Atahualpa did not hold the Bible to his ear, he threw it away from him five or six steps. Father Friar Vicente advanced, with a cross in one hand and the Bible in the other, to where Atahualpa was, and addressed him through an interpreter: “I’m a priest of God, and I teach Christians the things of God, and I come to teach you. I teach what God says to us in this Book.” Atahualpa asked for the Book, so that he might look at it and the priest gave it to him closed. Atahualpa did not know how to open it and the priest was extending an arm to do so but Atahualpa in great anger, gave him a blow on the arm, not wanting the priest to open it. Then Atahualpa opened it himself, and without any astonishment at the letters and paper, threw it away from
