My guess would be that "A few dictated letters to
home," or "to loved ones."
What comes after that sounds like an explanatory
footnote explaining the novel. There's probably either
an asterisk or a footnote number after the period that
follows Amadis of Gaul, and several line spaces and
then the explanatory footnote preceded by an asterisk
or footnote number.
Scott, I suggest bookmark pages you have questions on
and wait for me to get the book, which will,
hopefully, be by next Wed. Then we can work on it
offlist.
Cindy
--- Scott Berry <sberry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello there,
This page looks like there is some text missing. I
went to the next page
and it does not correspond with this page at all.
Here is the page:
Atahualpa's arguments did him little good, however,
for Pizarro, not
wanting to take any chances, now ordered that a
chain be fastened around
Atahualpa's neck to prevent the emperor from
escaping. Pizarro next
called for a meeting of his top commanders to
discuss Atahualpa's fate.
While the rank-and-file Spaniards waited nervously
in the city, scanning
the hills for signs of an approaching army, a
handful of their leaders
now debated what to do with the captive Inca king.
The makeshift jury
included the corpulent royal treasurer, Alonso
Riquelme; the Dominican
friar, Vincente de Valverde�whose mistreated
breviary had set off the
massacre eight months before; Almagro; Francisco
Pizarro; and a few
others. Almagro, Riquelme, and several other
captains wanted to execute
the Inca emperor immediately, believing that once
Atahualpa was dead, it
would be easier to pacify the country. Pizarro and
another group of
captains, on the other hand, were in favor of
keeping Atahualpa alive.
They had been able to rule the country through
Atahualpa for eight
months, after all�so why couldn't they continue?
And
who knew how the
natives might react if their lord suddenly turned up
dead? The entire
country might rise up against them.
Like a hung jury, the Spaniards were unable to agree
on whether
Atahualpa had been sending out secret messages or
had been telling the
truth. They thus couldn't agree on whether they
should execute the Inca
lord or spare his life. In order to address their
most immediate threat,
Pizarro decided to send Hernando de Soto with four
horsemen to ride
north and investigate. If they found no native army,
then it was
possible that Atahualpa had been telling the truth.
If, on the other
hand, they found an army, then one thing was
certain: before the
Spaniards lost their lives, Atahualpa would surely
lose his own.
After Soto and his men had galloped off, the rest of
the Spaniards were
forced to wait nervously. Some fingered their ingots
of gold and dreamed
of what they would do with them if they survived
this adventure and made
it back to Spain. Others no doubt read well-thumbed,
contraband novels
of chivalrous adventures, such as Amadis of Gaul. A
few scribbled or
dictated
At the time of the conquest, chivalric novels were
all the vogue, one of
the most popular being Amadis de Gaula, the story of
a knight errant who
dons armor and travels to the far ends of the earth.
There he battles
giants, monsters, and other fantastic creatures, all
the while remaining
faithful to his beautiful lady. Novels such as
Amadis were considered so
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