The Spaniards were assembled in the public square of Caxamarca. Pizarro prayed that God would help him to divide the treasure justly, and the apportionment began. First, a fifth of the whole great golden heap was weighed out for the king of Spain, as Pizarro had promised in the _capitulacion_. Then the conquerors took their shares in the order of their rank. Pizarro received 57,222 _pesos de oro_, and 2,350 marks of silver, besides the golden chair of Atahualpa, which weighed $25,000. Hernando his brother got 31,080 _pesos de oro_, and 2,350 marks of silver. De Soto had 17,749 _pesos de oro_, and 724 marks of silver. There were sixty cavalrymen, and most of them received 8,880 _pesos de oro_, and 362 marks of silver. Of the one hundred and five infantry, part got half as much as the cavalry each, and part one fourth less. Nearly $100,000 worth of gold was set aside to endow the first church in Peru,--that of St. Francis. Shares were also given Almagro and his followers, and the men who had stayed behind at San Miguel. That Pizarro succeeded in making an equitable division is best evidenced by the absence of any complaints,--and his associates were not in the habit of keeping quiet under even a fancied injustice. Even his defamers have never been able to impute dishonesty to the gallant conqueror of Peru. To put in more graphic shape the results of this dazzling windfall, we may tabulate the list, giving each share in its value in dollars to-day:-- To the Spanish Crown $1,553,623 " Francisco Pizarro 462,810 " Hernando Pizarro 207,100 " De Soto 104,628 " each cavalryman 52,364 " each infantryman 26,182 All this was besides the fortunes given Almagro and his men and the church. This is the nearest statement that can be made of the value of the treasure. The study of the enormously complicated and varying currency values of those days is in itself the work for a whole lifetime; but the above figures are _practically_ correct. Prescott's estimate that the _peso de oro_ was worth eleven dollars at that time is entirely unfounded; it was close to five dollars. The mark of silver is much more difficult to determine, and Prescott does not attempt it at all. The mark was not a coin, but a weight; and its commercial value was about twenty-two dollars at that time. VII. ATAHUALPA'S TREACHERY AND DEATH.