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Huayna Capac

Inca ruler, father of Atahualpa and Huascar; Pedro Pizarro writes that he died of smallpox.

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Inca ruler, father of Atahualpa and Huascar; Pedro Pizarro writes that he died of smallpox.

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Inca civil war According to Pedro Pizarro Primary record 1
Pedro Pizarro wrote in 1571 from what he was told, and tells of an illness with smallpox and a death; the story gives it as his report.

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Relation of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru by Pedro Pizarro, volume 1 (English translation by Philip Ainsworth Means, Cortes Society, 1921), The Cortes Society, New York (scan on the Internet Archive), 1921. Primary record
there broke out among them a plague of smallpox, never seen among them before, which killed many Indians
on being placed in the sun, this Guainacapa died
An Account of the Antiquities of Peru, by Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti-yamqui Salcamayhua, in Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas (English translation by Clements R. Markham, Hakluyt Society, 1873), Hakluyt Society, London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1873. Primary record
The body of Huayna Ccapac was conveyed to Cuzco with much ceremony

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