The herald., 1893-07-16
us hope to the not too great inconveni-
ence of the Peruvians.

received their visitors with delight, and
were doubly charmed" says Mr.. Lum-
mis-, with their exhibitions of horseman-
ship, 1t was necessary to flrst proceed
with little mummery, very character
istie of the people and the age.
So, as Mr.. Lummis says, "the chap
lain OF the little army stepped forth to
meet Atahualpa. 1t was strange con-
trast, the quiet, gray-robed missionary,
with his worn Bible in his hand, facing
the cunning Indian in his golden throne
with golden ornaments and necklace
OF emeralds. Father Valverde spoke.
He said they came as servants of
mighty King and of the true God.
They came as friends, and all they asked
was that the Indian chief should aban-
don his idols and submit to God and ac-
cept the king of Spain as his ally"
That was all They had only to give
up the worahip OF their cherished del
ties, or deity, (for in spite of Mr.. Lum-
mis- assurance that they ''wor-
SHIPPED a bewildering multitude
of gods and idols" it is
pretty certain that the sun-god was vir-
tually the only one worshiped,) / say
they had only to give up the worship
sacred to their fathers for countless gem
OIhblOho aU JbC lAuIdnb DluQlnk VA bhO
gray-robed missionary with his worn
Bible in his hand" and the Gins they
had committed against these invaders
OF their homes would be forgiven them,
and they should not be garrptted or
burned, but only slowly and humanely
worked to death in the mines, toiling to
enrich these benevolent strangers.
Upon an unreasonable and most unae-
countable delay in acceding to these
magnanimous terms, Pizarro naturally
became indignant, and, to again follow
Mr.. Lummis, he s'waved his scarf to
Gambia, and the ridiculous little cannon
on the housetop doomed across the
square. 1t did not hurt anybody, and
was not meant to-it was merely to ter
rify the Indians, who had never heard a
gun, and to give signal for the Spsni-
ards. The descriptions OF how the
smoke from the artillery rolled in sui
phurous volumes along the square,
binding the Peruvians, and making q
thick gloom can best be appreciated
when we remember that all this deadly
cloud had to come from two little pop
cannons that were carried over the
mountains on horseback and three old
hint-lock muskets! Yet in such ridi-
culous fashion have most Of the events
of the conquest been written about.
mot less false and silly are current
descriptions OF the massacre which
ensued. The Spaniards all sailed out
at signal and fell upon the Indians,
and finally drove them from the square.
II YOU like to believe that 1000 were
elain, after you have figured out by easy
arithmetic how msuy people man
would be capable OF killing with sword
or dubbed musket or cross-bow in half
an hours running fight, and multiply
ing by 16S-then you are at perfect lib
erty to do 60; but 200 ia about the right
figure for those killed at Caxamarca.'' =
OF course those cannon "were not
meant to hurt anybody" What we
know OF Pizarro's kindness OF heart for
bids US to believe him capable OF such
an intention.
He was willing to shoot down his en-
to-taises- s.ssit cs.sr4sr 3sytts;a hnTAs
them or to burn them to death-but he
drew the line at canuen!
Mr. Lummis lakes pains to impress
upon the minds of his readers the fact
that these cannon were small. I, for
one, cheerfully admit its probability.
Even before I had the pleasure of read
ing his erndit article, / was free from the
impression that the invaders had car
ried 80'ton guns up the slopes of the
Andes. But shot from small guns may
chance TO hurt some one, when aimed
into crowd, even with the most bene-
VIOLENT intentions, and Notwithstanding
Mr.. Lummis' assurance to the contrary,
l cannot get rid Of an uncomfortable
feeling that some one did get hurt in
consequence OF the explosion of these
ridiculous little pop-cannons.
Everyone must sympathise with Mr..
Lummis in his natura. indignation at
the most unjnstifiable and libelous
charge made against Pizarro that the
result OF this massacre--I beg his par
don, l mean this ''brilliant strategy
was 1000 slain.
He says 1900 is about the right figure, ("
and as it must be apparent TO all who
read his article that he is acquainted
with all the secret thoughts of these old
Peruvians, We must of course accept
these figures as final.
This OF course puts a different face
upon the matter. Only 200! Only a
little over one apiece for these poor
hungry menl And here we havo for
three centuries and s half beon crediting
them with 10 times the number and
doubtless should have gone on doing the
came for three centuries more but for the
advent of Lummisl
After the capture OF Atahualpa, to
again follow our chronicler, she ad-
mitted-with the characteristic brayado
OF an Indian, whose traditional habit is
to show his courage by taunting his cap
tors-that he had let them como in, ee.
cure in his overwhelming numbers, to
make slaves of such as pleased him, and
put the rest tc death"
This is the invaders' version, the Peru
Wan left no spokesman to give his.
In like manner, everything the poor
Peruvians did or refrained from doing
was construed into an insult or men
ace by the invaders. Mr.. Lummls
speaks OF suspicious movements" with.
out explaining why they were suspi-
cious. The fact (or alleged fact) that
Caxamarca was deserted is called ''ee-
rious and dangerous omen" He claims
to pry into the inmost thoughts of Alta
hualpa, when, in describing his visit to
Pizarro. he says he twas certainly not
above curiosity, unconcerned as he
seemed. This new sort of men was too
interesting to be exterminated at once.
He wished to see more OF them, and 80
came, but perfectly confident, as a cruel
boy might be with fly. He could watch
its buzzings for bit, and whenever he
was tired of that he had but to turn
down his thumb and smash the fly upon
the pane"
Atahualpa has given no evidence re.