ABSTRACT
Although the Judge Arbitrator Bobadilla had ordered the Governors to take these solemn oaths respecting the interviews at mala, not for this did they desire peace, nor did they hope that their disputes and dissensions would come to a peaceful end; but rather that he who was best able to would defeat the other, and remain the superior, with power to govern the whole kingdom. The intentions of the Governors were not to renew the old friendship with loss to their dignity, for Don Francisco Pizarro had no wish to have any equal in the kingdom he governed, and Almagro not only held the same view but wanted to have the government of the 136greater part of the realm for himself. If they raised some arguments in justification, and to some extent wished it to be understood that they expressed fear of the King in the assemblies of men they had drawn together without authority to prepare for war, it was merely to vindicate their cause to their followers and arouse their anger, so that believing it to be just they would be encouraged to defend it.
