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" he marched
to
~itu,
having in that Journey endured much cold and hunoer .
:: the new
hereof a
ffetted the i_ninds of
Pir;arro
and
Almagro
\
ith jealoufie
~nd
,, fear. .
At
leng~h
he
fo.ldthe
S~11ps,
Guns,
&c.
fo~
two
hun~red
thoufand pieces
of Eight; \\'hICh h(.;,vmg received, he returned nch and triumphant umo
Hua–
<c
tima/lan.
Afier which he built ten or twelve Ships, one Gally, and other
Pin–
,, naces which were light, .and rowed \.\ell
with
the Ore, with defign to
make
<c
a
Voyage
to
the
Efpeeeria,
and
a
farther difcovery towards the CA:pe
of
ValLenM
" call
0
d by fome
California.
In
the year
i
>
38i
Friar
Marcu1
ae
Nipt,
and
othe~<
Francifcan
Friars travelled by Land through the Countrey of
Culhuacan,
at
lea.fl:'' three hundred Leagues
to
the
W
efiward, and much farther than the
Spaniard!
«
of
Xali."tCco
had as yet difcovered , and returned with high commendations of
· ·
'' the Countries, and of the Riches and good
Air
of
Si6ola,
and other
Cities
'' Upon the relation of thefe Friars, they refolved once
to
fend
an
Army by
Se~
'' to thofe pans under the Command of
Don
Afztonio de Mendofa,
Vice-king of
New
''
Spain,
and
Don
Fermmdo Cortes
Marquis
de Valle,
who was Captain-General of
'' New
Spain,
and
fir({
Difcoverer of the Coafr along the Sourh-Sea; but not
a–
c-:
greeing upon Articles, they quarrelled, and
fo
Cortes
returned
imo
Spain,
and
"
A!varridQ
"'as fent in his place
with
the Ships before mentioned ;
for
which the
cc
Money, as aforefaid, was paid him.
Alvttrado
failed, as
I
conceive, with
his
cc
Fleet
to the Port of
Navidad,
and thence travelled by Land to
Mexico,
where
'' he agreed with the Vice-king upon an adventure to
Sibola,
without any
regard
" to die gratitude he
O\.\
ed
to
Cortes,
who
was
the Authour of
all his fortune.
" In
his return from
Mexico,
he
paifed through
Xalixco,
·
to
fubdue and reduce the
'' people of that Kingdom, who had made an InforreC!ion, and were in defiance
'' againft the
SpaniardJ.
At
length he came to
Efat!an,
where
Diego de
L~pe~
was
'' making War againfi the Rebels, and joyning
his
Forces with him, they fiormed
" the
Indians,
'
ho had fortified them[elves on the corner of a Rock with fuch
" refolution, that having killed thirty of them, they put the refl: umo flight ; and
" having climbed up into a high and narrow Rock, many of their Horfes came
'' tumbling do'A
n
the Precipice:
And
whereas one of them came fliding down
" jufl: upon the Horfe of
Alvarado,
he, to avoid him, alighted, intending to give
" him
way, and fave himfelf;
but
the Horfe in his
fall
firiking on the edge of
a
'' Rock, turned his
fall
jufi on
Alvarado,
and carried him headlong wirh
him
· " down to the bottom; the which misfortune happened on Midfummer-day, m
" the year
1
>
41,
and
in
a
few days after died of che bruifes he had received
at
''
Efat!an,
which
is
a place-about three hundred Leagues difiant from
Huatimallan;
" he
conferved his Senfes, and the judgment of
a
Chrifrian, untill
the
Jafi ;
for
'' being asked where
his
chief pain was,
he
anfwered,
in
his
Soul: As to other
" matters, he was a Man of a free and chearfull temper. Thus far are the Words
of
Gomara
;
and at the
end
of the
fame
Chapter he adds, ''
That
he
left
no Efiate.,
" nor did there remain any Memory or Relicks of
him,
unlefs what is before re–
,, cited, and
a
Daughcer which
he
had by an
INlian
Woman, "'hich was
afcer–
" \ ards Married to
Don Francifco de
la Cueva
;
and
fo
he concludes that Chapter.
This
Relation is
the
very fame which is commonly current
in
Pern,
with all
the
circum!l:ances thernof; on ely they differ in this, that one fays it
was a
Horfe that
tumbled upon
him;
and the other, that
it
ivas
a
Rock,
which
was thrown down
by the
fall
of a Horfe;
'ris
probable that it might
Be
the one
as
well as
the~
ther, and that the Horfe and Stones might come all rowling down together.
Befides, I was
acquainted with
his
Daughter, and ' ith one of his Sons, who
was
a
Mongrel or
Mejli:ui
(as we call them) born of an
Indian
Woman, named
Don
Diego
de
Alvarado,
a
Son worthy and not degenerating from
a
Father of
Cuch
great renown, for he refembled his Father in all
his
Vertues; was a true
pattern
"
of
him
in all
circumfl:ances, nor did he difter from
him
in the very
misfortune
of
hi Death ; for ha
1
ing
with other
Spaniard1
made his efcape from the Batte!
of
Che/qui Inca,
he
\:\,;as
afterwards killed by the
Jrrdia-ttJ
in
the purfuit,
as
we
!hall
here-
'
after relate in its due place.
Thus
nded the Llfe of this worthy Cavalier
Don Pedro
de
Alvarado,
he wa
Kmght of the Habit
of
t.
Jago,
and one of the moll: dexterous
with
his
Lance of
a
y
that p {fed into the
ew
W
01
ld. His unhappy Death\
as
greatly
lamented
at
Co co
by all tho e who had been
hi
followers
in
that Empie; many
Mafie
were
faid
for
his
oul at that time, and
for
[everal
years afrerwards; I
my
(elf
have
been
p
1
eot ac
forne, '
hich
were
fiud for him, when I was the e.
henfoever
any