ABSTRACT
Herrera recorded in his chronicle that Pizarro watched from the tower as the cortege, moving at a stately processional pace had approached the town. Between a vanguard and a rearguard made up of a large number of soldiers who saw the Inca’s raised litter sumptuously decorated with feathers. Tents were set up, and it seemed that Atahualpa intended to spend the night near Cajamarca without actually entering the town. The man confessed that Atahualpa was preparing for war and had divided his army into three detachments. One was at the foot of the mountains, another at the summit, and the third at Cajamarca. The next day the Governor departed and slept on a treeless plain that night expecting to reach Cajamarca at noon the next day since they told him it was near. Meanwhile, Diego de Almagro had joined Francisco Pizarro in Cajamarca, five months after the capture of the Inca.
