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He was escorted by a goodly number of priests and friars, who held up the crucifix before his eyes, while he carried in his own hand an image of the Virgin. She had ever been the peculiar object of Pizarro's devotion; so much so, that those who knew him best in the hour of his prosperity were careful, when they had a petition, to prefer it in the name of the blessed Mary.
The officer detached on this service was named Montenegro; and taking with him nearly half the company, after receiving Pizarro's directions, he instantly weighed anchor, and steered for the Isle of Pearls.
Of course she may have been an abnormal combination of the Wifely Woman with the heroic woman; but one cannot help thinking that probably she was not that however strong her affection for Florestan, she would no sooner get him home than she would ask him how he came to be such a fool as to get into Pizarro's clutches.
Broken in spirit and in fortune, many returned in disgust to their native shores, while others remained where they were, to die in despair. They thought to dig for gold; but they dug only their graves. Yet it fared not thus with all Pizarro's company.
Having reached this point, about the ninth degree of southern latitude, Pizarro's followers besought him not to prosecute the voyage farther. Enough and more than enough had been done, they said, to prove the existence and actual position of the great Indian empire of which they had so long been in search. Yet, with their slender force, they had no power to profit by the discovery.
Yet, speedily rallying, they returned the discharge of the assailants with their cross-bows, for Pizarro's troops do not seem to have been provided with muskets on this expedition, and then gallantly charging the enemy, sword in hand, succeeded in driving them back into the fastnesses of the mountains.
The Famous Contract-Second Expedition Ruiz Explores The Coast Pizarro's Sufferings In The Forests Arrival Of New Recruits- Fresh Discoveries And Disasters Pizarro On The Isle Of Gallo On his arrival at Panama, Almagro found that events had taken a turn less favorable to his views than he had anticipated.
Unfortunately, the evil counsels of Hernando exercised an influence over his brother which more than compensated the advantages derived from his singular capacity for business. Notwithstanding the general interest which Pizarro's adventures excited in his country, that chief did not find it easy to comply with the provisions of the Capitulation in respect to the amount of his levies.
Destruction in every form, most shocking to morals or humanity, has depopulated the countries of the Loire; and republican Pizarro's and Almagro's seem to have rivalled each other in the invention and perpetration of crimes.
Fourteen of Pizarro's men were cut off at once in a canoe which had stranded on the bank of a stream.18
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