Slaves ; which the Indians agreed 
to ; and difmiffed their Prifoners with rich Prefents. But 
Pizarro ^ and AlmagrOy at firft, pofitively refufed to ratify 
the Articles, and would hear of nothing but an abfolute 
Submiffion, and an entire Surrender of their Country and 
their Perfons, to the Will of the Chriftians : Which oc- 
tafioned long and bloody Wars afterwards. Whereas 
the Spanijh Hiftorians admit they might have eftabliftred 
Ghriftianity in P^ra without fpilling a Drop of Blood, if 
the Amoition and Avarice of the Adventurers had not 
prevented it. The General P/z^zrr<7, continuing his March 
towards Cuzcoy was again attacked by feveral Parties of 
the Indians at fome difficult Paffes in the Mountains ; but, 
finding themfelves unable to refift the Fire-arms and Hiorfes 
of the Chriftians, they fled, after a faint Refiftance, to 
the capital City, declaring it was in vain for any human 
Force to oppofe the Spaniardsy who were armed with 
Thunder and Lightning, and could kill their Enemies 
at fo many hundred Yards diftance. Whereupon the 
People of Cuzco y without offering to defend the Walls, or 
that impregnable Caftle already mentioned, fled with their 
Wives and Children, and what was moft valuable to them, 
to the Vfoods and M.ountains ; and Pizarro entered the 
City without Oppofition, in the Month of OAoberyiao^y 
fynere he met with a prodigious Booty, notwithftanding 
the Citizens had fo miuch time to carry off their Goods 
and Treallires. 
^ We have not room here to enter into a long Account, 
either of the Particulars, or of theAmount, of the immenfe 
Wedth, vdiich the Spaniards fay was found in this City ; 
^^’'^tfelves with obferving, that as it was 
^ ^ u Country to bury with their great Men 
the belt part of the Riches of which they died poffeffed, 
VoL. II. Numb. 79. ^ . 
fo their Conquerors, who made no fort of Difficulty of 
rifling Sepulchres as well as Temples, found not only as 
much Wealth in the Dwellings of the Dead, but rather 
more, than in the Habitations of the Living ; fo that fuch, 
as rate the Plunder of this City at the lowefc, compute it 
at the full Value of Atahuallpa^ s P. 3 ,nfom. When the 
General Francis Pizarro had thus got into his Elands the 
Capital of P eru, from whence the Inca Manco CapaCy and 
the greateft part of the Inhabitants were fled, he thought fit 
to invite them to return to their Dwellings, apprehending, 
if they were made defperate, that the v/hole Pov/er of 
the Empire might affemble againft him, and reduce him 
to great Streights by cutting off his Provifions, though 
they durft not meet him fairly in the Field. 
The IndianSy accepting Pizarro\ Invitation, returned to 
their Eloufes in CuzcOy and even the Inca made fome 
Overtures to him, intimating, that he flaould be content 
to embrace tlie Chriftian Religion, and hold his Domi- 
nions of the*Emperor of the Romans y provided, that neb 
ther he rfor his Subjedts fhould be molefted for the future, 
in thejr Perfons or Eftates : And, being encouraged by 
Pizado to believe he fhould have the Terms he demand- 
ed, the Inca came in Perfon to CuzcOy and had an Inter- 
view Mth the Spanijh General, who caufed him to be 
crowned, and invefted in the Empire, by binding the 
royal Wreath, or Coronet about his Head, and proclaim- 
ing him Inca in the fame manner his Predeceffors ufed to be' 
inaugurated into that Dignity ; and affured the Inca he 
would ftridfly obferve the Capitulation made by Francis do 
Chaves. Thefe pacific Meafures the Spaniards found them-^ 
felves under a Neceffity of taking at this time, not only 
becaufe they faw all the fouthern Provinces of Peru affem- 
bling againft them under the Inca Manco Capac ; but be- 
caufe Rumnaviy ^JfquiSy and other Peruvian Generals^ 
had colledfed a very great Army in the fouthern Pro- 
vinces, and poffeffed themfelves of FjuitOy which obliged 
him to fend out a confiderable Detachment of his Forces, 
under the Command of SehaJHan Belalcazary to reinforce 
the new Colony at St. MichaeV^y and to make Head 
againft the Peruvian Generals in ^ito. 
dhisMeaftire was takem with great Wifdom and Pru- 
dence, and the Commander laft mentioned, upon his 
Arrival at St. Michael Zy found there a great Reinforce- 
ment of Volunteers, v/ho came from different Parts of the 
Spanijh Settlements, in order to obtain a Share in the 
Riches of P eru. Out of thefe he chofe one hundred and 
twenty F oot, and fourfeore Horfe ; which having 
incorporated into his own Army, he marched diredl- 
ly to ^itOy in order to make himfelf Mafter of the 
Riches of the deceafed Atahuallpay moft of which he 
knew remained there. The Indian General, who com- 
manded in that Province, did all that lay in his Power to 
harrafs and fatigue the Spanijh Army, and to prevent their 
coming to a decifive Adfion ; but this turning to no 
Account, and finding that Belalcazar continued to ad- 
vance diredly to the Capital, he caufed all the Riches of 
the late umperor to be brought into the Hall of the 
Palace, to which he let fire : and then, abandoning the 
City, marched off with his Troops, and left Bat Spaniards 
in poffeffion of the Place : But while Francis Pizarro and 
his Officers were thus einployed in the Redudlion of the 
feveral Provinces of the Empire, they were fuddenly in- 
terrupted by an unexpefted Invafion from their Country- 
men in who on the Report of the vaft Wealth 
obtained by thefe Adventurers, refolved to come in for a 
Part. The Story is too remarkable, and too dofely con- 
neded vdth our Subjed to be entirely negleded, and 
therefore we fhall endeavour to give the Subftance of it in 
the concifeft manner poffible. 
The famous Peter de Alveradoy of whom we have 
faid fo much in the foregoing Sedion, w^as the Perfon 
who formed this Projed, and the Condition he Was in at 
that time, gave him a fair Opportunity of putting it in 
Execution ; He w^as pofleffed of the Province of Guati- 
malay where he fitted out fe\^eral Ships, and, to increafehis 
Force, he feized upon two Vefiels more that were adtially 
fitting out in one of the Ports cd Nicaraguay for the Service 
c^f Pizarro ; and on board thele Ships he embarked five 
hundred Horfe and Foot, as good Troops as any that 
