. Robert Ramble's [pseud.] stories selected from the history of England, from the conquest to the revolution . is hard fate. Guatimozin reprovedhim thus:— My friend, thinkest thou that I amon a bed of roses? Even the cruel heart ofCortez was touched with this speech; and themonster had the humanity to hang the unfortu-nate Guatimozin, without the formality of a trial!By these and other acts of cruelty, Cortez tar-nished the lustre of his arms, and the glory of theSpanish name. He was both a robber and amurderer; for he took, by violence, the propertyof the Mexicans, and he killed them, by ever
. Robert Ramble's [pseud.] stories selected from the history of England, from the conquest to the revolution . is hard fate. Guatimozin reprovedhim thus:— My friend, thinkest thou that I amon a bed of roses? Even the cruel heart ofCortez was touched with this speech; and themonster had the humanity to hang the unfortu-nate Guatimozin, without the formality of a trial!By these and other acts of cruelty, Cortez tar-nished the lustre of his arms, and the glory of theSpanish name. He was both a robber and amurderer; for he took, by violence, the propertyof the Mexicans, and he killed them, by everyand by all methods, till he conquered their coun-try. The gold and silver of the Mexicans weretheir own, and, whoever took it from them, werethieves: they were at peace with the Spaniards, 120 THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO. who invaded their territory, and shot them inthousands, for no other reason but to acquiretheir wealth. In whatever light we view Cortez,he was a bold and a bad man. But Charles of his conduct. In the lives of Charlesand Cortez, we see the saying verified—Likemaster, like 10. THE CONQUEST OF PERU. I AM now about to relate to you a brief historyof the conquest of Peru, by Pizarro. But I mustfirst tell you how the Spaniards became acquaint-ed with Peru. On the isthmus of Darien, whichseparates North from South America, one Vascode Balboa established a small colony. An Indiancazique, or chief, told Balboa, that, at the dis-tance of six suns, or six days journey, there wasanother ocean, near which lived people who useddishes and furniture made of gold and was the first intimation that the Spaniardshad of Peru. It instantly occurred to the intrepid Balboa,that this was the ocean sought for by Columbus;and that, as it led to a country so rich, that coun-try must be the East Indies; so very ignorantwere the early Spaniards with respect to thegeographical position of the countries on the faceof the globe. (121) 122 THE CONQUEST OF PERU. Wi
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