The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-08

tired of him, and would not give him
a hearing. He settled on an estate in
Seville, and lived there in quite an
obscure way until his death in 1547,
remembered more for his cruelty far
more than for any other characters
tic.
Francisco PfzarrO.
Cortez was helped in his selfish at
tempt to seize the empire of Mexico
by an old and musty prophecy and
by the war between Mexico and the
Tlascalans. which made the latter peo-
ply willing to ally themselves with
MN. In similar way, the still more
wicked invasion of Peru, accomplished
by francisco Pizarro in 1880, was great
ly helped by civil war which was
gong on at the time that he landed
on the coast. These people worshiped
the sun as the Mexicans did, but Got
with cruel human sacrifices. Their
rulers, the Incas. they believed to be
chlldren of the sun. There were no
private estates. no money. The lands
were portioned out to the people every
year, and so were the animals and
the, produce Of the land
There We're quarre.s among the Peru
VANS, however, and the last Inca who
ruled before the Spaniards came had
conquered the province of Quito and
had made a wonderful road along the
mountains from there to CuZco. When
Pizarro entered the country there was
war on between two brothers named
Atahualpa and Huascar. He made his
way into the bay Of Guayaquil, and,
landing his men on the island of Puma,
remained there for year. when Fer
rando de Soto Joined him with rein
forcements. He offered to assist one
of the brothers against the other and
started on his inland march Sept. "A,
1882. Pizarro sent messengers to Alta
hualpa, who had just conquered his
brother, and was answered with b; auti-
full presents of gold and jewels. Atat-
hualpa had $4,000 men and Pizarro
only 200. 1t was when this little band
started up the mountain side to meet
the Peruvians that PiZarro made his
historic remark: II would be ashamed
to die with any man who is afraid to
die with me-
Seizes Atahualpa.
PiZarro soon reached the town of
CaXamarca, which he found quite de-
serted. The town was we'll fortified and
Fizarro encGmped his small army there,
sending a me Messenger to Atahualpa to
come to his camp on a friendly visit.
Atahualpa went with an army, hating
it when he entered the great square.
Pizarro came forward and in the usual
Spanish fashion called priest who was
with him there to expound the Chris
tan religion to the Indians. This was
done through an interpreter, and at
its close the inca uttered a sigh, and
said in the Peruvian tongue: "Alas!'
He had probably not understood much
of the priests theology, but he could
not fall to comprehend the close Of
the argument, which was that unless
Atahualpa would pay tribute, give up
hi Ii rfJGY, To hn enc icl, rnh
obey the pope, believe in Jesus Christ
and renounce idolatry, his kingdom
would be laid waste with fire and
sword.
Atahualpa made some bitter remarks
concerning the cruelties committed by
the Spaniards on their way. He then
stood up in his litter and spoke to his
people in the Peruvian tognue. The
Spaniards chose to understand this as
d signal for attack, and PiZarrO with
his followers, giving the terrible Span
ish war cry, sprang forward. The SOL
diers that he had concealed around the
square were ready and ushed out with
drawn swords. It is not at all prob
able that the Indians had expected a
fight for, excepting those who were
Immediately around the inca, who tried
to defend him, none of them made any
resistance, and hundreds We're Slaugh-
tered while not one OF the Spaniards
who carried the litter were all killed
and the inca was thrown to the ground.
A Spanish soldier rushed at him with
drawn sword, but PaZarro pushed him
aside and received a sharp flesh wound
III so doing, preferring to take the I'M
happy ruler alive.
Atahualpa was first kept as MonteZu-
MA had been, a captive but a nominal
king. He was allowed to see his
courtiers and to send out orders as
long as these suited Pizarro. The
Spanish soldiers had dispersed the
Inca's army and had plundered their
camp, and bands were sent to plumber,
seize and rifle the great cities Of Peru.
There was no resistance anywhere, for
when the people knew that their king
had been captured they gave up every
thing. A nation Of 100000 inhabi-
tants had been overcome by only 160
men by simply capturing their ruler.
Making n Christian.
Pizarro pretended to be very friendly
with the captive king. He preached
to him every day, being determined to
make a Christian of him. He also
taught him to play chess and games
with dice, and amused himself with