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Con1mentaries.
Mountains and difficult marHh and boggy Grounds; he arrived at length at the
River
Ama~umayu,
where receiving advice,
t~at
Juan. Alvarez,
was n9t yet l?affed,
he entrenched himfelf
on
the banks of the River, w1th defign to hmder lus
~af
fage and to treat
him
as
an Enemy; and though he had but
a
[mall number wl-iich
adh~red
to
him
yet being
all
choice Men, and faithfull to him, every one carrying
two Carbines
~ell
fixed and charged, he
promife~
to himfelf
fucc~fs
and advan-
tag~an Alvttre~
foon following after, defcended by the fiream untill he cah1e
to
the place, where
Gome~
Tordoya
e~peeted
his coming ; they.
being
both emulou
each of other and exafperated with equal gall and anger, without any other
tre~ty or
prologu~,
came
to
blows.
[uan
Al1!are~
Maldonado
confid.ing
in
his
un:–
bers, was
the
firfi
Aggre!for ;
Gome~
trnfimg
~n
the _courage of.his Men, and
tl
err
double
Atms
woold not give ground, but rece1vea his charge with great confiancy,
fo
hat they fought that whole day, as alfo the fecond and third, with that fpight
and rage
anrl
with fu<:h
little confideration, that they were almofi
all
killed·
and
fttch
as
did
efcapeWirh
their lives, were yet
fo
wounded, that they were difabled,
~nd
unfit for
ferviee. The
lndian1,
who were Natives of that Province of
Chnn–
chn
having obferved this advantage, fell in upon thofe that remained alive, and
Utt~rly
defiroyed them ; amongfi: which
Gome~
de
Tordoya
was alfo flain.
I
'ktre\
all
th@fe
three
Gentlemen, and
left
them in
Co~o,
when
I
departed thence. The
Indians
took thtee
Spaniards
alive, that is, this
Maldonado, D iego Martin
a
Ptrrt~~al
Friar,
and
ct
certain Gun-fmith called
Simon Lopet; Maldonado
being
known
bj
the
Indians
to have been the CommanHer in chiefof one of thofe parries, was
treated
by
them with all courtefte and refpett ; and confidering that he was wounded,
and
a
Man
in
years, they gave him liberty to return unto his
Indians
ih Co:uo;
gi-
, vlng
him
convoy to
as
far
as
the Province of
Callavay1t,
where the finefi:
Gold
is
excraeted
in
pieces of
four
or five Caraets in weight· but the Friar and tHe. Gan–
fmith they Kept.above
two
ye(Jrs afterwards; during which time, they employed
the Gun-finith folely
in
making them Hatchets and Pick·
axes
of Copper; and
the Friar they held in great veneration, becaufe he was a Priefi,
and
a Servant9f
the God of the Chrill:ians: And when at length they gave them liberty
to
return
to
Peru,
they enrreated the Friar to fray amongfi them, and teach them the
Doc–
trit1e ofChrillianity, bur he refufed to dwell' ith them, This and
many~ fuch
occafions have been lofi, whereby the Gofpel might have been propagated
by
Preaching, without
the
force and compulfion of Arms.
'
Two years afterwards the
Chunchr-u
gave licence
to
thefe two
Spaniards
to
return
Unto
Peru,
guitjing and condutting them untill they came to the Valley of
Calla–
vay11>
fo that they told their
O\
n
Swry
of
this unhappy expedition. They alfo
g~ve
an account of all the Aetions and Exploits whiCh the
Inc~
had performed at
die
lbwer parts of thi5 River;
and
how they dwelt and inhabited amongO: the
Mufiu;
and
th~t
afier
that time
they
acknowledged the
Inca
for their Lord and
Sovereign, and
tha~
every year tbey carried
him
prefents of
fuch
Fruits
as
their
foil
produced ; the which prefents w;re continued uncill the Death of the
Inca Tu–
pac Amaru,
which
was
fame
few
years after this unfortunate aetion and fight be–
tween
[uan
Alvare~
Maldonado,
and
Gomez.. de Tordoya.
The which Story we have
fore-fialled and related out of
its
due place, thereby-to atteft, and prove the Con–
queft which the
Inca
Yupanqui
made along the great River
Amat-umayu;
and that
the
Incas
who
de~gne~
to make a Conquefi of
~he
Mufm,.
did afterwards plant
themfelves, and mhab1t among(t them. All which the
Fnar
D iego
Martin
and
the Gun-fmirh
Simon
did
particularly
relate and confirm : And the
Friar'
as
ta
himfelf did
fay,
that nothing did trouble him
fo
much in bis life, as that he did
not continue his abode amongO: the
Indian
Chunchm,
as
they defired of him · but
that
not having the convenienc1es there of
faying
Mafs, was
a
great
induce~ent
to
recal~
him.thence, for otherwife he would never have removed from thence.
~e farth~r
faid, that he often purpofed to return thither
again,
being troubled
in
hIS
confc1ence for not having fatisfied the importunity of thofe poor
Indian,,
who
~ade
that reafonable requeft to
him, which
he by his vow and profeffion was ob–
liged to grant : And
~arther
that
Friar
alledged, that thofe
JnctU
who
were
planted
among the
Mu/II#,
might
be
of great ufe to the
Spaniards
in the Conqueft
which
they
defign~d
to make of that Councrey. And
fo
let us remrn again to the
. - Aets
.and Monuments of the good
Inca t'upanqui;
the chief and greateft of which,
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