Encyclopedia article on Pizarro's lieutenant offers a history of his colorful career as an explorer and ruler of Incan lands.

Download the Project Gutenberg Edition of William Hickling Prescott's history of the Conquest of Peru, first published in 1847.

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Encyclopedia entry describes the use of the term El Dorado to describe the mythical kingdom of enormous wealth that lay hidden in the Americas.

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