Identifier: centuryofdiscove00voge (find matches)
Title: A century of discovery; biographical sketches of the Portuguese and Spanish navigators from Prince Henry to Pizarro;
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Vogel, Theodore, 1838-
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Explorers
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ially themarch to Chili, they had been rewarded only by poverty andneglect. They found a head in the natural son of their lateleader, young Diego de Almagro, whom his father had namedhis heir, but whom Pizarro had robbed of his inheritance.Under the guidance of a discontented officer named Juan deRada, Diego made preparations for an outbreak. On Sun-day, June 26th, 1541, the conspirators, only twenty in number,left Almagros house and hastened to the palace of the Gover-nor, shouting, Long live the King ! Death to the tyrant!The inhabitants of Lima, quiet in their houses during themidday heat, paid no attention to the uproar, and so themurderers passed unhindered through the open doors of thepalace, cutting down all who came in their way. Pizarro hadbeen warned some days before, but considered the report amere invention. He had just been dining in company with hishalf-brother, Martin de Alcantara, the chief judge, and the newBishop of Quito, and other friends, when the noise warned him
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DEATH OF PIZARRO. Francisco Pizarro. o^^ of the greatness of the danger. He preserved his presence ofmind perfectly, and commanding an officer to shut the doorwhich led into the court, he hastened to put on his armour.But the officer in confusion ran straight into the arms of theconspirators and was cut down. So before the Governor andhis friends were armed the conspirators were upon them.Nevertheless they fought desperately, and several of theassailants were stretched mortally wounded on the ground.Alcantara and the other friends of the Governor fell, and hehimself was attacked, but brought several to the ground byquick powerful blows, till at last he received a severe woundin the neck and fell. Jesus, cried the wounded man, andmaking with his finger a cross on the bloody ground, hestooped to kiss it, when another blow ended his life. So closed this strange career, so rich in adventure, in bril-liant feats and in horrible crimes, begun in poverty and dirtand reaching the highest hono

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