Cuzco about Sept

25, 1542. Son of Diego de Almagro and of an Indian mother. He accompanied his father to Chile (1535-36) and after his death lived in poverty at Lima. The conspirators who killed Francisco Pizarro (June 26, 1541) had met at his house, but it does not appear that he was actively engaged with them. They, however, proclaimed him governor of Peru, and part of the country submitted to him; but the royalists under Vaca de Castro defeated him at Chupas, Sept. 16, 1542. He was arrested next day and soon after be headed. lati on. of the Zegris and Abencerrages. Conquest of Granada." The name was taken from Madeleine de Scudéry's novel "Almahide." Almack's (al'maks). 1. A gaming-club estab- Almahyde (al'ma-hid). The Queen of Granada lished by William Almack in Pall Mall, London, in Dryden's "Almanzor and Almahyde, or The before 1763, afterward the Whig club known as "Brook's." "Among the twenty-seven original members of Almack's Club were the Duke of Portland and Charles James Fox, and it was subsequently joined by Gibbon, William Pitt, and very many noblemen." S. L. Lee, in Dict. Nat. Biog. Almain (al-mān'). [Early mod. E. also Al- mayn , Almaigne , etc., OF. Aleman , F. Allemand , German, L. Alamanni , Alemanni : see Alaman- 2. Famous a embly-rooms built by Almackin ni.] An old name for Germany. 1764, and opened Feb. 20, 1765, in King street, Almali. See Elmalu . St. James. "At the beginning of this century admis. Al-Mamun (äl-mä-mön'). Born 786: died 833. sion to Almack's was described as 'the seventh heaven of the fashionable world,' and its high reputation did not decline before 1840." ( S. L. Lee , in Dict. Nat. Biog.) These rooms are commonly called "Will is's," after the next proprietor. Alma Dagh. See Amanus . Alma Island (al'mä i'land). An island in the Saguenay River, Canada, at the outlet of Lake