ymen for months, the blood-stained heads of eight or ten Spaniards
were one day rolled into the market place, leading them to believe that
the rising of the Indians had been simultaneous all over the country,
and that their friends were faring no better than themselves. Things
were not, however, quite so desperate as they imagined, for Francisco
Pizarro when attacked in the City of the Kings had sallied forth and
inflicted such a severe chastisement upon the Peruvians that they
afterwards kept their distance from him, contenting themselves with
cutting off his communication with the interior. Several detachments of
soldiers whom he sent to the relief of his brothers in Cuzco were,
however, enticed by the natives into the mountain passes and there
slain, as also were some solitary settlers on their own estates.

At last, in the month of August, the Inca drew off his forces, and
intrenching himself in Tambo, not far from Cuzco, with a considerable
body of men, and posting another force to keep watch upon Cuzco and
intercept supplies, he dismissed the remainder to the cultivation of
their lands. The Spaniards thereupon made frequent forays, and on one
occasion the starving soldiers joyfully secured two thousand Peruvian
sheep, which saved them from hunger for a time. Once Pizarro desperately
attacked Tambo itself, but was driven off with heavy loss, and hunted
back ignominiously into Cuzco; but this was the last triumph of the
Inca. Soon afterwards Almagro appeared upon the scene, and sent an
embassy to the Inca, with whom he had formerly been friendly. Manco
received him well, but his suspicions being aroused by a secret
conference between Almagro's men and the Spaniards in Cuzco, he fell
suddenly upon the former, and a great battle ensued in which the
Peruvians were decidedly beaten and the power of the Inca was broken. He
died some few years later, leaving the Spaniards still fighting among
themselves for the possession of the country. Almagro after some years
of strife and adventure was put to death by Hernando Pizarro when he was
nearly seventy years old. His son, a gallant and well-beloved youth, who
succeeded him, met the same fate in the same place--the great square of
Cuzco--a few years later. Hernando himself suffered a long imprisonment
in Spain for the murder of Almagro, with serene courage, and even lived
some time after his release, being a hundred years old when he died.
Gonzola Pizarro was beheaded in Peru,