. Robert Ramble's [pseud.] stories selected from the history of England, from the conquest to the revolution . d to court, and exhibited beforeCharles V. all the spoils he had acquired. Theemperor immediately appointed him captain-gen-eral of the country he was about to conquer. Cortez, the cruel Cortez, had, at this time, re-turned to Spain, loaded with plunder; and hadbeen most graciously received by his sovereign ;and, being willing to promote the viewrs of an oldcompanion, with whose talents and courage hewas perfectly acquainted, he gave Pizarro asmuch money as enabled him to fit out thre
. Robert Ramble's [pseud.] stories selected from the history of England, from the conquest to the revolution . d to court, and exhibited beforeCharles V. all the spoils he had acquired. Theemperor immediately appointed him captain-gen-eral of the country he was about to conquer. Cortez, the cruel Cortez, had, at this time, re-turned to Spain, loaded with plunder; and hadbeen most graciously received by his sovereign ;and, being willing to promote the viewrs of an oldcompanion, with whose talents and courage hewas perfectly acquainted, he gave Pizarro asmuch money as enabled him to fit out three smallvessels, with one hundred and forty-four infantry,and thirty-six horsemen. With this handful of men, he set sail for Peru,while Almagro remained at Panama, to follow <_? » with such reinforcements as he should be able tomuster. Pizarro, after a voyage of thirteen days,landed at the Bay of St. Matthew, an hundredmiles north of Tumbez; and, without losing asingle moment, he marched for the province ofCoaque, (see the engraving on the opposite page,)the chief town of which he surprised, and seized. (131) THE CONQUEST OF PERU. 133 all the vessels of gold and silver, and other spoilsof great value. Part of this booty he sent to Almagro, to al-lure new adventurers; and, in a short time, hewas joined by three officers and sixty men. Withthis force, and his former veterans, he erectedthe fort St. Michael, and prepared to invadePeru. At the time he planned this daring enterprise,Peru was involved in a civil war. Two brothers,sons of Capac, the twelfth Inca, were contendingfor the empire. Capac had divided his domin-ions between his sons Atahualpa and Huescar;assigning Quito to one, and the rest of his terri-tory to the other. Now Atahualpa, to whomQuito had been bequeathed, was not of the bloodroyal by both father and mother; but Huescarwas descended of the pure blood royal, both byfather and mother, from the Incas of Peru. Thesefoolish young princes quarrelled and fought; an
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