. Stories of the three Americas. Their discovery and settlement. ht to inherit his fathers kingdom thanAtahualpa. But theyounger son was agreat favorite with thepeople, and when hisfather was dead, andHuascar had beenmade Inca, Atahualparebelled and made warupon his brother anddefeated him and puthim to death. It was when Peruwas disturbed by thequarrel between theroyal brothers, thatthe conqueror, Pizarro,landed a third time onthe Peruvian considerabledifficulty, for it wasa season of storms,he made his way into the bay of Guayaquil, and landing hismen on the island of Puna, remai
. Stories of the three Americas. Their discovery and settlement. ht to inherit his fathers kingdom thanAtahualpa. But theyounger son was agreat favorite with thepeople, and when hisfather was dead, andHuascar had beenmade Inca, Atahualparebelled and made warupon his brother anddefeated him and puthim to death. It was when Peruwas disturbed by thequarrel between theroyal brothers, thatthe conqueror, Pizarro,landed a third time onthe Peruvian considerabledifficulty, for it wasa season of storms,he made his way into the bay of Guayaquil, and landing hismen on the island of Puna, remained there for a year, when Fernandode Soto joined him with reinforcements. Pizarro had heard of the quarrel between the two royal brothers,and he thought he could use this condition of affairs to his advan-tage by offering to aid one of them against the other. He thereforestarted on his inland march Sept. 24, 1532. He sent messengers toAtahualpa, who was encamped near Caxamarca, beino; on his wayback to his own capital after having conquered hie brother. These. THE INCA HUASCAR. 76 STORIES OF THE THREE AMERICAti. messengers returned with an envoy from the Inca to Pizarro, bring-ing friendly messages, beautiful presents of gold and jewels, andprovisions for the Spaniards. Pizarro marched up the mountainside. It seems very strange that the Inca did not attempt to stop him,for in the mountain passes it would have been very easy to drivehim back and hurl his whole army down the precipices. In manyplaces, says the historian, this road was so precipitous that it waslike the steps of a staircase. But Atahualpa apparently rested secure inthe greater numbers of his army, which then numbered fifty thou-sand men, while the little force which Pizarro was pushing up themountain was less than two hundred. But the fearless Pizarro seem-ed to count size as of but little value, for when he left Tumb(z for themountains, he called his men together, and told them that if anywere afraid to go with
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