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~OOK

Il.

Royal

Commentaries.

any occafion was offered to

.make

mention of

him~

have heard feveral Gertt:'Je–

men remember him with great praife of his Goodnefs and Verrue ; and fome of

them fpecified and recounted the kindneffes

an~

.good

offic~

he had {hewn to chem

particular: And whereas he was very familiarly acquamted.,

and

converfant

my Father's houfe · I have been an Ear-witnefs

divers pa!fages relatin(7

his

good Nature, and' to the generofity of his great Soul

One of which was this;

That in their Voyage

Pertt

his people fuffered much for want of freili Water ;

that when they came to

Tumpiz.,

chey became

very

fickly, and many

them

were

weakned by the Calenture Fever, by reafon of the Thirft they had endu–

red, that they were not able

leave the S.bip and

Lan~

on · the

ilior~.

Where–

fore

Alvarado

himfelf landed from the Ship, and provided them wHh

acer ;

and though he had fuffered

much by

Thirfi

as any of them, yet he would not:

talk

a drop of W acer untill he was a!fured chat the Sick had drank, and

all

the

Ships-company had been provided. Many other generous

Acts

of this nature

were

related of this wortny Gentleman ; though

Gomara

in his Writings gives

different charaeter of him, which he mull: have received from fome of thofe (as

ther~

were many) who were envious and emulous of

his

Vercues and Fortune

And though it was impoffible to fupprefs the fame of his Exploits and Adven–

tures,

whim

were notorious to all die World , yet at leafi

they

endeavoured to

eclipfe and difparage the glory of them. Of which this Authour being fenfible,

did

part excufe and clear hirnfelf of the falficy of thofe reports which were gi–

ven; and

concludes the

19z

d Chap

ter of his Book with thefe words:

He that

Joth -well;,

and

not prai[ed, lives

among.ft

bad

Neighbours,

&c.

And this he faid, be–

caufe he knew that

all efiates

ofMen

, there are

forne

who are envious and flan–

derers, and unworthy the fociety of good Men,

being

inclined

[peak

a lye, ra–

ther than to utter truth

commendations of another.

'An~

now we

fhall

return

to the Affairs of

Peru,

and to the TranfaCtions therein fince the departure of

Don

l'~dro

Alvarado

from thence.

CH A· P.

XVII.

Of the

Found~tion

of the

City

los

Reyes,

and of the

City

Truxillo.

O foon as the Governour had difmllfed

Don Pedro de Alvarado,

he immediately

gave notice thereof to his Partner

Don Diego

Almagro,

then at

Co~co

and

therewith fent a gteat number of thofe Gentlemen which came with

Alv~rado

to be entertained

the Service of the Prince

Manco Inca,

and his Brothers

[oh~

and.

Gonfalo 1:iptrro,

defiring them to be ferviceable

the

Inca,

and kind ;o the

lndzani;

form regard the

Inca

furrendred himfelf voluntarily, arid of his own ac–

co~d,

he would not have him lofe that confidence and affettion which he had con–

ceived of the

Spaniards

in the mean time the Governour remained in the Valley

Pachacamac,

with defign to build a City near the Sea-coall: for the better advan–

ca~e

Trad~

and Commerce : And having confidered upon this matter with his

:friends, he d1fpatched feveral perfons experienced in Maritime affairs to difcover

on both

~des.

where was the moft convenient place for a Port or

H~bour.

length bemg mformed, that four Leagues to the North of

Pachacamac

there was

ave~

fafe

Port right againfl: the Valley of

Rimac;

which when the 'Governour

had v1ew_ed and furveyed, he

tranfpl~nte~

the _people which had begun ro fertle a

Colony m the Valley of

Sauf[a,

which

thrrty Leagues from

Rimac

within the

· Land, unto that convenient place where he founded the City of

/01

Reyes

in the

year

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