tailieunhanh - An Account of the Conquest of Peru

Concerning the great quantity of silver and gold which was brought from Cuzco, and of the portion thereof which was sent to H. M. the emperor as the royal fifth: How the imprisoned Cacique Atabalipa declared himself free of his promise which he had made to the Spaniards to fill a house with gold for ransom: And of the treason which the said Atabalipa meditated against the Spaniards, for which betrayal they made him die. | Account of the Conquest of Peru by Pedro Sancho 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX Chapter 10. Account of the Conquest of Peru by Pedro Sancho Project Gutenberg s An Account of the Conquest of Peru by Pedro Sancho This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title An Account of the Conquest of Peru Account of the Conquest of Peru by Pedro Sancho Author Pedro Sancho 2 Translator Philip Ainsworth Means Release Date September 12 2008 EBook 26602 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU Produced by Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Canadian Libraries DOCUMENTS AND NARRATIVES CONCERNING THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF LATIN AMERICA PUBLISHED BY THE CORTES SOCIETY NEW YORK NUMBER TWO Edition limited to 250 copies of which ten are on Kelmscott paper This copy is Number 85 AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU WRITTEN BY PEDRO SANCHO SECRETARY TO PIZARRO AND SCRIVENER TO HIS ARMY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH AND ANNOTATED BY PHILIP AINSWORTH MEANS THE CORTES SOCIETY NEW YORK 1917 COCKAYNE BOSTON TRANSLATOR S PREFACE The work of Pedro Sancho is one of the most valuable accounts of the Spanish conquest of Peru that we possess. Nor is its value purely historical. The Relación of Sancho gives much interesting ethnological information relative to the Inca dominion at the time of its demolition. Errors Pedro Sancho has in plenty but the editor has striven to counteract them by footnotes. In .