545 / 1060
BooK
II.
_
R~yal
Gommentariet.
Indian
Men and
W
ornen for fervice, which were
for~ed
or preifed co attend
th~
Camp. and which finding themfelves free, and at liberty, ran away, and fl
to the
Spaniards.
As
to
the fine Linen
artd
Cloth' little
~ppeared,_
for
~}Je
In
,_
am,
rather than be troubled .with
too
great
bag~a&e,
burnt
1t ;
and
h~ew1fe
made
away with the Gold and Silver, and
conc~ale.d
it
~
fuch manner,,as
1t
never afcer
, came to light ; of all
w
~ich
A/fm1gro
~ave mtell1~e~ ~o
the
G~vern~ur,
and
of the fuccers of
ti1e
rwo B-atteJs, and
d1f
patched his Advices by
Indians
_v-.
horn he
frnt \\ it
h hisLetters:
Ans
a1fo that
Don Pedro. de ..Alvarad?
was on
~is
Journey
fowards
Caz.coto
make him a
vmt,
that
fo
he imght accordingly provide for his
reception.
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xv.
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The
Governour
dep~rts
fro11l
Cozc
to
111eet
Alvarado;
he
fees
him
a11d
pays
hini the
Money
according
to
agree–
ment.
T
t-I
E
Coverndur
Pifilrro
having
received intel1igence of the loiS of
the
Men
and Horfe,
which
were killed
by
the Souldiers
of
.!f2..!!i~q11i:t,
was verf
i:riuch
troubled, efieeming it
of
ill
conf€quence
for th
e Spaniardt
co
be
baffied, or
the reputation which
they had
gain€!d_, to fuffer and be
impair.edin the opinion
of
the
Jndiam
;
but there being no
reqled~.
for. what was
pafr, hoc onely
patience,
he
enc.cmraged his Souldiers, and advifed them
to
proceed mofe warily for the
fucure ·
And in regard he was advife;d that
Alvarado
was marching towards
Couo,
he was
delirous to
prevent him, and fave
him
the trouble
6f
a long
J
outney ; and thet€–
fore
t6
cut matters !hort,
he
provided to make him the payment for which
A!fJ1d–
gro
had agreed, and
witn
that to perfuade him to return ; for though he
frred
w
fee him,
yet
it
might
be
inconvenient,
and
caufe fotne diforders to have three
Gcvernours, as in reality there would be within that Jurifdietion. For thefe
Go~
'V'ernours, when
they
were poor, might p9ffibly agree in co-ordinate rule each
.
:With
other~
but being rich and powerfull, and
in
a conditibn
of
Sovereignty,.·
which admits of no equal, and perhaps of no Secortd,
they
could not long con-–
tinue Peace, and a Brotherly Alliance ; the which difcord cauted by Ambition,
\vas the Original of all
the
misfortunes and fatal calamities which befell them'
as
will appear
ih
the fequeI
of
this Hifiory.
On
this confideration the
Governour,
that he
might
hafien the di(patch and return of
Alvarado,
refolved to
go
and meet
him as far as the Valley of
P
achaGamac
;
fo that he might neither
travel
at too far
a dift.ance froin the Sear-coaQ, and
mighr
excufe
him
from a
Journey
of two hun..
<?red
and
forty Leagues, as the going would be from
Pachacamlltc
to
GoutJ,
and
the
:eturn
ba~k ag~in
to
that place ; and
belides~
he
was
not
Willing
that
he
f}_lould
fee
rhe Imperial
City,
and
t-h~
Grandeur and Riches thereof, left the temptations of
rhat Wealth fhould caufo alteration:> and a breach of rbe Atticles agreed ; and
~herefore
he was
impatient
untill he faw them agajn ratified and confftmed.
As
to
the Ehquipage for his Journey, he took the opinion and fenfe of his Erothers,
and or er Officers of his Army ; recommending in the mean
rim~
the Perfon of
the
lnct1t
untG
their care,
and
all other matters which were neceffary
co
conferve
their Peace ctnd league with the
Indian
1.
And
in
order thereunto he difcoutfed
with the
Inca,
and told
him,
that
it
was c-Onvenient for
him
to
ab~nt
himfelf
for
~ome
days, whilfi: he could make a
Jou~ney
to
the Valley of
Pdchacam11c,
for per–
fbrmance of
fom~
agreements
mad~
with the
Spaniards,
who were lardy come
into thofe Cotmtnes; on confirrnatmn of whiGh the Articles made between rhe
lndia?u
and
Spitniards
did
l~UGb ~pend-·
which
fu~uld
lie fa .thfully complied\ ith
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