“Atahuallpa, by all accounts, is a base-born ursurper and ruthless” to usurper.

[Book II/Chapter IV]

“I feel as though I were hanging ‘twixt Heaven and earth” to ’twixt.

[Book II/Chapter V]

Cajarmarca was, for the time being, a city of the dead” to Cajamarca.

[Book IV/Chapter VI]

“We rode on, hoping to gain some knowlege of the position” to knowledge.

“exchange for those of his mother and and his betrothed” delete one and.

[Book IV/Chapter XII]

“the Spanish long-bows and arbalasts were almost as deadly” to arbalests.