. Colonial children . , ordering them to send twothousand Indians, laden with gold and silver. After no. 6] Room Full of Gold 15 some days, several of the family of Atahuallapa was his brother, who came from Cuzco, andsisters and wives. The brother brought many vases,jars, and pots of gold and much silver, and he saidthat there were moreon the road ; but thatas the journey waslong, the Indians whowere bringing thetreasure became tiredand could not comeso quickly, but thatevery day more goldand silver would ar-rive. And it some days twentythousand, on othersfifty or sixty
. Colonial children . , ordering them to send twothousand Indians, laden with gold and silver. After no. 6] Room Full of Gold 15 some days, several of the family of Atahuallapa was his brother, who came from Cuzco, andsisters and wives. The brother brought many vases,jars, and pots of gold and much silver, and he saidthat there were moreon the road ; but thatas the journey waslong, the Indians whowere bringing thetreasure became tiredand could not comeso quickly, but thatevery day more goldand silver would ar-rive. And it some days twentythousand, on othersfifty or sixty thou-sand pesos of goldarrived. The Gov-ernor ordered it tobe put in the housewhere Atahuallapahad his guards, andto be stored thereuntil he had accom-plished what he hadpromised. And so the gold was delivered to the Christians by worth aboutlittle and little and slowly, because it was necessary $17,500,000 . 1 t i- i. 1 1 i. r -ii inourmoney. to employ many Indians who had to go from village to village to collect A peso = a dollar. A SPANIARD IN ARMOR. The Spanish The Governor ordered the king de- pieces of gold to be counted, and the trold vessels and r o rt certain fixed plates to be melted down and weighed. manded aIt was found s treasuresfound in thenew gotthe gold,PizarromurderedAtahuallpa,and enslavedthe people. 16 Discovery of America [No. 7 that there was over three million pesos of good this, Governor Pizarro had as his share two hun-dred thousand pesos of gold and fifty thousand of sil-ver. The royal fifth was set aside for the Spanishking. All the rest was divided among all the con-querors who had accompanied Governor Pizarro, andthe men who had been friendly to them during theexpedition. Thus every one of Pizarros helpers inthe country received something out of this room fullof gold. This is oneof the unsuc-cessfulexpeditionsmade by Sotoexpected tofind gold asPizarro haddone. Caravel = afour-mastedship. 7. Buried in the Mis
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