This partiality highly offended Almagro, who thought his claims equal to Pizarro's, and this led to open hostilities; when Almagro being taken prisoner, he was beheaded in prison by order of Pizarro.
Soon after this, Pizarro himself was assassinated in his palace by a party of Almagro's friends, headed by the son of Almagro, in revenge for the death of his father.
Some time before this, the cruel and bigoted priest, Val de Viridi, had been beaten to death with the butt end of muskets, in the island of Puma, at the instigation of Almagro.
Thus retributive justice, in the end, overtook these unjust and cruel men.
CHAPTER XII.
PARLEY DESCRIBES THE NATURAL BEAUTIES OF AMERICA.
Let us now leave for a while the cruel Spaniards, and talk about the beauties of nature, in these new discovered countries.