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I.
Royal
Commentaries.
in
which fad and difmal place and condition they
f
uffered Miferies beyond ex·
preffion. Of all thefe thirteen brave Heroes
Gm1ara
makes mention but of two
'
onely; I know not his reafon for
it,
or why he omits to name the other eleven;
but now I think on't, I have obferved that
it
is the common omiffion and defeet
. of
Spanifh
Writers, not to reckon particularly the Heroes of their Countrey by
name, for they ought
to
declare their Names and Surnames, their Families, Coun–
tries and Parentage, that the memory of fuch Perfons, famous
in
their Generation
for the Conqueft of a new World, may be conferved unto all Ages, and their
Families boafi
in
the honour of being allied co fuch Ancefiours. The tvrn which
Gom11ra
mentions :ire
Peter
tk
Candia,
who was not a
Spaniard
neither; but a
Greek..,
and
B1trtholomew
RUJ~
de Moguer,
a Native of
Mog11er'
and Pilot
in
this Naviga–
tion and Voyage. But
Caratc
was more accurate in
his
Relation, for
befides the
two former
he
names
feven others,
vill:.. Mcho/tU de R.j/Jera; '/ohn de
'"
Torre,
Alonfo
llrifenno,.
all
Nativ~
of
Penavente, Chr_iftophcr
de
Peralta
1
a Native of
?Jaef17
Alonfa
de Tr11xiUo
'
Francu
de
CHeUAr,
a Nanve of
Cue/la;
anct
Alonfa
de
Molina,
oorn at
Vkeda.
Befides which recited by this Writer, mere was another
RJ/;era,
compa–
oi~n
co
the
former,
whofe
Name
I
have
forgotten, perhaps
it
might be
lC",.onimo
or
Alonfo,
but to dHlinguHh
them
one from the ether,
they
uf
ually
called them
IOhtra
rhe
Smior,
and
Ribera
the
funfor;
not that one was much elder than the
other
in
years, but by reafon of their fenioricy
in
the Society with
Pifnrro,
for one
8f
them
was
in the number of
the
firft Adventurers which came from
Panama,
and
the-other was
of
the fecond or third Expedition, which came thence with
Alma–
gro;
all which particulars I learned in
my
own
Q)nnney
from thofe who dif–
courfed of thofe times, and were
for
the moft part Eye-wicnefles of the
atter
of
fad:;
both which
RiberaJ
had
their
Shares and Divifions of
Indians
ma e to them
in
Ciudad
Real,
where they left Sons and Daughcers, educated with all Goodnefs
and Verene.
He
whom
Garate
calls
.Alonfo
Tr11xillo,
was
'fames,
for
I
wa
ell
ac–
quainted with
him, and know that he had Lands and Poffeffions given
hirri
in
Couo,
and that in the Year
1
5'
60.
when I departed from that City, he was fiill
living. Moreover
Fr1tn
cu Rodrigues
of
Villa F1terte
near
Couo,
was another ofrhe
thirteen, and one of the
fir.ftwhich
pa!Ied the Line, which, as we have faid,
A l–
magro
drew with the po
int of his Sword , and was living in the year abovefaid,
onely
two are wanting of the thirteen, whore Names we know not. And thus
lnllch
we have faid to
illuftrate the Hill:ory
of
Carate,
in
honour to thofe Fami–
lies, whofe Off-fpring may well boafr to have been defcended from fuch famous
Ancefiours. The like particulars I iliall mention
in
other paffages, where I find
that
Spanifh
Wricers have been defeetive, that
fo
the Reader may receive entire
fatisfaction in
this Hifi:ory.
CHA
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