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BooK
II.
Royal
Commentaries.
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The
hopes
and
fears
of
Almagro ;
he
is fmfal{en
/Jy
his
ln–
·terpreter
;
and
an
Agreement is nzade with
AI ·arado.
I
T
Hus honeft
Don Diego
de
Almagro
marchlng in O!teft of
D. Pedro de Alvaradoj
em:ountred
fome
SkirmHhes by the way with the Captains of
Atah11alpa;
but
fo
inconfiderable they were, that they were
fcarce
wortny co be mentioned:
And in regard he had certain intelligence
that
Alvarado
was
L~nded,
an9
w~s
marched up into the Councrey, he proceeded £lowly, that he might not
mili his
.
way, or wander into pares
cliftanc
from
~m,
of
~horn
he.went
in
fearch.
.
Sehaftian de Belalcaf"r
1 .
who
w~
fent w1ch
r~crwcs
to
re-mfor~e A/mag:~' hav~g
chafed
Rumminavi
and
his
Captams from
!/.uitu,
proceeded with
all
diligence
1Ii
Qgefi of
Almagro,
and having joined
his
Forces with
him,
they defeated forne
Squadrons of
JnJ.ians,
which were fcattered over thofe Provinces.
In
which
En–
cerprife they chafe rather to employ themfelves,
than
to attempt
Alvarado,
for
knowing that
he
was a Man of courage, and
his
people fiout and good Souldiers,
they would willingly have declfued all engagements with him, could they have
come off handfomely, without fhame or diilionour.
In
thefe doubtfull terms they
rnained, untill
.Alvuado
approached near their Qy_arters, and had taken feven of
their Horfe
which
Almagro
had fent
for
Forrage into the Counrrey? but
Alvarado
immediately relea ed them,
fo
foon
as
he underfiood unto whom they
belonge~
and had been infonned of
all
other matters and circurnfiances of thefe
affaits, for
the defign of
Alvarado
was not to trouble or dill:llrb the
firfi
Adventurers in theit
Conquefrs of
Peru,
but onely to afftil: and join
with
them in their Emerprize.
This generou ACtion of
Alvarado
eafed
Almagro
in a great meafure of his fears,
efreeming
it
for an eviden<::e of Peace and
rioodfhip
:
But in regard he had fent
no
Meffage by
the Horfe-men which he had freed, he remained doubtful! be–
tween
hope
and fear, not knowing what
his
intentions and meaning might be.
WhiHl:
Almagro
remained
in
tliis thoughtfull condition,
an
unliappy accident
increafed his fears, which was the flight
of
his Interpreter
Philip
the
Indian,
who
heating that
A lvarado
was nearly approached, he took occafion one night to
run
to him,
carrying away
with him
a
principal Cacique. When' he was come
ro
Al–
varado,
he informed him of the fmall number that was with
Almagro,
and that the
Curact:U
which
were with
him
were defirous
to
revolt, and take
his
part, and
co
ferve him ; the like Example he a!fured him, that the people of that Kingdom
were inclinable
to
follow, undertaking co
hi:.ing
them
all
under his Dominion and
Obedience, and in the mean time
to
guide him to the Camp of
Alm11.gro,
where
he might eauly furprize, and cake him without much oppolicion. Though
Alva–
rado
was well pleafed with the report and propofals of
Philip,
yet he thought no(
fit
to follow
his
counfel, having a more advantageous profpea of fucceeding bec–
ter by another method; for he was jealous of this
Indian>
who having been falfe,
and perjured in the evidence
h~
had given againfi
A~ahualpa,
he could not believe
that
he
would ever prove
faithfull
to
him;
for this Traytor had
falily
fworn, that
Atahualpa
defigned to Mailicre the
Spaniards;
upon which tefiimony Sentence of
Death was paffed upon him :
Bue
to be fhort
in
this fiory ;
an
interview
was
a~reed
upon benyeen
Don P_edro de A_Lvarado,
and
i!on Diego de Almagro,
and <JCCOr–
dmgly
they met
m
the Plams of
Rivecp1impa,
whICh the
Spaniards
call
Riobamba:>
where both Squadrons' ere dra\vn up, and remained
in
a poll:ore
to
engJ.gein
Bartel ; but
when they came near to make the on-fet both fides we
re touched
with
a
natural fenfe of Bloud, and proximity of
Allian~e,
being almofi
all
of the
Coumrey
9f
Eftremenos,
_fo
that the common Souldiers, without permiffion or Or–
ders of .their Genera!s, mixed ogether
in
common difcourfe, offering
to
each othe
Cond1t1ohs and
At~1cles
of Peace and Amity, as it hath at other times happened
between the Sould1ers of
[uli111
Ct£.{ar
and
Pompey,
and of
Pctrefrl-I
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