The Last Days of the Incas by KIM MACQUARRIE
Author:KIM MACQUARRIE [MACQUARRIE, KIM]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: History, South America
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
When Rui Díaz arrived where Manco Inca was, he [Manco] received him very well … and he kept him [Díaz] with him for two days. And on the third day Manco asked him a question that, according to what Rui Díaz [later] said, was: “Tell me, Rui Díaz, if I were to give the King a very great treasure, would he withdraw all the Christians from this land?” Rui Díaz replied, “How much would you give?” Rui Díaz said that Manco then had a [large quantity] … of corn [kernels] brought out and had it piled on the ground. And from that pile he took one grain, and said: “The Christians have [only] found as much gold and silver as this kernel; by comparison what you have not found is as large as this pile from which I took this single kernel.” … Rui Díaz [then] said to Manco Inca, “Even if all these mountains were made of gold and silver and you were to give them to the King, he would [still] not withdraw the Spaniards from this land.” When Manco heard this, he said to him, “Then leave, Rui Díaz, and tell Almagro to go wherever he wants, for my people and I will die if we must in order to finish off the Christians.”
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