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Royal Com1nentaries.
CH A ·
V.
XI.
rro,
and his
thirteen
C
0111panions,
arrived
in
P
ru.
A
T the
end of two year ,
after
they
had
quitted
the
I{land
of
Gorgona,
for
fo
long they had been in
making their
Difcoveries on the
COaft,
not
knowing well whither they went , during which time we
will
leave the Rea–
der co
confider what Difueff'es and Hardfhips they
fufiained, all
which other
Hillorians omit, not counting the
fieps ,
and degrees by which thefe Adven–
turers proceeded.
At
length
I
fay, they arrived at
Tumpi~,
where it pleafed
God
to work a Miracle, that thofe people might receive, and embrace the
Ca-.
tholick Faith, which
was
this; the Ship being here arrived, the
Spaniards
obfer–
ved that the Counrrey was well peopled, and adorned with many good Houfes,
·and more fiately Buildings, than any they had feen
in
other parts, became very
defirous to make a farther difcovery; but how to contrive it was very difficult,
for they were fearfull to fend one man
f
mgly, left he fhould be killed by the
lfldi–
Ans,
nor durfr they adventure in a Body, for fear of
th~
like
fate; at lengt,
to
end the Difpuce,
Peter
de
Candia
being full of Courage and Chrifiian confidence,
offered himfelf on this Adventure, telling his Companions, that in cafe he were
killed, their lofs would not be much, confidering that he was but a
f
mgle perfon,
and that
if
he came well off, the greater would be the Wonder and the Vidory ;
which
having
faid , he immediately covered his Body with a Coat of Mail,
which
reachea
to
his
Knees, and put on a Helmet of the befi and bravefi fort, he
girt
his Sword
by
hi5 fide, took his Target of Steel in his left hand, and in the
r!ght he bore a wooden Crofs of about a yard and a half
long~
which being
the
· 6gnal of his Redemption, he confided more therein than
in
rus Arms of Steel or
Jron. This
Peter
of
Candia
was a very tall Man, and though I did never fee him,
yet his Son, with whom I went to School at
Beaba,
£hewed me the proportion
of his Father in himfelf; for being a Boy, but of eleven or twelve years of age,
was as big as another of twice that age.
In
this drefs
Peter de Candia
left his Com–
panions, defiring their Prayers and Recommendations of him unto God, and then
with a grave and ferious Countenance and Pace he walked towards the Inhabi–
tants, with as much MajeCl:y as if he had been Lord Paramount of all that Pro–
vince. The
Indians,
who were in great confufion at the Arrival of the Ship, were
much more affiighted when they faw a Man
Co
call, and of fo .vafi a proportion,
. covered all with Iron, with a Beard on
his
Face, which had never been known
or feen before amongfl: them. Thofe who met him in the Fields ran away, and
gave an Allarm to their People, and all taking Arms, ran into their Cail:le or For–
rrefs, which"' as fpeedily filled with crowds; but
Peter
frill
continued his grave
Cou.nte~ance,
and
P~ce
towards
t~em,
which
wh~n
they
w, they were in great
adm1rat1on, none darmg to hurt hun, for they believed that he was fome divine
or heavenly Apparition; but to prove what manner of thing he was, the
CuracM
1
or Lords, agreed co try him with the Lion and Tyger which
Huaymt Capac
had re–
commended to their Cufiody, (as we have
alr~ady
related in the Hillary of his
Life,) which when they had let loofe, they expetted chat they lhould
kill
and
tear him
h~
pieces; but this fiory is briefly related by
Peter
de
Cier.a,
in
the Ac–
C<?Unt
he gtves of
th~
Conquefls and Attions of
Hua
na Capac
in this great
Pro–
vmce of
Tumph,,
the which I thought
fit
to tranfa-ibe word for word
that
[o
I
might have the TefHmony of a
Spanijh
Authour, in confirmation of the truth
of what I have wrote, and with the fame occafion defcribe the beauty of that
Pcleafant
Valley
of
Tumbi",
for
fo
that Auchour write . "
In
regard, faith he,
that the
Inhabitants
of the Hle of
Puna
were alwa s at variance with the Na–
ives
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