REPORT ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE RANSOM OF ATAHUALLPA, CERTIFIED BY THE NOTARY PEDRO SANCHO

Summary

In the town of Caxamalca, of these kingdoms of New Castille, on the 17th day of the month of June, in the year of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1533, the very magnificent Lord and Commander Francisco Pizarro, Adelantado, Lieutenant, Captain-General, and Governor for his Majesty in the said kingdoms, in the presence of me, Pedro Sancho, Lieutenant of the General Secretary, on the part of the Lord Pedro Samano, declares: that, on the occasion of the imprisonment and defeat of the chief Atahuallpa and of his troops in this town, some gold was collected, and that afterwards the said chief promised to the Christian Spaniards that they should find a certain quantity of gold in his prison, which quantity should, he declared, be a room full, namely, 10,000 tejuelos, and much silver which he possessed and promised; and which his captains, in his name, had taken in the war and capture of Cuzco, and in the conquest of those lands, by many ways which are more fully declared in the act which was attested before a notary;