305 / 1060
BooK.Vll.
Royal Commentaries.
CH AP.
xx.v. -
Of
oth~r
unhappy Succeffes
in
the Kingdom
~f
Chili.
<
T
.Hus far had I writ
when freih
Advices came of
?ther
fatal
arid unfortu
nate
Succeifes
in
Chili,
which happened
there
m
the Year
1
>99·
?nd
inPeYu·in
the Year
1600.
Amongft other ·Calamides the Eartpquake about
Are–
qnepa
is
recounted as one, which at length ended
in
fuch a
te!rible
irruption of
fir~
from a certain
Hill>
which
for the
f
pace of twenty
days
contmually threw up
fudi
quantities
of Allies
a.adSand , as
in
the parts round about
covered
the Earth
two yards thick, .. and
in places fatthe_r offat leafi: a yard, and
wher~
leafr, a quarter
of a·yard
deep,.:
for the
fiface
of
thirty
or fourty Leagues rou)ld m the
Countrey
of
Areqnepa;
whereb>y
al
their
Vines
and
~orn
Lands .were fpoiled, ·their
Trees
and Fruits fcor.ched and
blafied,
and all
their
Cattel
perdhed
for
want of paAure.
Their
Cows and
Oxen
lay
dead
in
Droves
of
five
htlhdred
in a place.,
and
theiJ;
Flocks
of
Sheep,
and
~oats,
and
Hogs
lay buried in rhefe Afhes.
Many
Houfes
were overwhelmed with the
weight
df
the
Earth
aµd l
Sand, which
this im1ptfon
threw up,
fuch as remained
were preferved
by
the diligence
of
thofe Mafiers
who
always
cleared and threw them off
as
they came; all which
was
accompanied
with fach dreadfull Flailies of
Lightning,
andi claps
of
Thunder;
as
were heard and
feen
at
thirty
Leagues
dillan'te from the Confines of
Areip1epa;
and
fo
thick were
the Clouds of Sand and Allies, whfo:h were thrown·
up, that
fot
many. days
they
fo
obfcured the
Sun,
chat. they were forced
to
light Candles for performance-
of their necefiaey occafions. Thefe and the like particulars were advifed f1'om
that
City,
and
the
adjacent
parts, the which we nave fuccrhetly touched, refer–
ring our felves for a more full Relation thereof
to
the Hillorians
of
rhofe times;
whofe bufinefs
it
is
to
defcribe all the particulars hereof more
at
large.
Howfoev€r
we fhall relate
the
misfortunes of
Chili,
as
they
were
advifed in
wri–
ting from thence , becagfe they come pertinent
to
the foregoing
fi:0ty
of the
In–
dians
of
Arauca,
and
are
confequences of the Infurrection begun
in
the·Year
1
>
5'
3.
·
and
which
continued
untill
the
beginning
of
1603.
n ·
is
it
known
when
there
will be an end
thereof,
in regatd that after forty nine years fince
du
Rebellion be–
gan, (during which time diey have endured all the
miferies
ofF~e
and
Swo
d,)
yet
frill
thofe troubles feem rather
to
increafe than abate, as plai.Qly appears by
the
mtelligences which we have
extralted
from a Letter written :from an
Inhabitant
of the. City of
Sanaiago
in
chm,
which came
at
the
fame time with the relation
of the Calamities of
Arequepa.
Thefe Advices
were delivered
to
me by a Gen–
tlem~
who_ was
my Friend,
and had lived
in
Peru,
and ferved
in
quality of a
Captain agam{l: the Rebels in the Kingdom of
~itu,
when
they
mutinea
on oc–
cafioa
of the great !axes which were laid
upon
them,
bisName
was
Martin
Cuafo,
a
perf
on
~ho
bath done great
Service to
the
Crown
of
Spain.
The
title
of
thefe
misfortunes of
Chili
runs
thus :
'.Ad'Vices
[rom
Ch.ili:
and
prefently
adds,,
So foon as an
end
was
put
to
th~
writing of
the
foregomg
lntelltgence
of
Arequepa,
c~
other more dif
mal
ftones from
Chili,
f
11/t
<f
farrow, and greatly to be lamented.
The
particulars
were related
in
th~
manner
following.
i
A ReJa;;
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