The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-28
TREACHERY CAUSED
 CONQUEST OF |NCAS
Story of Pizarro's Great
 Success in Peru

From the Kansas City Times.
 A country where gold was valued for it's beauty only and where precious stones were so plentiful that they could be picked up in the streets and used as slungshot to hurl at birdsl
 It is no wonder that such stories of the wealth of the Incas of Peru led Fran cisco Pizarro and his band of followers to endure untold hardships that they might possess some of this fabulous treasure. But their success was due more to their treachery and brutality than to stalwart bravery.
 The Incas believed that they were de- scended from sons and daughters of the sun who had founded Cuzco. the capital of the Incas Here was erected vast "Temple of the sun and a great golden effigy of the sun. consisting of a central face of furnished gold with numerous blazing rays radiating to the roof. It was solid gold, studded with gems, forming beautiful apparition of the deity from whom the Incas had descended.
 Roasting this celestial origin, the Inca Capac, or great and powerful lord, con- sidered himself vastly superior to the common people. His word was law. All the great treasures were gathered for him. The people owned nothing, they only served their master. His subjects ap- preached the great Inca with burdens on their shoulders a token of submis- sion. About the time that Pizarro ar rived on the coast of Peru, there had been a war between Huascar Sapac. a son of the former Inca, and Atahualina, an ilegitimate son. Iluasear was the son of the former Incas own wife, who was also his sister while AtahUallpa was the son of another wife. But, according to the Incas, a mans sister could be his only legitimate wife.
 A t,l,s tI.., 1. l..aIf brother and held him prisoner in Cuzco, while he spent his time in luxury at the famous baths and springs near Cassa- marca. So Pizarro arrived on the scene at an opportune time, when there was dissatisfaction among the subjects of the conquered Inca. When Pizarro and his followers finally crossed the snow-cov- cred mountains that surrounded Cassa- marca. they saw the great Inca living in gorgeous splendor about three miles from the town. His followers and the mem bers of his harem were gathered around him.
 Atahuallpa had received word of the coming of the strange white men, and he ordered that>the town of Cassamarca, with it's 10,0o inhabitants be deserted that the strangers might find a place to rest after their arduous trip.
 The strangers marveled at this quiet and deserted city, but quickly took pos session of the large temples, and pre- pared against any attack from the enc my whom they could see in the distance. Fizarro sent his brother and a number of other soldiers to the camp of Atahuall- pa, to announce their arrival, and to ask his pleasure. The Inca received them hospitably enough but informed them, as that was a feast day, he would visit their chief the next day.
 Pizarro suspected treachery, and that night they made their plans. The fol- lowing day they awaited anxiously while the naughty Inca made his leisurely preparations to visit them At last the cavalcade started. Servants walked in front and swept the road that their mas ter was to travel over.- He himself was borne in a great golden chair on the shoulders of his followers. They arrived at the temple in which the Spaniards were awaiting them at sundown. The Indians crowded into the courtyard. There were thousands of them.
 The great Inca sat in his golden chair With his rich robes covered with jewels and asked to see the leader of the stran- gers who had come into his domains. The hands of the soldiers itched to tear these jewels from him, but they bided their time. Atahuallpa was told that the strangers came from n land whose sover eIgn was greater even than he. Their re- ligion, they said. was the only one. He must acknowledge his allegiance to this sovereign and adopt their religion.
 Atahualipa smiled He was satisfied with his religion: why should he adopt anothers And. besides. what proof had they that theirs was the only one? A Bible was brought to him. The Inca