_How the Alcalde Diego Núñez de Mercado arrived in Spain
with the news of the death of the Adelantado, and how his
Majesty considered that he had been ill served thereby, and
sent out the Licentiate Vaca de Castro as Judge_ 79
CHAPTER XXV
_Of the things that happened in Lima, and how Pero Alvarez
Holguin left Cuzco on an expedition of discovery_ 82
CHAPTER XXVI
_Of the things that happened to the President Vaca de Castro
after he left the city of Panamá to go to Peru_ 85
CHAPTER XXVII
_How the President Vaca de Castro found himself in great
trouble and danger from not knowing where the port of
Buenaventura was, and how, at the end of several days
during which they had been seeking for the port, they met
a ship on board of which was Don Juan de Andagoya,
who explained to them where the port was_ 88
CHAPTER XXVIII
_How the arrival of Vaca de Castro in the river of San Juan
became known at Lima, and how sore the men of Chile felt
about it; and of what else passed in Lima at that time_ 90
CHAPTER XXIX
_How the Chile faction plotted to assassinate the Marquis,
and how Francisco de Herencia, who was one of them,
betrayed it, at confession, and of the great heedlessness
of the Marquis, also what else happened until the men of
Chile sallied forth to kill him_ 96
CHAPTER XXX
_How the men of Chile sallied forth from the lodgings of Don
Diego de Almagro, of their putting the Marquis Don
Francisco Pizarro to death, and of the valorous spirit
shown by the Marquis before his death_ 99
CHAPTER XXXI
_In which the former chapter is concluded down to the time
when the Marquis was slain by the men of Chile_ 103
CHAPTER XXXII
_Of what happened in Lima after the death of the Marquis
Don Francisco Pizarro_ 110
CHAPTER XXXIII
_Of the things that were done by the Chile party, and how
they acknowledged Don Diego as Governor; also of the imprisonment
of Antonio Picado, and how the Licentiate
Rodrigo Niño and Orihuela came from Spain_ 114
CHAPTER XXXIV
_How Don Diego de Almagro, having tyrannically occupied
the city of Lima, sent messengers to some of the cities of the
Realm, requiring them to acknowledge him as Governor_ 117
CHAPTER XXXV
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