An agreeable surprise now awaited Pizarro in the arrival of _Manco_, the brother of Huascar, and who was the rightful heir to the Peruvian crown. No event could have happened better suited to the Spanish interests. The prince’s petition for protection was at once accorded, and he accompanied the invaders to _Cuzco_, which city was entered on the 15th of November. It had already been to a considerable extent denuded of its treasures, which had gone to form part of the ransom of Atahualpa, but it still formed a prize well worth the grasping, containing as it did, together with its suburbs, some five-and-twenty thousand houses. _Cuzco_ was a populous, well-built and well-regulated city, with houses of stone, wholly or in part, and with long, regular streets, crossing one another at right angles, and meeting in the great square, which through them communicated with the high-roads of the empire. Through the capital ran a river of pure water, the banks of which for twenty leagues were faced with stone, and which was crossed at intervals by bridges. Here, as usual, almost the first care of the Spaniards, after their arrival, was to collect the treasure, which was computed to amount to about six hundred _pesos_ of gold and two hundred and fifteen marks of silver. Pizarro’s next object was to set up a civil government, and with this view the young _Inca_ was crowned, with the formalities which would have been observed had he really been destined to power, whilst at the same time Spanish _alcaldes_ and _regidores_ were appointed, two of the latter being Pizarro’s brothers. But all was not tranquil in _Peru_, and Almagro had soon to take the field to reduce one of the two generals of the late _Inca_, who, when defeated by him on this occasion, retreated to _Quito_, where he defied the Spaniards until he was assassinated by his troops. Soon afterwards Pizarro had the good fortune to purchase from the governor of _Guatemala_, for the consideration of a hundred thousand gold pieces, a fleet of twelve vessels, great and small, with forces, stores and ammunition. _Peru_ was now, in all seeming, conquered, and the governor’s next concern was to select a suitable situation for the future capital of this vast colony. After much consideration, he decided on a spot about six miles from the mouth of the river _Rimac_, almost in the latitude of _Cuzco_, and on which, with wonderful rapidity, arose the beautiful city of _Lima_. Pizarro was now somewhat advanced in years, and the development of the new city in its delightful situation formed the immediate interest of the remainder of his life, he throwing into this object the same vigour by which he had been ever distinguished in exploration or in war.