at the age of forty-two, for
rebelling against the authority of the Spanish Emperor. Francisco
Pizarro was murdered in his own house in the City of the Kings, in the
month of June 1541, by the desperate adherents of the young Almagro, or
the 'Men of Chili' as they were called, and was buried hastily and
secretly by a few faithful servants in an obscure corner of the
cathedral. Such was the miserable end of the conqueror of Peru. 'There
was none even,' says an old chronicler, 'to cry "God forgive him!"'

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors corrected.

Illustrations were moved outside of paragraphs. Due to this movement,
some of the original page numbers in the list of illustrations may not
match the actual location.

Many and varied were the hyphenations in this text due to the different
stories. Examples are: cocoa-nuts and cocoanuts, and head-quarters and
headquarters. These variations were retained.

Page 12, "36 " was changed to "362"

Page 12, the final illustrations page number was obscurred. The number
was added.

Page 21, "litttle" changed to "little" (or very little later)

Page 30, "bele" changed to "belle" (France la belle)

Page 54, "gainst" changed to "against" (led a sally against)

Page 87, Footnote, "litt e" changed to "little" (a little fancy)

Page 270, "Kinlock-moidart" changed to "Kinloch Moidart" to match rest
of usage in text. (Macdonald of Kinloch Moidart)

Page 272, "thec aves" changed to "the caves" (in the caves of)

Page 298, the second digit in "29th" was presumed as the number was only
faintly visible on the original. (the 29th of October)

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