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main· Land, whom,
asPalentino
faith, he found v
ry
poor, and
neceffitous:
but he ·
could
not beftow
on them Lands,
with vafral1age
of
Jndtanr,becaufe
th
at iv
5
0 ,–
thatCountry had been all defiroyed; but he gave them Money,and
[c
me Offics of
benefit.
H made a Provifion
f ·
P dro de Orftta,
V\
howas a very
cble Ger.–
tleman, a great Souldier, and Captain in the new
Kirgdom, \
here he had
performed
many
great
exploit ,
an<l
Peopled
a
City
nam d
Pmnplona:
but
by
he
Severity,
and In juftice of a
Judge,
who
fc
ized
upon
all bis f.ftate,
Orfluz
V\as forced to
fly,
and (as
'john
de
C,zftallanos
writes) to take r
fuge
in
Nombre
de Dios,
where the
Vice-King'
Don Andres
H11rtado
de
Mendofa
m
t
him, and
gav him a
Commiffion
to feek, and fopprefs the Fugitive
Negers,
called
C1marrones,
ho
lived
in the
Mou_ntaii~
s.,
and
robb ... d '·
and pillaged
all
Merchant ,
and
Travell ers who pailed thofe ways, murdenng and wounding
i
a manner not
foffi
rable.,
fo
that th
Te
was nQ palling
irt
lefs than twen-
ty
in a Company.
The number of thefe
Negers
incre<}~
d
daily.,
for when
-
any of them received the lcafl: hard word
from
his Mafter, he
prefeutly
forfook his Service, having
fo
good a Sanctuary, and Receptacle to
fly
unto.
For this Enterprife, and
Defign,
and
to
fopprefs
thefe
Negers, Pedro
de
Orfaa
raifed Meo; they were called
Cimarrones,
which is a word proper to
the
Language of the Ifie of
Barlovemo.,
ar.d
to thefe
Robb
rs feveral of
the
Souldiers
of
Hernandez.. Giron
joyned., being
fucl:i
as were
banifbed and
fled.,
all whicb., or as many of them as were concerned in this matter
were pardoned
by
the
ic -King. The
Negers
finding
themfelves
hardly
b•;f
t
and diftrefied, offered to treat and accept Articles of Accommodation;
which
for quietnefs fake and for peace
were
granted to them; and accor;-
ingly
it
was conCluded, That al thofe, who had unto that time fled from
their Mafters, fhould b
Free~
men, and
c
ontinuein their
fbite
of Freedom;
but for thofe, who fi1ould for the future efra.pe
from
their Mafters, the
Ci–
mtrrrones
fhotrld
be
obliged
to
furr"'nder them up
again
to their Patrons,
or
pay
the price demanded for them. That a
Neger
Man, or
Woman.,
be...
ing
ill treated
by
their Mafl:er., he, or they paying the price, which he.,
or fhe, or
they
cofr, the Mafter, or Mafrers, fhall
be
obliged to
fet
them
2t
liberty.
That the
Negers
1hall People, and
Inhabit
that Countrey, which
they at
prefent
pofief,
and fhall
live
peaceably as
good
Common-wealths–
men,
r
Natives of
the
Country, and not difperfed within the Mountains,
as formerly; and that th
y
fhall have free
Trade
and Commerce with the
p1in1 aYd1:
All
which,
in
order to Peace and
Quietnefs,
was agreed, and
on
1rm
d on one fide, and the other; and the
Negers
gave Pledges and Ho–
'g
for fecurity
.of
the P eace.
Their
King, called
Ba/lano,
delivered his
{J '\
n
P...
rfon
for
a Hoftage, and his Subjects
never redeeming
him, he was
tt
anfported into
Spain,
where he died.
Now
in
regard a little before the
ice-King
began hi
Voyage, a fatal ac–
cide
t
happ"'ned to a
hJ p
in the Ocean,
I have thought
fit
to infert
it
in thts place,
"Snot
altogether impertinent to this Hiftory.
']erommo de Alderete,
was
fent
from
Chile
into
Spain,
on occafion of bofinefs,
in
behalf
of
the
G overnour
Peho de Valdr.via;
and
<luring
his
Refidence
at
the
Co
rt,
advice
coming of
the death
of
the Governour ,
he'
Petiti–
oned his Maj
fry
for th place, and obtain d it. And
beiog ready
to depart
for
Chtle,
he took hi
ifter-in- Law with him, an honeft Vertuous perfon, and
one of thofe, who are call ·d
De\rout
Women, and with her he embark
don
a
' aleon where
ere
800
P rfoo , and which was Admiral of fix oth r Ships,
a1
~..ii]
d from
Sp~un
two Months befor
the
Vice-King.
This Religious
Noman b ing
v
ry
devout,
de fired
le
ve from
the Mail r of the Ship,- to
k~
pa
\:a11dl
in
her Cabin
by
ight,for reading
~er
office,to which
t~e
Mafrer
t011<l~fc
:.d
<l,
confi<leri1 g
it
wa
for her Devouon, and that
Ole
might
pray
for the whole S
ip,
and al o was Daughter-in-Law
to
the Governour. Being at
•
.1ea
a
d
fa1ling
with
a
fair
wind .,
it happ
ned
that a
Phyfitian
b
longing to
ano~h
··
S1l1p,
cam -> aboard the Galeon to vifit a Friend of hi .,
ho was
the~
;
and
·~in
o.d Arquaintance r ejoyced
to
fee each oth r : 1 award · Evening
the Ph
i t .
n
<l
0
ftrou
to eturn aboard hi own Ship, was perfi aded
by
hi Fri nd
tor
a
h~t.
'6ht
w·m
hm11
for tha '"
he
v
arh
r
w~
rery
f;
ir., a r d lik
ly
to
nt' nue · a
{(
·
f
e Bon was t o .,. d
t
a t
night
at th
t
rn of the
hip,
rnten-
<lin
r
i.:x
morn1
\=>
o
.a:.:
uf-:
0f
i'" .,
a
Jr
turn.
But
It
happen d,that that night
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