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Xerez, True Report of the Conquest of Peru
Francisco de Xerez's account, by Pizarro's order, of the expedition and the taking of Atahualpa.
Francisco de Xerez’s account, by Pizarro’s order, of the expedition and the taking of Atahualpa.
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Atahualpa taken at Cajamarca
According to Francisco de Xerez
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Xerez adds that during the whole time no Indian raised his arms against a Spaniard (the sentence runs across a footnote in the scan).
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Atahualpa taken at Cajamarca
According to Francisco de Xerez
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Xerez's reason: a Spaniard reported arms hidden under the clothes of those in front.
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Division of the ransom
According to Francisco de Xerez
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The total as printed in the 1872 English: 326,539 pesos. It has lost its first digit. Five times the printed royal fifth (262,259 pesos) is 1,311,295; Prescott gives 1,326,539.
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Division of the ransom
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Prescott (1847) gives the full total, and a silver figure equal to the 51,610 marks in Xerez.
- Ransom of Atahualpa According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
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- Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
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Reports on the Discovery of Peru: I. Report of Francisco de Xeres, secretary to Francisco Pizarro (English translation by Clements R. Markham, Hakluyt Society, 1872), Hakluyt Society, London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1872.
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fearlessly seized him by the arm, crying out Santiago. Then the guns were fired off
So great was the terror of the Indians at seeing the Governor force his way through them, at hearing the fire of the artillery, and beholding the charging of the horses, a thing never before heard of, that they thought more of flying to save their lives than of fighting.
In the square and on the plain there were two thousand killed, besides wounded.
the men in front carried arms concealed under their clothes
The infantry made so good an assault upon those that remained that in a short time most of them were put to the sword.
but, the number being very great, no account was taken of them, for all who came in attendance on Atabaliba were great lords
it was found to make a total of 326,539 pesos of good gold
I will give gold enough to fill a room twenty-two feet long and seventeen wide, up to a white line which is half way up the wall.
He undertook to do this in two months.
REPORT OF FRANCISCO DE XERES, SECRETARY TO FRANCISCO PIZARRO
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William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru (1847; text via Project Gutenberg #1209), Project Gutenberg, 1847.
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The total amount of the gold was found to be one million, three hundred and twenty-six thousand, five hundred and thirty nine pesos de oro
The quantity of silver was estimated at fifty-one thousand six hundred and ten marks.
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