. Stories of the three Americas. Their discovery and settlement. ehad convinced himself that Cuzcoought to belong to him—and hemarched up to its walls and orderedthe two Pizarros there, GonzaloandFernando, to give it up. They senta messenger down to Lima, wherethe Marquis Francisco Pizarro was,for orders. Almagro did not waitfor any orders, but, the next night,crept into the town with all hismen. They forced the Pizarros totake refuge in the palace of the Inca,and then, setting this on fire, forcedthem to surrender. Almagro then started toward the sea coast to establish a port for himseK,takin
. Stories of the three Americas. Their discovery and settlement. ehad convinced himself that Cuzcoought to belong to him—and hemarched up to its walls and orderedthe two Pizarros there, GonzaloandFernando, to give it up. They senta messenger down to Lima, wherethe Marquis Francisco Pizarro was,for orders. Almagro did not waitfor any orders, but, the next night,crept into the town with all hismen. They forced the Pizarros totake refuge in the palace of the Inca,and then, setting this on fire, forcedthem to surrender. Almagro then started toward the sea coast to establish a port for himseK,taking Fernando Pizarro with him and leaving Gonzalo inchains. The latter escaped, however, and joined the there was an interview between the elder Pizarro andAlmagro, and an attempt to compromise matters. It wasno use, however, and the two sides were soon at open war. Therewas a furious battle between them, which was watched bythousands of Peruvians from the mountain peaks around, and wemay suppose that these poor, wronged barbarians must have taken. PERILS OF CROSSING THE ANDES. THE FATE OF THE PIZARROS. 91 great satisfaction in seeing their brutal oppressors kill one was defeated, taken and thrown into prison. The Pizarrosdid not dare to have him publicly executed, fearing the indignationon the part of his friends, whom they wanted to conciliate and bringover to their side. So he wa« quietly strangled in prison, and it wasgiven out that he had died of a fit. And his old friend Pizarro pre-tended to be terribly grieved over the occurrence, and shed a largenumber of crocodile tears, to make people think that he loved Alma-gro dearly and never wished to do him harm! This was not the end of the trouble, however, for Almagros sonstill lived, a daring young man, not at all likely to forgive Pizarro,who had made a solemn promise to him that his fathers life shouldbe spared. However, he agreed not to attempt to take vengeanceuntil a judge should arrive fro
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