Relation of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru, by Pedro Pizarro Volume 2 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1921 Excerpt: ... RELATION continued Relation Of The Discovert And Conquest Op The Kingdoms Of Peru, And Of The Govern-Ment And Arrangements Which The Na-Tives Of Them Formerly Had, And Of The Treasures Which Were Found Therein, And Of The Other Events Which Have Taken Place In Those Realms Up To The Day On Which The Relation Was Signed By Pedro Pizarro, A Conqueror And Settler Of Those Said Kingdoms, And A Citizen Of The City Of Arequipa, In The YEAR 1571 VOLUME II The Marquis, having set out from Cuzco, went to Xauxa in order to found there a city of Spaniards, and there he found Soto and. Mango Inga. They had returned, because the warriours whom Quizquiz led were now routed by the attack which the Spaniards delivered against them, and, in his Soto's pursuit, he had gone beyond Atavillos, where Ml Quizquiz had disappeared, fleeing with some few Indians toward Quito, where afterwards he was killed by the Indian natives, because the Spaniards never had him in their hands. Don Diego de Almagro with some Spaniards went to Quito, because news was received that Don Pedro de Alvarado had disembarked at Puerto Viejo with five hundred men from Guatimala and that he was even now traversing the mountains between Puerto Viejo and Quito, as indeed he was. In this city of Quito was Benalcazar with some troops he had gathered, by command of the Marquis, at Tangarala, who had come thither from Nicaragua after it Tangarala was founded. To this Benalcazar the Marquis sent a message from Caxamalca, ordering him to collect all the troops I mention and as many more as might be found and to go to Quito so as to occupy that land in his Pizarro's name, because he was suspicious lest some captain come and occupy this province of Quito on the ground that it was not settled by Spaniards. Having arri...